"frequent patient" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a person who visits a doctor, healthcare professional, or a medical facility frequently. For example, "The frequent patient visited the doctor for their annual checkup."
That allowed for more frequent patient monitoring and treatment.
The researchers defined a frequent patient as one who made four or more visits a year.
Early and frequent patient mobilization substantially mitigates risk for post-intensive care syndrome and long-term functional impairment.
Dash describes the discovery as "humbling," adding that he now believes that successful prevention and treatment of chronic cardiometabolic diseases "hinges upon frequent patient engagement from the care team". Making that happen required some creativity and letting go of the idea that all visits had to happen in person.
Estimation of the National Marrow Donor Program's Be The Match Registry 8/8 (HLA-A, -B, -C, and -DRB1) high-resolution (HR) unrelated donor (URD) match rate was determined in a prior study for each of the 4 most frequent patient race/ethnic groups in the United States: white (WH), Hispanic (HIS), Asian/Pacific Islander (API), and African American (AFA).
While they found that doctors who took care of older or sicker patients tended to rank higher, presumably because of more frequent patient follow-up, the researchers also discovered that primary care practitioners who cared for underinsured, minority and non-English-speaking patients tended to have lower quality rankings than their counterparts.
Quality of sleep is negatively affected with frequent patient-ventilator asynchronies and more specifically with modes of ventilation.
Molecular typing using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis indicated frequent patient-to-patient transmission (13).
However, the efficacy trials do tend to underscore the importance of frequent patient-provider contact (i.e., high-intensity interventions), as revealed by the task force's review.
The IPF Care Patient Support Program IPF Caree) provides support, education, and empowerment to patients receiving pirfenidone for the treatment of IPF in Europe, through the provision of frequent, patient-managed discussions with specialist IPF nurses.
However this study did not include an inactive manipulation intervention and thus it is possible that the results are influenced by intervention bias as a result of the more frequent patient-practitioner contact in the group who received spinal manipulation.
