A patient is a person for whom a hospital accepts responsibility for treatment and/or care. There are two categories of patient, admitted and non-admitted patients. Boarders are not patients.
Institutional health care
While the concept of a person for whom a service provider accepts responsibility for treatment or care is also applicable to non-institutional health care and to welfare services, different terminology is often used in these other care settings e.g. client, resident.
Implementation in Metadata Sets
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Patient