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Outpatients

Known as: Out-patient, Out patients, Outpatient 
A patient who visits a health care facility for diagnosis or treatment without spending the night. Sometimes called a day patient.
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1991
1991
Cost effectiveness of isotretinoin
OBJECTIVE To determine the relative cost effectiveness of long term rotational antibiotics and isotretinoin for moderate/severe… 
Review
1990
Review
1990
Formal Geriatric Assessment Instruments and the Care of Older General Medical Outpatients
To improve identification of cognitive, affective, gait, and nutritional problems in older medical outpatients, nonphysician… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
The substitution of sucrose polyester for dietary fat in obese, hypercholesterolemic outpatients.
Our aim was to determine the effects of the substitution of sucrose polyester (SPE) for dietary fat in a 16-week outpatient study… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Differentiating male and female alcoholics from psychiatric outpatients: the MacAndrew and Rosenberg Alcoholism Scales.
The concurrent validity of the MacAndrew and Rosenberg alcoholism scales was investigated in an age matched sample of 190 male… 
1981
1981
Ten-year follow-up of a representative sample of London heroin addicts: clinic attendance, abstinence and mortality.
Summary Home Office records were used to trace the current status of a representative sample of 128 of the patients who in… 
Review
1977
Review
1977
Chiropractors and the treatment of back pain.
In a survey of British chiropractors and their practices, it was found that the majority of their patients attended for back pain… 
1971
1971
Some effects of a white institution on black psychiatric outpatients.
Previous studies have suggested that white people (particularly white authority figures) may have a deleterious impact on black… 
1965
1965
The significance of growing bone islands.
LITTLE INFORMATION concerning the etiology and significance of compact bone islands is available in the radiological literature… 
Review
1962
Review
1962
Psychiatric referrals from medical and surgical wards.
A survey was made of all new referrals for psychiatric advice from the medical and surgical wards of a general teaching hospital… 
1947
1947
Dilantin treatment for behavior problem children with abnormal electroencephalograms.
A group of behavior problem children with abnormal electroencephalographic findings were treated with dilantin. None of the…