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The word '''[[wikt:patient|patient]]''' originally meant 'one who suffers'. This English noun comes from the [[Latin]] word ''patiens'', the [[present participle]] of the [[deponent verb]], [[wikt:patior|patior]], meaning 'I am suffering,' and akin to the [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] verb πάσχειν (= ''paskhein'', to suffer) and its cognate noun [[wikt:πάθος|πάθος]] (= [[wikt:pathos|pathos]]).
This language has been construed as meaning that the role of patients is to passively accept and tolerate the suffering and treatments prescribed by the healthcare providers, without engaging in [[Shared decision-making in medicine|shared decision-making]] about their care.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=1999-06-26|title=Do we need a new word for patients?
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[[File:Crazy Love.jpg|thumb|A mother spends days sitting with her son, a hospital patient in Mali]]
An '''inpatient''' (or '''in-patient'''), on the other hand, is "admitted" to stay in a hospital overnight or for an indeterminate time, usually, several days or weeks, though in some extreme cases, such as with [[coma]] or [[persistent vegetative state]], patients can stay in hospitals for years, sometimes until [[death]]. Treatment provided in this [[fashion]] is called [[inpatient care]]. The admission to the hospital involves the production of an [[admission note]]. The leaving of the hospital is officially termed ''discharge'', and involves a corresponding [[discharge note]], and sometimes an assessment process to consider ongoing needs. In the [[English NHS]] this may take the form of "Discharge to Assess" - where the assessment takes place after the patient has gone home. <ref>{{cite news |title=Unpaid
[[Misdiagnosis]] is the leading cause of [[medical error]] in outpatient facilities. When the U.S. [[National Academy of Medicine|Institute of Medicine]]’s groundbreaking 1999 report, ''[[To Err Is Human (report)|To Err Is Human]]'', found up to 98,000 hospital patients die from preventable medical errors in the U.S. each year,<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Kohn |editor1-first=Linda T. |editor2-last=Corrigan |editor2-first=Janet M. |editor3-last=Donaldson |editor3-first=Molla S. |title=To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System |date=2000 |publisher=National Academy Press |location=Washington D.C. |doi=10.17226/9728 |pmid=25077248 |isbn=0-309-06837-1 |url=https://www.nap.edu/read/9728/chapter/1 |language=en|author1=Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Quality of Health Care in America |last2=Kohn |first2=L. T. |last3=Corrigan |first3=J. M. |last4=Donaldson |first4=M. S. }}</ref> early efforts focused on inpatient safety.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bates |first1=David W. |last2=Singh |first2=Hardeep |title=Two Decades Since: An Assessment Of Progress And Emerging Priorities In Patient Safety |journal=Health Affairs |date=November 2018 |volume=37 |issue=11 |pages=1736–1743 |doi=10.1377/hlthaff.2018.0738|pmid=30395508 |doi-access=free }}</ref> While patient safety efforts have focused on inpatient hospital settings for more than a decade, medical errors are even more likely to happen in a [[doctor’s office]] or [[outpatient clinic]] or center.
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