"Hospitals, Proprietary" 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.
Hospitals owned and operated by a corporation or an individual that operate on a for-profit basis, also referred to as investor-owned hospitals.
| Descriptor ID |
D006777
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N02.278.215.110 N02.278.421.481.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Hospitals, Proprietary- Hospitals, Proprietary
- Proprietary Hospitals
- Hospital, Proprietary
- Proprietary Hospital
- Private, for-Profit Hospitals
- Private, Investor-Owned Hospitals
- Hospitals, Private, for-Profit
- Hospitals, Private, Investor-Owned
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Hospitals, Proprietary".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hospitals, Proprietary" by people in this website by year, and whether "Hospitals, Proprietary" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1995 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Hospitals, Proprietary" by people in Profiles.
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For-Profit Status and Geographic Distribution of Trauma Centers in the US. JAMA Surg. 2023 09 01; 158(9):979-981.
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Characteristics of Academic-Affiliated Health Systems. Acad Med. 2020 04; 95(4):559-566.
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Caesarean sections and for-profit status of hospitals: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open. 2017 02 17; 7(2):e013670.
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Should doctors own hospitals? BMJ. 2015 Sep 02; 351:h4615.
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Access, quality, and costs of care at physician owned hospitals in the United States: observational study. BMJ. 2015 Sep 02; 351:h4466.
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Barriers to use of oral rehydration salts for child diarrhea in the private sector: evidence from India. J Trop Pediatr. 2015 Feb; 61(1):37-43.
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Variation in charges for 10 common blood tests in California hospitals: a cross-sectional analysis. BMJ Open. 2014 Aug 14; 4(8):e005482.
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Variations in the open market costs for prostate cancer surgery: a survey of US hospitals. Urology. 2014 Mar; 83(3):626-30.
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For-profit hospital status and rehospitalizations at different hospitals: an analysis of Medicare data. Ann Intern Med. 2010 Dec 07; 153(11):718-27.
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Uncompensated care provided by for-profit, not-for-profit, and government owned hospitals. BMC Health Serv Res. 2010 Apr 07; 10:90.