Talk:outpatient

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outpatient

Rfd-sense:

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to outpatients

Just an attributive use of the noun? --Dan Polansky 17:16, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Fix and keep. I imagine that for most speakers, "outpatient procedure" (for example) is an attributive use of the noun, but google books:"procedure is outpatient" gets three relevant hits — not overwhelming, but IMHO enough to meet CFI as an adjective. (And google:"very outpatient" even pulls up graded uses, but I'm not sure if any are durably archived.) But, our definition could use work. —Ruakh_TALK 17:41, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Per Ruakh's cites, keep (or, pointlessly, bring to RFV) and fix to something like "(of a procedure in a hospital) Not requiring a night's stay.".​—msh210℠ 18:34, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Keep widespread use. Cited in non-attributive use IMO. DCDuring TALK 19:40, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

 Done Thanks; this should have been a rfv, in retrospect. --Dan Polansky 10:09, 7 July 2009 (UTC)