Hospital Bed Capacity
Bed Occupancy
A measure of inpatient health facility use based upon the average number or proportion of beds occupied for a given period of time.
Hospital Planning
Areawide planning for hospitals or planning of a particular hospital unit on the basis of projected consumer need. This does not include hospital design and construction or architectural plans.
Socialism
Hospitals, General
Large hospitals with a resident medical staff which provides continuous care to maternity, surgical and medical patients.
Certificate of Need
Progressive Patient Care
Hospitals, Psychiatric
Special hospitals which provide care to the mentally ill patient.
Hospitals, District
Government-controlled hospitals which represent the major health facility for a designated geographic area.
Democracy
Hospitals, Private
Patient Admission
Financial Management, Hospital
Hospital Costs
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).
Health Facility Size
Hospital Shared Services
Cooperation among hospitals for the purpose of sharing various departmental services, e.g., pharmacy, laundry, data processing, etc.
Hospitals, Teaching
Patient Discharge
The administrative process of discharging the patient, alive or dead, from hospitals or other health facilities.
Hospitals, University
Hospitals, Public
Hospitals, Community
Health Resources
Emergency Service, Hospital
Utilization Review
Diagnosis-Related Groups
A system for classifying patient care by relating common characteristics such as diagnosis, treatment, and age to an expected consumption of hospital resources and length of stay. Its purpose is to provide a framework for specifying case mix and to reduce hospital costs and reimbursements and it forms the cornerstone of the prospective payment system.
Retrospective Studies
Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons.
Hospitals, Pediatric
Special hospitals which provide care for ill children.
Hospitals, Special
Health Expenditures
Patient Readmission
Health Services Needs and Demand
Delivery of Health Care
Health Services Research
The integration of epidemiologic, sociological, economic, and other analytic sciences in the study of health services. Health services research is usually concerned with relationships between need, demand, supply, use, and outcome of health services. The aim of the research is evaluation, particularly in terms of structure, process, output, and outcome. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)
Efficiency, Organizational
Hospital Charges
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.
State Medicine
Hospital Units
Health Services Accessibility
Hospital Records
Models, Theoretical
Age Factors
Age as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or the effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from AGING, a physiological process, and TIME FACTORS which refers only to the passage of time.