"Hospital Charges" 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.
The prices a hospital sets for its services. HOSPITAL COSTS (the direct and indirect expenses incurred by the hospital in providing the services) are one factor in the determination of hospital charges. Other factors may include, for example, profits, competition, and the necessity of recouping the costs of uncompensated care.
| Descriptor ID |
D017722
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N03.219.262.300 N03.219.442.613
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| Concept/Terms |
Hospital Charges- Hospital Charges
- Hospital Charge
- Charges, Hospital
- Charge, Hospital
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Hospital Charges" by people in Profiles.
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Akhtar OS, Lakhter V, Zack CJ, Hussain H, Aggarwal V, Oliveros E, Brailovsky Y, Zhao H, Dhanisetty R, Charalel RA, Zhao M, Bashir R. Contemporary Trends and Comparative Outcomes With Adjunctive Inferior Vena Cava Filter Placement in Patients Undergoing Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis for Deep Vein Thrombosis in the United States: Insights From the National Inpatient Sample. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2018 07 23; 11(14):1390-1397.
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Chung PJ, Smith MC, Roudnitsky V, Lee JS, Alfonso AE, Sugiyama G. A Calculated Risk: Performing Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for Acute Cholecystitis on Patients with End Stage Renal Disease. Am Surg. 2018 Jun 01; 84(6):963-970.
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Kaufman E, Rising K, Wiebe DJ, Ebler DJ, Crandall ML, Delgado MK. Recurrent violent injury: magnitude, risk factors, and opportunities for intervention from a statewide analysis. Am J Emerg Med. 2016 Sep; 34(9):1823-30.
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Ahmed OH, Mahboubi H, Lahham S, Pham C, Djalilian HR. Trends in demographics, charges, and outcomes of patients undergoing excision of sporadic vestibular schwannoma. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2014 Feb; 150(2):266-74.
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Piela NE, Sacchetti A, Sholevar D, Blaber R, Levi S. Impact of ED management on hospital quality measures: the negative case of atrial fibrillation. Am J Emerg Med. 2013 May; 31(5):822-4.
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Piatt JH, Neff DA. Hospital care of childhood traumatic brain injury in the United States, 1997-2009: a neurosurgical perspective. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2012 Oct; 10(4):257-67.
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Roumm AR, Pizzi L, Goldfarb NI, Cohn H. Minimally invasive: minimally reimbursed? An examination of six laparoscopic surgical procedures. Surg Innov. 2005 Sep; 12(3):261-87.
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Wheeler EC, Klemm P, Hardie T, Plowfield L, Birney M, Polek C, Lynch KG. Racial disparities in hospitalized elderly patients with chronic heart failure. J Transcult Nurs. 2004 Oct; 15(4):291-7.
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Yuen EJ, Gonnella JS, Louis DZ, Epstein KR, Howell SL, Markson LE. Severity-adjusted differences in hospital utilization by gender. Am J Med Qual. 1995; 10(2):76-80.
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Chambers CV, Diamond JJ, Perkel RL, Lasch LA. Relationship of advance directives to hospital charges in a Medicare population. Arch Intern Med. 1994 Mar 14; 154(5):541-7.