0 relating to or describing people being treated for an injury or illness who are able to walk, and who, when treated in a hospital, are usually not staying for the night: --
1 (of people being treated for an injury or illness) able to walk, and, when treated in a hospital, usually not staying for the night in a bed: --
We will soon be opening two new ambulatory care facilities.
She is completely ambulatory and will be home today.
When performed on an ambulatory basis in our institution, cost was comparable for the two techniques.
Our duration of follow-up is short and malignant ventricular arrhythmias were not seen in either group on 24 hrs ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring.
Two weeks later, the clinic's vice president for quality improvement in ambulatory services reviews the case as part of a random audit.
Circumambulatory/intra-ambulatory was considered (albeit briefly) but rejected as too unwieldy.
Finally, ambulatory surgery or accelerated discharge programs are not appropriate for all breast cancer patients.
A lot of attention is presently being focused on the necessity to create a comprehensive system for evaluating the performance of hospital and ambulatory services.
Salaries are low, forcing doctors (mostly in ambulatory care) to seek (often unorthodox) ways to supplement their incomes.
The independent variables for the regression include home monitoring adherence, underlying disease, ambulatory diagnostic group mapping variables, transplant type, and patient demographics.
