Hospital Costs

"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.

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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
MeSH Number(s)	N03.219.151.400.687 N03.219.262.500 N05.300.375.500
Concept/Terms	Hospital Costs Hospital Costs Costs, Hospital Hospital Cost Cost, Hospital

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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]
Hospital Costs [N03.219.151.400.687]
Economics, Hospital [N03.219.262]
Hospital Costs [N03.219.262.500]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Delivery of Health Care [N05.300]
Health Care Costs [N05.300.375]
Hospital Costs [N05.300.375.500]

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Bar chart showing 23 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2012 and 2015 and 2019

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2002	1	0	1
2003	1	1	2
2004	0	1	1
2005	1	0	1
2009	0	1	1
2011	1	0	1
2012	2	1	3
2015	0	3	3
2016	1	1	2
2017	1	0	1
2018	1	0	1
2019	1	2	3
2021	0	1	1
2023	0	1	1
2025	1	0	1

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Wen T, Tessler G, Huang Y, Andrikopoulou M, De Meritens AB, Venkatesh KK, Friedman A, Arditi B, Mourad M, Overton E. Variation in Inpatient Admission for Management and Cost Drivers in Placenta Accreta Spectrum Disorder. Obstet Gynecol. 2025 Jun 01; 145(6):691-699.

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Arora S, Chen I, Bronkema C, Chiarelli G, Finati M, Cirulli GO, Majdalany SE, Rakic I, Sood A, Trinh QD, Rogers CG, Peabody JO, Menon M, Abdollah F. Admission Rates, Healthcare Utilization, and Inpatient Cost of Radiation Cystitis in the United States. Urology. 2024 02; 184:94-100.

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Babcock A, Moussa RK, Diaby V. Effects, trends, costs associated with readmission in early-aged patients with suicidal ideation. Expert Rev Pharmacoecon Outcomes Res. 2022 Mar; 22(2):247-258.

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Cham S, Wen T, Friedman A, Wright JD. Fragmentation of postoperative care after surgical management of ovarian cancer at 30 days and 90 days. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2020 03; 222(3):255.e1-255.e20.

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Lee JH, Zhang G, Harvey S, Nakagawa K. Temporal Trends of Hospitalization, Mortality, and Financial Impact Related to Preeclampsia with Severe Features in Hawai'i and the United States. Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2019 08; 78(8):252-257.

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Hernandez-Suarez DF, Ranka S, Villablanca P, Yordan-Lopez N, Gonz?lez-Sep?lveda L, Wiley J, Sanina C, Roche-Lima A, Nieves-Rodriguez BG, Thomas S, Cox-Alomar P, Lopez-Candales A, Ramakrishna H. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Insights from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's National Inpatient Sample. Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 2019 07; 20(7):546-552.

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Goodwin JS, Salameh H, Zhou J, Singh S, Kuo YF, Nattinger AB. Association of Hospitalist Years of Experience With Mortality in the Hospitalized Medicare Population. JAMA Intern Med. 2018 02 01; 178(2):196-203.

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Falana A, Akpojiyovwi V, Sey E, Akpaffiong A, Agumbah O, Chienye S, Banks J, Jones E, Spooner KK, Salemi JL, Olaleye OA, Onyiego SD, Salihu HM. Hospital length of stay and cost burden of HIV, tuberculosis, and HIV-tuberculosis coinfection among pregnant women in the United States. Am J Infect Control. 2018 05; 46(5):564-570.

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Arefian H, Heublein S, Scherag A, Brunkhorst FM, Younis MZ, Moerer O, Fischer D, Hartmann M. Hospital-related cost of sepsis: A systematic review. J Infect. 2017 02; 74(2):107-117.

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Shah AA, Zafar SN, Kodadek LM, Zogg CK, Chapital AB, Iqbal A, Greene WR, Cornwell EE, Havens J, Nitzschke S, Cooper Z, Salim A, Haider AH. Never giving up: outcomes and presentation of emergency general surgery in geriatric octogenarian and nonagenarian patients. Am J Surg. 2016 Aug; 212(2):211-220.e3.

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