"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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hospital Costs" by people in this website by year, and whether "Hospital Costs" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 1998 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2007 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2013 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2014 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2015 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| 2017 | 7 | 8 | 15 |
| 2018 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 2019 | 3 | 9 | 12 |
| 2020 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 2021 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 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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Hospital and patient factors predict length of stay in patients with osteoarthritis undergoing total primary hip replacement. Joint Bone Spine. 2025 10; 92(5):105913.
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Intravascular Imaging-Guided Versus Angiography-Guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction in the United States. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2025 03; 105(4):745-751.
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Independent Risk Factors and Economic Burden Associated With Delayed Extubation Following Pediatric Liver Transplantation. Clin Transplant. 2024 Oct; 38(10):e15472.
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A propensity score matched cost analysis of robotic versus open hepatectomy. HPB (Oxford). 2024 Nov; 26(11):1379-1386.
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Identifying drivers of cost in pediatric liver transplantation. Liver Transpl. 2024 Aug 01; 30(8):796-804.
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Nonprofit Hospitals: Profits And Cash Reserves Grow, Charity Care Does Not. Health Aff (Millwood). 2023 06; 42(6):866-869.
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The costs of complications after emergency gastrointestinal surgery in Kenya. Surgery. 2022 11; 172(5):1401-1406.
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Outcomes and Resource Utilization in Patients Hospitalized with Gastrointestinal Bleeding Complicated by Types 1 and 2 Myocardial Infarction. Am J Med. 2022 08; 135(8):975-983.e2.
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Patient Characteristics and Outcomes of Type 2 Myocardial Infarction During Heart Failure Hospitalizations in the United States. Am J Med. 2021 11; 134(11):1371-1379.e2.
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Outcomes and Resource Utilization of Atrial Fibrillation Hospitalizations With Type 2 Myocardial Infarction. Am J Cardiol. 2021 08 01; 152:27-33.