"return to clinic" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone returning to a medical facility or place of treatment. For example, "After the initial appointment, the doctor advised the patient to return to clinic in one week for further tests."
They noted that patients who did not return to clinic may have received clinical care in the camps or shifted to other programs.
Don't wait until you return to clinic to start thinking about your future clinical specialty.
Patients were instructed to return to clinic for routine follow-up at 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after enrollment.
Main Outcome Measures: Patients were asked to chart pain on visual analog scale (VAS) for 7 days and to return to clinic for 1- and 3-month follow-ups.
She is cagey when asked how long she intends to stay on the job, making clear that she intends to return to clinic work in the not-too-distant future.
However, two months later quantities of G. vaginalis, Leptotrichia/Sneathia spp. and A. vaginae increased but she did not return to clinic for further examination.
For those found alive but did not return to clinic we imputed time from last visit (before dropout) to last visit after outreach from observed data, matching in a similar manner to that described for the death date above.
Although active follow-up of patients who fail to return to clinic has not been made mandatory due to resource constraints, more than half of the facilities in the national programme are consistently attempting to trace these patients through community visits.
However, a recent report from four public sector antiretroviral therapy clinics in northern Malawi during 2004 2006 used patient tracing (including home visits) and found that 50% of those not attending clinic for 3 or more months had died, indicating that high rates of death among patients who do not return to clinic after HAART initiation are also currently being found in other settings[11].
