Health Care Costs

"Health Care Costs" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The actual costs of providing services related to the delivery of health care, including the costs of procedures, therapies, and medications. It is differentiated from HEALTH EXPENDITURES, which refers to the amount of money paid for the services, and from fees, which refers to the amount charged, regardless of cost.

Descriptor ID	D017048
MeSH Number(s)	N03.219.151.400 N05.300.375
Concept/Terms	Health Care Costs Health Care Costs Cost, Health Care Costs, Health Care Health Care Cost Health Costs Cost, Health Costs, Health Health Cost Healthcare Costs Cost, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Healthcare Cost Medical Care Costs Medical Care Costs Costs, Medical Care Cost, Medical Care Medical Care Cost Treatment Costs Treatment Costs Cost, Treatment Costs, Treatment Treatment Cost

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Health Care Costs".

Health Care [N]
Health Care Economics and Organizations [N03]
Economics [N03.219]
Costs and Cost Analysis [N03.219.151]
Health Care Costs [N03.219.151.400]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Delivery of Health Care [N05.300]
Health Care Costs [N05.300.375]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Care Costs" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Care Costs" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 193 publications over 24 distinct years, with a maximum of 16 publications in 2010 and 2011 and 2016

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	0	1	1
1999	0	1	1
2002	1	0	1
2003	1	1	2
2004	2	3	5
2005	3	1	4
2006	3	2	5
2007	4	3	7
2008	4	2	6
2009	2	3	5
2010	6	10	16
2011	8	8	16
2012	8	6	14
2013	3	7	10
2014	4	3	7
2015	8	6	14
2016	9	7	16
2017	5	7	12
2018	8	2	10
2019	7	8	15
2020	4	8	12
2021	3	5	8
2022	1	3	4
2023	1	1	2

Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Care Costs" by people in Profiles.

Wolk CB, Wilkinson E, Livesey C, Oslin DW, Connolly KR, Smith-McLallen A, Press MJ. Impact of the collaborative care model on medical spending. Am J Manag Care. 2023 Oct; 29(10):499-502.

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Lin F, Wilson K, Kwong WJ, Abraham JA. Understanding the Effect of Osteoarthritis on Surgical Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Resource Utilization, and Costs Among Patients With Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumors. J Am Acad Orthop Surg Glob Res Rev. 2023 05 01; 7(5).

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Viayna E, Gehrie EA, Blanchette C, Meny GM, Noumsi G, Huber M, Runken MC. Red cell alloimmunization is associated with increased health care costs, longer hospitalizations, and higher mortality. Blood Adv. 2022 10 25; 6(20):5655-5658.

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Gowd AK, Agarwalla A, Beck EC, Rosas S, Waterman BR, Romeo AA, Liu JN. Prediction of total healthcare cost following total shoulder arthroplasty utilizing machine learning. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2022 Dec; 31(12):2449-2456.

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Rosano GMC, Seferovic P, Savarese G, Spoletini I, Lopatin Y, Gustafsson F, Bayes-Genis A, Jaarsma T, Abdelhamid M, Miqueo AG, Piepoli M, Tocchetti CG, Ristic AD, Jankowska E, Moura B, Hill L, Filippatos G, Metra M, Milicic D, Thum T, Chioncel O, Ben Gal T, Lund LH, Farmakis D, Mullens W, Adamopoulos S, Bohm M, Norhammar A, Bollmann A, Banerjee A, Maggioni AP, Voors A, Solal AC, Coats AJS. Impact analysis of heart failure across European countries: an ESC-HFA position paper. ESC Heart Fail. 2022 10; 9(5):2767-2778.

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Lind J, Persson S, Vincent J, Lindenfalk B, Oliver BJ, Smith AD, Andersson G?re B. Contact patterns and costs of multiple sclerosis in the Swedish healthcare system-A population-based quantitative study. Brain Behav. 2022 06; 12(6):e2582.

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Larson S, Nemoianu A, Lawrence DF, Troup MA, Gionfriddo MR, Pousti B, Sun H, Riaz F, Wagner ES, Chrones L, Touya M. Characterizing primary care for patients with major depressive disorder using electronic health records of a US-based healthcare provider. J Affect Disord. 2022 03 01; 300:377-384.

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Acho C, Morita Y, Fernandez V, Safwan M, Galusca D, Abouljoud M, Yoshida A, El-Bashir J, Nagai S. Immediate Postoperative Extubation Decreases Pulmonary Complications in Liver Transplant Patients. Transplantation. 2021 09 01; 105(9):2018-2028.

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Epstein D, Bootun R, Diop M, Ortega-Ortega M, Lane TRA, Davies AH. Cost-effectiveness analysis of current varicose veins treatments. J Vasc Surg Venous Lymphat Disord. 2022 03; 10(2):504-513.e7.

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Abe T, Olanipekun T, Igwe J, Khoury M, Busari O, Musonge-Effoe J, Valery E, Egbuche O, Mather P, Ghali J. Trends, Predictors and Outcomes of Ischemic Stroke Among Patients Hospitalized with Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2021 Oct; 30(10):106005.

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