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Hospital Communication Systems
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D006747 |
[The transmission of messages to staff and patients within a hospital.
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Hospital Costs
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D017721 |
[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).
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Hospital Departments
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D006748 |
[Major administrative divisions of the hospital.
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Hospital Design and Construction
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D006749 |
[The architecture, functional design, and construction of hospitals.
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Hospital Distribution Systems
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D006750 |
[Systems for delivering hospital supplies, food, laundry, etc., to patient care areas.
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Hospital Information Systems
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D006751 |
[Integrated, computer-assisted systems designed to store, manipulate, and retrieve information concerned with the administrative and clinical aspects of providing medical services within the hospital.
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Hospital Medicine
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D064416 |
[The branch of medicine concerned with the delivery of comprehensive medical care to hospitalized patients. Practitioners include physicians and non-physician providers who engage in clinical care, teaching, research, or leadership in the field of general hospital medicine.(from http://www.hospitalmedicine.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Hospitalist_Definition)
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Hospital Mortality
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D017052 |
[A vital statistic measuring or recording the rate of death from any cause in hospitalized populations.
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Hospital Planning
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D006752 |
[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.
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Hospital Rapid Response Team
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D057209 |
[Multidisciplinary team most frequently consisting of INTENSIVE CARE UNIT trained personnel who are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week for evaluation of patients who develop signs or symptoms of severe CLINICAL DETERIORATION.
, Team of hospital doctors and nurses who respond immediately to patients suffering cardiac arrest.
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Hospital Records
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D006753 |
[Compilations of data on hospital activities and programs; excludes patient medical records.
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Hospital Restructuring
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D006754 |
[Reorganization of the hospital corporate structure.
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Hospital Shared Services
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D006755 |
[Cooperation among hospitals for the purpose of sharing various departmental services, e.g., pharmacy, laundry, data processing, etc.
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Hospital Shops
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D006756 |
[Stores located in hospitals selling merchandise or services for the convenience of patients, staff, and visitors.
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Hospital Units
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D006757 |
[Those areas of the hospital organization not considered departments which provide specialized patient care. They include various hospital special care wards.
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Hospital Volunteers
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D006758 |
[Individuals who donate their services to the hospital.
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Hospital-Patient Relations
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D015285 |
[Interactions between hospital staff or administrators and patients. Includes guest relations programs designed to improve the image of the hospital and attract patients.
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Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures
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D006759 |
[A formal financial agreement made between one or more physicians and a hospital to provide ambulatory alternative services to those patients who do not require hospitalization.
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Hospital-Physician Relations
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D018578 |
[Includes relationships between hospitals, their governing boards, and administrators in regard to physicians, whether or not the physicians are members of the medical staff or have medical staff privileges.
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Hospitalists
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D020445 |
[Physicians who are employed to work exclusively in hospital settings, primarily for managed care organizations. They are the attending or primary responsible physician for the patient during hospitalization.
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