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clinic
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thumb|Military Policlinic in Legionowo, Poland
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
- Overview
- Function
- Large outpatient clinics
- Function
- Internationally
- Mobile clinics
- Types
- See also
- References
thumb|Military Policlinic in Legionowo, Poland
A clinic (or outpatient clinic or ambulatory care clinic) is a health facility that is primarily focused on the care of outpatients. Clinics can be privately operated or publicly managed and funded. They typically cover the primary care needs of populations in local communities, in contrast to larger hospitals which offer more specialized treatments and admit inpatients for overnight stays.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “clinic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.