"Hospitals, Public" 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 controlled by various types of government, i.e., city, county, district, state or federal.
| Descriptor ID |
D006779
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N02.278.421.510
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Hospitals, Public".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hospitals, Public" by people in this website by year, and whether "Hospitals, Public" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2022 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Hospitals, Public" by people in Profiles.
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Accessing medical records for research in South African public hospitals: a reflective narrative. BMC Health Serv Res. 2025 Jan 27; 25(1):155.
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Managing under austerity: a?qualitative study of management-union relations during attempts to cut labour costs?in three South African public hospitals. J Health Organ Manag. 2024 Mar 05; 38(9):89-105.
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Coping strategies employed by public psychiatric healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in southern Gauteng, South Africa. PLoS One. 2023; 18(8):e0277392.
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Diagnostic testing practices for diarrhoeal cases in South African public hospitals. BMC Infect Dis. 2022 Nov 09; 22(1):827.
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Undiagnosed comorbidities among individuals hospitalised with COVID-19 in South African public hospitals. S Afr Med J. 2022 08 30; 112(9):747-752.
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Convalescent plasma in the treatment of moderate to severe COVID-19 pneumonia: a randomized controlled trial (PROTECT-Patient Trial). Sci Rep. 2022 02 15; 12(1):2552.
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Modeling the Cost-Effectiveness of Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Stage III Colon Cancer in South African Public Hospitals. JCO Glob Oncol. 2021 12; 7:1730-1741.
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Neurodevelopmental outcome in neonates with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy managed with therapeutic hypothermia in a tertiary-level public hospital outside an intensive care unit setting. Paediatr Int Child Health. 2021 Aug; 41(3):171-176.
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Austerity, resilience and the management of actors in public hospitals: a qualitative study from South Africa. BMJ Glob Health. 2021 02; 6(2).
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A pharmacist-led prospective antibiotic stewardship intervention improves compliance to community-acquired pneumonia guidelines in 39 public and private hospitals across South Africa. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2020 Dec; 56(6):106189.