Health Care Costs

"Health Care 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.

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The actual costs of providing services related to the delivery of health care, including the costs of procedures, therapies, and medications. It is differentiated from HEALTH EXPENDITURES, which refers to the amount of money paid for the services, and from fees, which refers to the amount charged, regardless of cost.

Descriptor ID	D017048
MeSH Number(s)	N03.219.151.400 N05.300.375
Concept/Terms	Health Care Costs Health Care Costs Cost, Health Care Costs, Health Care Health Care Cost Health Costs Cost, Health Costs, Health Health Cost Healthcare Costs Cost, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Healthcare Cost Medical Care Costs Medical Care Costs Costs, Medical Care Cost, Medical Care Medical Care Cost Treatment Costs Treatment Costs Cost, Treatment Costs, Treatment Treatment Cost

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Health Care Costs".

Health Care [N]
Health Care Economics and Organizations [N03]
Economics [N03.219]
Costs and Cost Analysis [N03.219.151]
Health Care Costs [N03.219.151.400]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Delivery of Health Care [N05.300]
Health Care Costs [N05.300.375]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Care Costs" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Care Costs" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 67 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2016

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	1	0	1
2001	1	0	1
2003	0	1	1
2005	1	2	3
2006	2	1	3
2007	2	1	3
2009	1	3	4
2010	0	1	1
2011	1	2	3
2012	2	3	5
2013	4	3	7
2014	2	2	4
2015	1	1	2
2016	2	6	8
2017	1	2	3
2018	2	1	3
2019	3	3	6
2020	3	0	3
2021	2	3	5
2023	0	1	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Care Costs" by people in Profiles.

Dawson L, Nehme E, Nehme Z, Zomer E, Bloom J, Cox S, Anderson D, Stephenson M, Lefkovits J, Taylor A, Kaye D, Cullen L, Smith K, Stub D. Healthcare cost burden of acute chest pain presentations. Emerg Med J. 2023 Jun; 40(6):437-443.

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Sakamoto Y, Yamauchi Y, Jo T, Michihata N, Hasegawa W, Takeshima H, Matsui H, Fushimi K, Yasunaga H, Nagase T. In-hospital mortality associated with community-acquired pneumonia due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a matched-pair cohort study. BMC Pulm Med. 2021 Nov 03; 21(1):345.

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Jiang X, Vouri SM, Diaby V, Lo-Ciganic W, Parker R, Park H. Health care utilization and costs associated with direct-acting antivirals for patients with substance use disorders and chronic hepatitis C. J Manag Care Spec Pharm. 2021 Oct; 27(10):1388-1402.

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van Boemmel-Wegmann S, Brown JD, Diaby V, Huo J, Silver N, Park H. Health Care Utilization and Costs Associated With Systemic First-Line Metastatic Melanoma Therapies in the United States. JCO Oncol Pract. 2022 01; 18(1):e163-e174.

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Morrar R, Jabr S, Ghandour R, Abu-Rmeileh NM, Forgione DA, Younis M. Identifying healthcare cost drivers in Palestine. Int J Health Plann Manage. 2021 May; 36(3):911-924.

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Ganske IM, Sanchez K, Le E, Langa OC, Sharif-Askary B, Ross E, Santiago P, Meara JG, Padwa BL, Allori AC. Time-Driven, Activity-Based Costing of Presurgical Infant Orthopedics: A Critical Component of Establishing Value of Latham Appliance and Nasoalveolar Molding. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2021 03 01; 147(3):444-454.

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Ngwa E, Winkfield D, Okunji P. Factors Affecting the Readmission Rates and Health Care Costs of Patients Hospitalized with Schizophrenia: Non-Adherence to Treatment and Increased Relapses. J Natl Black Nurses Assoc. 2020 Dec; 31(2):67-70.

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Spahillari A, Zhu J, Ferket BS, Hunink MGM, Carr JJ, Terry JG, Nelson C, Mwasongwe S, Mentz RJ, O'Brien EC, Correa A, Shah RV, Murthy VL, Pandya A. Cost-effectiveness of Contemporary Statin Use Guidelines With or Without Coronary Artery Calcium Assessment in African American Individuals. JAMA Cardiol. 2020 08 01; 5(8):871-880.

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Langton JM, Wong ST, Burge F, Choi A, Ghaseminejad-Tafreshi N, Johnston S, Katz A, Lavergne R, Mooney D, Peterson S, McGrail K. Population segments as a tool for health care performance reporting: an exploratory study in the Canadian province of British Columbia. BMC Fam Pract. 2020 05 31; 21(1):98.

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Nelson PC, Mulla ZD. The Cost of Hospitalized Ocular Injuries in Texas, 2013-2014. Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2020 10; 27(5):409-416.

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