"Medicare" 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.
Federal program, created by Public Law 89-97, Title XVIII-Health Insurance for the Aged, a 1965 amendment to the Social Security Act, that provides health insurance benefits to persons over the age of 65 and others eligible for Social Security benefits. It consists of two separate but coordinated programs: hospital insurance (MEDICARE PART A) and supplementary medical insurance (MEDICARE PART B). (Hospital Administration Terminology, AHA, 2d ed and A Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, US House of Representatives, 1976)
| Descriptor ID |
D006278
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N03.219.521.346.506.564.663 N03.219.521.576.343.840 N03.706.615.696
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| Concept/Terms |
Medicare- Medicare
- Health Insurance for Aged, Disabled, Title 18
- Health Insurance for Aged, Title 18
- Health Insurance for Aged and Disabled, Title 18
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Medicare" by people in this website by year, and whether "Medicare" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2001 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2011 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2013 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 2014 | 5 | 13 | 18 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2016 | 2 | 11 | 13 |
| 2017 | 2 | 11 | 13 |
| 2018 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2019 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 2020 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2021 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 2022 | 2 | 13 | 15 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Medicare" by people in Profiles.
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Economic Evaluation of Mailed Home-Based Human Papillomavirus Self-sampling Kits for Cervical Cancer Screening. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 03 01; 6(3):e234052.
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Association Between Preoperative Hemodialysis Timing and Postoperative Mortality in Patients With End-stage Kidney Disease. JAMA. 2022 11 08; 328(18):1837-1848.
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Risk of Acute Kidney Injury Among Older Adults With Heart Failure and With Reduced Ejection Fraction Treated With Angiotensin-Neprilysin Inhibitor vs Renin-Angiotensin System Inhibitor in Routine Clinical Care. J Card Fail. 2023 Feb; 29(2):138-146.
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Can clinician champions reduce potentially inappropriate medications in people living with dementia? Study protocol for a cluster randomized trial. Implement Sci. 2022 09 27; 17(1):63.
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Association of Insurance Coverage With Adoption of Sleeve Gastrectomy vs Gastric Bypass for Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 08 01; 5(8):e2225964.
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Sacubitril/valsartan use patterns among older adults with heart failure in clinical practice: a population-based cohort study of >25?000 Medicare beneficiaries. Eur J Heart Fail. 2022 Sep; 24(9):1506-1515.
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The Contribution of First-name Information to the Accuracy of Racial-and-Ethnic Imputations Varies by Sex and Race-and-Ethnicity Among Medicare Beneficiaries. Med Care. 2022 Aug 01; 60(8):556-562.
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Comparison of Ambulatory Health Care Costs and Use Associated With Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass vs Sleeve Gastrectomy. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 05 02; 5(5):e229661.
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ReducinG stroke by screening for UndiAgnosed atRial fibrillation in elderly inDividuals (GUARD-AF): Rationale and design of the GUARD-AF randomized trial of screening for atrial fibrillation with a 14-day patch-based continuous ECG monitor. Am Heart J. 2022 07; 249:76-85.
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Stakeholder Research Priorities to Promote Implementation of Shared Decision-Making for Lung Cancer Screening: An American Thoracic Society and Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Statement. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2022 03 15; 205(6):619-630.