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Patient

The patient (aegrotus, patiens) – the patient with any disease of people.

Allocate:

  • The ambulatory – which received medical care at home or in policlinic (out-patient clinic) on reception; is a statistical unit of work of policlinic (out-patient clinic);
  • The patient who left a hospital – written out from a hospital after the medical care provided to it, or the dead in it during this reporting period; represents a statistical unit in hospital;
  • The patient infectious – the patient with an infectious disease, regardless of the degree of threat to possible infection with a contagium for people around.
 
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