assessment

Your new sentence only talks about patients coming for treatment. Patients can also come to the clinic for diagnosis or assessment, including after-treatment follow-up/assessmment.

What does `assessment' mean here?

Please explain it.

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Originally Posted by user_gary

Your new sentence only talks about patients coming for treatment. Patients can also come to the clinic for diagnosis or assessment, including after-treatment follow-up/assessmment.

What does `assessment' mean here?

Please explain it.

[Source : http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/as...33-clinic.html ]

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It means "check up".

Another synonym for assessment is 'evaluation'.

A patient's condition can be assessed/evaluated. Whether or not there is any need for (further) treatment, tests, etc. might be based on such an evaluation.

I'd rather say evaluation than check up.

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Originally Posted by Jason72

I'd rather say evaluation than check up.

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Why? Can you give your reasons?;-)

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Originally Posted by Harry Smith

Why? Can you give your reasons?;-)

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:-? It simply sounds better to me... :-|