"Hospital 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.
The expenses incurred by a hospital in providing care. The hospital costs attributed to a particular patient care episode include the direct costs plus an appropriate proportion of the overhead for administration, personnel, building maintenance, equipment, etc. Hospital costs are one of the factors which determine HOSPITAL CHARGES (the price the hospital sets for its services).
| Descriptor ID |
D017721
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N03.219.151.400.687 N03.219.262.500 N05.300.375.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Hospital Costs- Hospital Costs
- Costs, Hospital
- Hospital Cost
- Cost, Hospital
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Hospital Costs" by people in Profiles.
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Contemporary Operative Trends and Outcomes of Laparoscopic and Robotic Heller Myotomy Using a Large National Database. Am Surg. 2025 Oct; 91(10):1802-1807.
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Length of stay following percutaneous coronary intervention: An expert consensus document update from the society for cardiovascular angiography and interventions. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2018 10 01; 92(4):717-731.
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Surgeon volume is associated with cost and variation in surgical treatment of proximal humeral fractures. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2013 Feb; 471(2):655-64.
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Single-incision surgery has higher cost with equivalent pain and quality-of-life scores compared with multiple-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a prospective randomized blinded comparison. J Am Coll Surg. 2012 Nov; 215(5):702-8.
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Demographic, institutional and obstetrical risk factors for postpartum haemorrhage mortality. J Obstet Gynaecol. 2010; 30(5):470-5.
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Postlung transplant rehospitalization: a study of causes, health care burden, and outcomes. Exp Clin Transplant. 2009 Sep; 7(3):192-6.
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Association of secondary hyperparathyroidism with CKD progression, health care costs and survival in diabetic predialysis CKD patients. Nephron Clin Pract. 2009; 113(1):c54-61.