outpatient, inpatient, clinic, hospital beds available Negative Pressure Rooms

How Hospitals Use Negative Pressure Rooms2015/10/15 - A negative pressure isolation room is commonly used for patients with airborne infections. For example, a patient with active tuberculosis, a disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis, will be placed in a ...



2015/10/15 - A negative pressure isolation room is commonly used for patients with airborne infections. For example, a patient with active tuberculosis, a disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis, will be placed in a ...

Chart showing inpatient hospital beds available in different countries, according to OECD data.

Example from the US reveals concerns over hospital bed shortages amid the #coronavirus pandemic: http://u.afp.com/3SSb

outpatient 
noun [C] 門診病人
a person who goes to a hospital for treatment, but who does not stay any nights there:
an outpatient clinic
Compare inpatient. 住院病人


clinicn.

1. A facility, often associated with a hospital or medical school, that is devoted to the diagnosis and care of outpatients.
2. A medical establishment run by several specialists working in cooperation and sharing the same facilities.
3. A group session offering counsel or instruction in a particular field or activity: a vocational clinic; a tennis clinic.
4. 1. A seminar or meeting of physicians and medical students in which medical instruction is conducted in the presence of the patient, as at the bedside.
   2. A place where such instruction occurs.
   3. A class or lecture of medical instruction conducted in this manner.

[French clinique, from Greek klīnikē (tekhnē), clinical (method), feminine of klīnikos, from klīnē, couch, bed. See clinandrium.]