"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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hospital Charges" by people in this website by year, and whether "Hospital Charges" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2012 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Hospital Charges" by people in Profiles.
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Descriptions and Changes in Charge Master Pricings of US Children's Hospitals From 2019 to 2021. Hosp Pediatr. 2023 05 01; 13(5):368-374.
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Sharing the Operating Room: A Descriptive Study of Combined and Collaborative Plastic Surgery Cases. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2022 05 01; 149(5):1009e-1013e.
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Hospital Readmission in Patients With Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection. Am J Cardiol. 2021 07 15; 151:39-44.
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Congenital Heart Disease and Myelomeningocele in the Newborn: Prevalence and Mortality. Pediatr Cardiol. 2021 Jun; 42(5):1026-1032.
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Implementation of a sentinel lymph node mapping algorithm for endometrial cancer: surgical outcomes and hospital charges. Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2020 03; 30(3):352-357.
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Blunt versus penetrating trauma: Is there a resource intensity discrepancy? Am J Surg. 2019 12; 218(6):1201-1205.
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Impact of implementation of an enhanced recovery program in gynecologic surgery on healthcare costs. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2020 01; 222(1):66.e1-66.e9.
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Emergency department utilization and monetary charges in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, and a population comparison group. Autism Res. 2019 07; 12(7):1129-1138.
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The Economic Burden of Musculoskeletal Disease in Children and Adolescents in the United States. J Pediatr Orthop. 2018 Apr; 38(4):e230-e236.
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System-wide process changes improve procedural sedation billing in the pediatric emergency department. Am J Emerg Med. 2018 11; 36(11):2112-2115.