The number of beds which a hospital has been designed and constructed to contain. It may also refer to the number of beds set up and staffed for use.

A measure of inpatient health facility use based upon the average number or proportion of beds occupied for a given period of time.

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.

Equipment on which one may lie and sleep, especially as used to care for the hospital patient.

A system of government in which means of production and distribution of goods are controlled by the state.

Large hospitals with a resident medical staff which provides continuous care to maternity, surgical and medical patients.

A certificate issued by a governmental body to an individual or organization proposing to construct or modify a health facility, or to offer a new or different service. The process of issuing the certificate is also included.

Organization of medical and nursing care according to the degree of illness and care requirements in the hospital. The elements are intensive care, intermediate care, self-care, long-term care, and organized home care.

Reorganization of the hospital corporate structure.

The period of confinement of a patient to a hospital or other health facility.

Special hospitals which provide care to the mentally ill patient.

Government-controlled hospitals which represent the major health facility for a designated geographic area.

A system of government in which there is free and equal participation by the people in the political decision-making process.

A class of hospitals that includes profit or not-for-profit hospitals that are controlled by a legal entity other than a government agency. (Hospital Administration Terminology, AHA, 2d ed)

The process of accepting patients. The concept includes patients accepted for medical and nursing care in a hospital or other health care institution.

The obtaining and management of funds for hospital needs and responsibility for fiscal affairs.

Any materials used in providing care specifically in the hospital.

Economic aspects related to the management and operation of a hospital.

Institutions with an organized medical staff which provide medical care to patients.

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).

The physical space or dimensions of a facility. Size may be indicated by bed capacity.

The confinement of a patient in a hospital.

Cooperation among hospitals for the purpose of sharing various departmental services, e.g., pharmacy, laundry, data processing, etc.

Confinement of an individual to bed for therapeutic or experimental reasons.

Hospitals engaged in educational and research programs, as well as providing medical care to the patients.

The administrative process of discharging the patient, alive or dead, from hospitals or other health facilities.

Hospitals maintained by a university for the teaching of medical students, postgraduate training programs, and clinical research.

A geographic area defined and served by a health program or institution.

Hospitals controlled by various types of government, i.e., city, county, district, state or federal.

Institutions with permanent facilities and organized medical staff which provide the full range of hospital services primarily to a neighborhood area.

Available manpower, facilities, revenue, equipment, and supplies to produce requisite health care and services.

Hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of immediate medical or surgical care to the emergency patient.

An organized procedure carried out through committees to review admissions, duration of stay, professional services furnished, and to evaluate the medical necessity of those services and promote their most efficient use.

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.

Hospitals located in metropolitan areas.

Personnel who provide nursing service to patients in a hospital.

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.

Special hospitals which provide care for ill children.

Hospitals which provide care for a single category of illness with facilities and staff directed toward a specific service.

The amounts spent by individuals, groups, nations, or private or public organizations for total health care and/or its various components. These amounts may or may not be equivalent to the actual costs (HEALTH CARE COSTS) and may or may not be shared among the patient, insurers, and/or employers.

Subsequent admissions of a patient to a hospital or other health care institution for treatment.

Health services required by a population or community as well as the health services that the population or community is able and willing to pay for.

Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations.

The concept concerned with all aspects of providing and distributing health services to a patient population.

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)

The capacity of an organization, institution, or business to produce desired results with a minimum expenditure of energy, time, money, personnel, materiel, etc.

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.

Major administrative divisions of the hospital.

A system of medical care regulated, controlled and financed by the government, in which the government assumes responsibility for the health needs of the population.

Those areas of the hospital organization not considered departments which provide specialized patient care. They include various hospital special care wards.

The degree to which individuals are inhibited or facilitated in their ability to gain entry to and to receive care and services from the health care system. Factors influencing this ability include geographic, architectural, transportational, and financial considerations, among others.

Compilations of data on hospital activities and programs; excludes patient medical records.

Theoretical representations that simulate the behavior or activity of systems, processes, or phenomena. They include the use of mathematical equations, computers, and other electronic equipment.

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.

Information centers primarily serving the needs of hospital medical staff and sometimes also providing patient education and other services.

Hospital department which administers all departmental functions and the provision of surgical diagnostic and therapeutic services.