"Hospitals, Low-Volume" 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 with a much lower than average utilization by physicians and smaller number of procedures.
Descriptor ID |
D061846
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MeSH Number(s) |
N02.278.421.434
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Concept/Terms |
Hospitals, Low-Volume- Hospitals, Low-Volume
- Hospital, Low-Volume
- Hospitals, Low Volume
- Low-Volume Hospital
- Low-Volume Hospitals
- Low Volume Hospitals
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2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Hospitals, Low-Volume" by people in Profiles.
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Travel distance and overall survival in hepatocellular cancer care. Am J Surg. 2021 Sep; 222(3):584-593.
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Travel distance and its interaction with patient and hospital factors in pancreas cancer care. Am J Surg. 2021 04; 221(4):819-825.
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Association between treatment facility volume, therapy types and overall survival in patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. HPB (Oxford). 2019 03; 21(3):379-386.
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Does Hospital Volume Affect Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery? Otol Neurotol. 2018 04; 39(4):481-487.
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Volume-Mortality Relationships during Hospitalization with Severe Sepsis Exist Only at Low Case Volumes. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2015 Aug; 12(8):1177-84.
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The influence of institutional volume on the incidence of complications and their effect on mortality after heart transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2015 Nov; 34(11):1390-7.