patient
person who takes a medical treatment or is subject of a case study
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Summary
patient is a role[1]. patient draws 2,116 Wikipedia views per month (role category, ranking #26 of 143).[2]
Key Facts
- Main regulatory text: Patient Act (2014:821)[3]
- Subclass of: sick person[4], customer[5]
- Commons category: Patients[6]
- Said to be the same as: Q12363262[7]
- Topic's main category: Category:Patient[8]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[9], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[11]
- Partially coincident with: mental health consumer[12]
- Has characteristic: health problem[13]
- Main Wikidata property: P3205[14]
- Equivalent class: https://schema.org/Patient[15]
- Different from: patience[16], patient[17]
- Uses: health care[18]
- Female form of label: patiente[19], пациентка[20], pacientino[21], jimalädan[22], patiënte[23], Patientin[24], pacientka[25], pacientė[26]
- Male form of label: pacientulo[27], himalädan[28], Patient[29], pacient[30], pacientas[31]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Health Data Space[32]
Why It Matters
patient has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] patient is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]