Most out-patient care is delivered by doctors, dentists and medical auxiliaries working in their own practices.
For example, there are about five times as many out-patient visits as in-patient ones.
The company said the majority of sales of the drug are from out-patient prescriptions for hemophilia patients, not hospital use.
Detainees are offered annual physicals, in-patient and out-patient treatment, and interpreter services.
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Garland received a cut of the thumb, was afterwards made an out-patient of the infirmary, but the wound mortified, produced lock-jaw, and death ensued.
He said the government had also now cut the number of people waiting a long time for an out-patient appointment by 80, 000 from its peak.
Add diagnostic error in the emergency room and walk-in clinics to error in the out-patient offices of medicine and you have more than 200 million errors.
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board said out-patient clinics at all its hospitals in Bridgend, Swansea and Neath Port Talbot have been cancelled for Friday and Saturday.
By 2005 it is planned to have a maximum out-patient waiting time of three months, and a maximum waiting time for surgery of six months for all procedures.
He explained they already treated all in-patients in individual rooms without exposing them to other patients and out-patient clinics were set up so individuals did not have direct contact with each other.
Physiotherapy and out-patient departments were built in 1958.
The First Minister said the most recent figures show that the number of people waiting over 18 months for a first out-patient appointment fell by nearly 40 per cent, the lowest level since April 2001.
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Dr. RUTH BERGGREN (Associate Professor, Adult Infectious Diseases, Tulane Medical Center and Charity Hospital): Sitting in the HIV out-patient clinic, taking care of an uninsured man who's coughing, I cannot get a smear on him to diagnose tuberculosis in the city of New Orleans.
When the real work was put in to discover what it would cost to deliver - and what it would actually deliver the patient - it turned out be not such a good idea after all.
The patient's out-of-pocket expenses will be capped at the difference between the deductible and the cash put into the account.
"So in all of that, let's not have a message going out that patient safety was compromised - it wasn't, " Mr Poots added.
When they carried out a post-mortem on the patient who died, they found some of the brain tissue that had been dying off through Alzheimer's had started to rejuvenate.
Paramedics have said that the level of threat against them has led to a situation where one of the crew acts as a look-out while the other attends the patient.
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HMOs refer to the proportion of premiums they pay out for patient care as their "medical-loss ratio"--a chilling choice of words.
While in non-urgent cases the system is slick and convenient, it does cut out the face-to-face interaction between patient and nurse.
Sometimes, in fact, patient inaction and waiting-out anxiety is the right protocol.
Binoche - whose film Certified Copy is out on Friday - won the best supporting actress Oscar in 1997 for The English Patient.
Further, these one-on-one scenarios improve decision-making between patient and physician and take out the need for insurance and proof of citizenship.
The director of nutrition at King's, Rick Wilson, says this simple screening check should be carried out every time a patient goes to see a GP - particularly for older people.
The RCM said if action was taken it would fall short of an all-out strike as they did not want to harm patient care, but it could include working to rule.
If your patient-facing software has bugs or is out of date, it leaves a bad impression.
Former Newcastle GP Dr Dave Moor was investigated further by the GMC despite his acquittal following allegations he carried out the "mercy-killing" of a terminally-ill patient.
Last month, UnitedHealth Group bought Humedica, which aggregates information on large patient populations for comparison purposes, and ferrets out at-risk patients.
The authors blame "cookbook medicine, " a fixed approach to diagnosis that focuses on a patient's chief complaint and ruling out the worse-case scenario.
The 330-patient study InterMune just unveiled was designed to find out if IPF sufferers who took Actimmune saw their lung capacity decrease less than those who did not take the drug.
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