hospital costs

Preferred Label : hospital costs;

MeSH definition : 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).;

MeSH synonym : costs, hospital; hospital cost; cost, hospital;

MeSH annotation : expenses incurred by hosp in providing services: do not confuse with HOSPITAL CHARGES, prices for services; DF: HOSP COSTS; expenses incurred by hosp in providing services: do not confuse with HOSPITAL CHARGES, prices for services;

Details

Origin ID

D017721;

UMLS CUI

C0206174;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- organization & administration [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- hospital cost [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
Ne pas confondre avec
- hospital charges [MeSH Descriptor]
Record concept(s)
- hospital costs [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Quantitative Concept [UMLS semantic type]

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