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Hospital
Hospital: inpatient care institution (AHA: 6+ beds, physician staff, nursing; WHO: physician-staffed with inpatient accommodation). Covers types, DRG payment, occupancy, volume-outcome, ownership, and hospital-at-home since 2023.
Hospital Administrators
Hospital administrators, also called medical and health services managers, plan and direct hospital operations, finance, and personnel. Covers the profession's history since 1899, US pay and outlook, and evidence on leadership background and quality.
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a 14-item self-report questionnaire screening for anxiety and depression in medically ill patients, introduced by Zigmond and Snaith in 1983.
Hospital Authority
Hospital Authority (醫院管理局) is Hong Kong's statutory public hospital body, established 1 December 1990 under Cap. 113, managing public hospitals since December 1991 through seven clusters, over 90,000 staff and 30,000 beds.
Hospital Central Militar
Hospital Central Militar, Mexico City (Lomas de Sotelo): SEDENA's third-level high-specialty military hospital, inaugurated 20 November 1942; over 730 censable beds, 21 operating rooms, teaching and residency center of the Mexican Army.
Hospital Charges
Hospital charges are the amounts US hospitals list and bill for items and services, recorded in each hospital's chargemaster; they exceed cost and actual insurer payments, and federal transparency rules since 2021 require publishing them.
Hospital corpsman
Hospital corpsman (HM), the Navy's largest enlisted rating, provides medical care to Sailors and Marines ashore, afloat, and with Marine units. Established June 17, 1898; 19-week A School in San Antonio; TCCC Tier 3 certification now at entry level.
Hospital de Clínicas
Hospital de Clínicas Dr. Manuel Quintela, Montevideo university hospital of Universidad de la República on Av. Italia; inaugurated 21 September 1953, 24-story Carlos Surraco building, joined Uruguay's SNIS in 2025, renewal planned for 2030.
Hospital de San Andrés (Lima)
The Hospital de San Andrés, also known as the Real Hospital de San Andrés, was a hospital in Lima, Peru, founded in 1552 and serving until 1875.
Hospital emergency codes
Hospital emergency codes, also known as hospital codes, are color-coded announcements used in hospitals to alert staff to emergencies like cardiac arrest or fire without alarming patients.
Hospital Equipment and Supplies
Hospital equipment and supplies are the materials used in providing hospital care, from beds and imaging machines to dressings; supplies cost about 15% of a US hospital's operating budget.
Hospital for Sick Children
Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto paediatric teaching hospital founded 1875 by Elizabeth McMaster; Canada's first children's hospital, at 555 University Avenue since 1951, affiliated with the University of Toronto.
Hospital for Special Surgery
Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), founded 1863 as the Hospital for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, is a New York academic medical center for orthopedics and rheumatology, Weill Cornell-affiliated, ranked No. 1 in US orthopedics 17 straight years.
Hospital frailty risk score
The Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS) is a frailty score calculated from routine hospital ICD-10 codes, introduced by Thomas Gilbert and colleagues in The Lancet in 2018.
Hospital General de México
Hospital General de México Dr. Eduardo Liceaga (HGMEL), federal reference hospital in Mexico City, inaugurated 5 February 1905 by Porfirio Díaz; decentralized Secretaría de Salud organism offering 83 specialties, free care, and major research output.
Hospital Information Systems
Hospital information systems (HIS) are integrated computer-assisted systems managing administrative and clinical hospital information, from 1960s billing mainframes to modern EHR platforms, with interoperability, evaluation, and cost-benefit evidence as defining concerns.
Hospital medicine
Hospital medicine: specialty of comprehensive care for hospitalized patients, practitioners called hospitalists; term coined by Wachter and Goldman in 1996; organized around site of care, not organ or age.
Hospital Militar Central
Hospital Militar Central: level IV military hospital in Bogotá, Colombia, inaugurated 25 April 1962, attached to the Ministry of National Defense; main reference center for Military Forces and Police health care. Same-named hospitals exist in Argentina, Mexico, Peru, and El Salvador.
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), opened 1874 in West Philadelphia: the first university-owned teaching hospital in the United States, flagship of Penn Medicine, home of the 2021 Pavilion (Clifton Center).
Hospital pediatrics
Hospital Pediatrics is the American Academy of Pediatrics' peer-reviewed journal, founded July 1, 2011 as the first journal for pediatric hospital medicine; monthly, Medline-indexed, Impact Factor 2.2 in 2026.
Hospital Personnel
Hospital personnel are all the individuals a hospital employs, including physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and administrative, technical, and ancillary staff, as formalized in the MeSH vocabulary.
Hospital Privado
Hospital Privado Universitario de Córdoba, also Hospital Privado Centro Medico de Cordoba S.A., a private high-complexity hospital in Córdoba, Argentina, opened 1957, JCI-accredited, with 572 beds and a transplant and oncology referral network.
Hospital to Home Transition
Hospital to home transition (care transitions, transitional care): the risky discharge handoff where patients resume self-management. Key models are Coleman's Care Transitions Intervention and Naylor's Transitional Care Model; readmission reduction evidence favors low-complexity interventions.
Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria
Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria (HUSM), UFSM's teaching hospital in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: founded 1970, campus building opened 1982, 380 beds, 100% SUS, regional reference for 43 municipalities.
Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (Hospital USM, now Hospital Pakar USM/HPUSM) is the teaching hospital of Universiti Sains Malaysia in Kubang Kerian, Kelantan; operating since 1983, opened 1984, referral center for Malaysia's east coast.
Hospital-acquired infection
Hospital-acquired infection (healthcare-associated infection, HAI): infection related to receiving healthcare in any setting. About 1 in 38 US hospital patients has one daily; common types include CLABSI, CAUTI, SSI, and ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Hospitalization
Hospitalization is the confinement of a patient in a hospital (MeSH D006760), covering admission through discharge. Key distinction: inpatient versus observation status, which affects Medicare costs, skilled nursing coverage, and hospitalization-rate surveillance.
Hospitalization Insurance
Hospitalization insurance, also called hospital indemnity or group hospitalization, is health insurance covering or partly covering hospital expenses; in the US it also names Medicare Part A, and fixed indemnity versions pay set cash per admission.
Host-Directed Therapy
Host-directed therapy (HDT) treats infections by targeting host cell factors and immune pathways instead of the pathogen, as an adjunct against antimicrobial resistance in tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, COVID-19, and sepsis.
Hot flash
Hot flash (hot flush): sudden feeling of heat in the upper body and face, the main vasomotor symptom of menopause, lasting 30 seconds to 10 minutes; affects up to 80% of midlife women, also men on androgen deprivation therapy; treated with hormone therapy, hypnosis, CBT, SSRIs/SNRIs, gabapentin, fezolinetant, elinzanetant.