Dylan Edwards (asker) Nov 7, 2009:

Good - yes, that sounds fine to me.

Gerry Vickers Nov 7, 2009:

I think you are splitting hairs :) Discharge to home/outpatients care is the usual phrase.

Dylan Edwards (asker) Nov 7, 2009:

This seems to be a particular kind of discharge/release. Perhaps one could say something on the lines of "(assignment to) outpatient status/care".

Slavomir BELIS Nov 4, 2009:

From the text provided we do not know if he took up the option or not or whether he was discharged or not. We know that something allowed/enabled/made it possible to discharge him temporarily. But as a native speaker of Slovak I would say that he was discharged once. I would not think that he was discharged more than once. Otherwise, it would read umožňoval prechodné demisie.

Gerry Vickers Nov 4, 2009:

Dylan - I understand 'umožňoval' in this case to be a sort of ongoing process (as the disease is ongoing), hence the imperfective, even though he may have only been discharged once. Alternatively the condition for his discharge may have been made possible and he didn't take up the option so the possibility is still there... :)

Martina Stryckova Nov 4, 2009:

i was just guessing. discharge makes sense.

Slavomir BELIS Nov 4, 2009:

remisia I am not sure about "remisia" as it means "dočasná úľava choroby v priebehu liečby", which does not make sense in this context. So "temporary remission of a disease" yes, but "temporary remission of a patient" probably not.

Misha Smid Nov 4, 2009:

This is what my doctor said:
..ascites levels fluctuated and it allowed to temporarily discharge the patient to home care.

Misha Smid Nov 4, 2009:

I will ask my medical advisor what he thinks.

Gerry Vickers Nov 4, 2009:

discharge is what I initially thought as it comes up quite often, but can you discharge a patient in such a condition?