"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
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
N03.219.262.300 N03.219.442.613
|
| Concept/Terms |
Hospital Charges- Hospital Charges
- Hospital Charge
- Charges, Hospital
- Charge, Hospital
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Hospital Charges".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Hospital Charges".
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.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Hospital Charges" by people in Profiles.
-
Palliative Care Referrals in Cardiac Disease. Pediatrics. 2021 03; 147(3).
-
Impact of Malnutrition on Outcomes Among Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. Am J Cardiol. 2021 02 15; 141:157-160.
-
Clinical and economic characteristics of emergency department visits due to acetaminophen toxicity in the USA. BMJ Open. 2015 Sep 09; 5(9):e007368.
-
Emergency department visits in the United States for pediatric depression: estimates of charges and hospitalization. Acad Emerg Med. 2014 Sep; 21(9):1003-14.
-
Effect of epidural analgesia on postoperative complications following pancreaticoduodenectomy. Am J Surg. 2012 Dec; 204(6):1000-4; discussion 1004-6.
-
Can we afford to do laparoscopic appendectomy in an academic hospital? Am J Surg. 2005 Dec; 190(6):950-4.
-
Using an electronic medical record system to describe injury epidemiology and health care utilization at an inner-city hospital in Indiana. Inj Control Saf Promot. 2004 Dec; 11(4):269-79.
-
Therapeutic and financial outcomes using a pulsating low-air-loss surface for patients surviving severe posterior burns. Ostomy Wound Manage. 2000 Mar; 46(3):64-9.
-
Risk factors and outcomes associated with nuchal cord. A population-based study. J Reprod Med. 1999 Jan; 44(1):39-45.