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 77 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2010

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2001	0	1	1
2002	1	1	2
2003	1	0	1
2004	1	3	4
2005	3	0	3
2006	2	2	4
2007	2	1	3
2008	4	1	5
2009	2	1	3
2010	5	6	11
2011	4	4	8
2012	4	4	8
2013	1	2	3
2015	3	1	4
2016	3	2	5
2017	1	1	2
2018	4	1	5
2019	0	1	1
2020	0	1	1
2021	0	3	3

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

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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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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Donnally CJ, Patel PD, Canseco JA, Shenoy K, Divi SN, Goz V, Arain AR, Vaccaro AR. Hepatitis C Virus Infection as a Predictor of Complications and Increased Costs Following Primary Lumbar Fusion Surgery. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2020 Aug 15; 45(16):E1020-E1025.

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Sivaganesan A, Chotai S, Parker SL, McGirt MJ, Devin CJ. Drivers of Variability in 90-Day Cost for Elective Laminectomy and Fusion for Lumbar Degenerative Disease. Neurosurgery. 2019 05 01; 84(5):1043-1049.

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Chotai S, Sivaganesan A, Parker SL, Sielatycki JA, Archer KR, Nian H, Stephens E, Aaronson OS, McGirt MJ, Devin CJ. Drivers of Variability in 90-day Cost for Primary Single-level Microdiscectomy. Neurosurgery. 2018 12 01; 83(6):1153-1160.

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Chotai S, Sivaganesan A, Parker SL, Sielatycki JA, McGirt MJ, Devin CJ. Drivers of Variability in 90-Day Cost for Elective Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion for Cervical Degenerative Disease. Neurosurgery. 2018 11 01; 83(5):898-904.

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Stephens BF, Khan I, Chotai S, Sivaganesan A, Devin CJ. Drivers of Cost in Adult Thoracolumbar Spine Deformity Surgery. World Neurosurg. 2018 Oct; 118:e206-e211.

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Chotai S, Sivaganesan A, Sielatycki JA, Archer KR, Call R, McGirt MJ, Devin CJ. Surgeon-Level Variability in Outcomes, Cost, and Comorbidity Adjusted-Cost for Elective Lumbar Decompression and Fusion. Neurosurgery. 2018 04 01; 82(4):506-515.

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Bonafede M, Sapra S, Shah N, Tepper S, Cappell K, Desai P. Direct and Indirect Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs Among Migraine Patients in the United States. Headache. 2018 May; 58(5):700-714.

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