öppenvård
Swedish
Alternative forms
- öppen vård
Etymology
Compound if öppen (“open”) + vård (“care”). In medical sense attested since 1955. In punishment sense attested since 1964.
Noun
öppenvård c
- (medicine) outpatient care at hospital or clinic
- Antonyms: sluten vård, slutenvård (“inpatient”)
- (law) a type of probation where the condemned is allowed to live at home during treatment
- Swedish Prison and Probation Service (c. 2022), “Institution eller öppenvård”, in Kontraktsvård: “Ett program på behandlingshem innebär att klienten bor på hemmet under behandlingsperioden. I öppenvård bor den dömde hemma under vårdtiden. [A program in a treatment home means that the client lives at the facility during the treatment period. In outpatient care, the convicted person lives at home during the care period.]”
Declension
| Declension of öppenvård | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | öppenvård | öppenvården | — | — |
| Genitive | öppenvårds | öppenvårdens | — | — |
References
- öppenvård in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- öppenvård in Svensk ordbok (SO)