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Cost Control

"Cost Control" 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.

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The containment, regulation, or restraint of costs. Costs are said to be contained when the value of resources committed to an activity is not considered excessive. This determination is frequently subjective and dependent upon the specific geographic area of the activity being measured. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cost Control" by people in this website by year, and whether "Cost Control" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 32 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 1997 and 2007 and 2010
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