"Relative Value Scales" 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.
Coded listings of physician or other professional services using units that indicate the relative value of the various services they perform. They take into account time, skill, and overhead cost required for each service, but generally do not consider the relative cost-effectiveness. Appropriate conversion factors can be used to translate the abstract units of the relative value scales into dollar fees for each service based on work expended, practice costs, and training costs.
| Descriptor ID |
D015895
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N03.219.521.710.305.500 N04.452.313.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Relative Value Scales- Relative Value Scales
- Relative Value Scale
- Scale, Relative Value
- Scales, Relative Value
- Relative-Value Schedules
- Relative Value Schedules
- Relative-Value Schedule
- Schedule, Relative-Value
- Schedules, Relative-Value
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| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Relative Value Scales" by people in Profiles.
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The Relationship Between Work Relative Value Unit Awareness and Work Relative Value Unit Accumulation Among Physicians. J Med Pract Manage. 2016 09; 32(2):86-91.
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Fostering value in clinical practice among future physicians: time to consider COST. Acad Med. 2014 Nov; 89(11):1440.
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Impact of hepatectomy surgical complexity on outcomes and hospital quality rankings. Ann Surg Oncol. 2014 Jun; 21(6):1773-80.
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Revenue: understanding insurance reimbursement and CPT coding in child and adolescent psychiatry. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2010 Jan; 19(1):89-105; table of contents.
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Medicare's "Global" terrorism: where is the pay for performance? J Trauma. 2008 Feb; 64(2):374-83; discussion 383-4.
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Medicare's bundling of trauma care codes violates relative value principles. J Trauma. 2004 Dec; 57(6):1164-72.
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Estimating the cost of developmental and behavioral screening of preschool children in general pediatric practice. Pediatrics. 2001 Oct; 108(4):913-22.
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Measuring faculty effort and contributions in medical education. Acad Med. 2000 Feb; 75(2):199-207.