Health Maintenance Organizations
"Health Maintenance Organizations" 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.
Organized systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: (1) provide care in a defined geographic area; (2) provide or ensure delivery of an agreed-upon set of basic and supplemental health maintenance and treatment services; (3) provide care to a voluntarily enrolled group of persons; (4) require their enrollees to use the services of designated providers; and (5) receive reimbursement through a predetermined, fixed, periodic prepayment made by the enrollee without regard to the degree of services provided. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988)
| Descriptor ID |
D006279
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N03.219.521.576.343.800.400 N03.219.521.576.343.925.400 N04.452.758.244.425 N04.590.374.410.400
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| Concept/Terms |
Health Maintenance Organizations- Health Maintenance Organizations
- Prepaid Group Health Organizations
- HMO
- Organizations, Health Maintenance
- Group Health Organizations, Prepaid
- Health Maintenance Organization
- Organization, Health Maintenance
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Maintenance Organizations" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Maintenance Organizations" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1995 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1996 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 1997 | 13 | 4 | 17 |
| 1998 | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| 1999 | 11 | 8 | 19 |
| 2000 | 15 | 6 | 21 |
| 2001 | 10 | 12 | 22 |
| 2002 | 12 | 10 | 22 |
| 2003 | 16 | 4 | 20 |
| 2004 | 13 | 15 | 28 |
| 2005 | 7 | 9 | 16 |
| 2006 | 3 | 11 | 14 |
| 2007 | 4 | 16 | 20 |
| 2008 | 4 | 8 | 12 |
| 2009 | 5 | 11 | 16 |
| 2010 | 5 | 13 | 18 |
| 2011 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2012 | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| 2013 | 4 | 11 | 15 |
| 2014 | 4 | 8 | 12 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2016 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Maintenance Organizations" by people in Profiles.
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Characteristics of Hospitalized Adults With COVID-19 in an Integrated Health Care System in California. JAMA. 2020 Jun 02; 323(21):2195-2198.
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Trends in Statin Use 2009-2015 in a Large Integrated Health System: Pre- and Post-2013 ACC/AHA Guideline on Treatment of Blood Cholesterol. Cardiovasc Drugs Ther. 2018 08; 32(4):397-404.
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Cohort Study of ECG Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Trajectories: Ethnic Disparities, Associations With Cardiovascular Outcomes, and Clinical Utility. J Am Heart Assoc. 2017 Oct 05; 6(10).
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Prediction of Recurrent Clostridium Difficile Infection Using Comprehensive Electronic Medical Records in an Integrated Healthcare Delivery System. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2017 10; 38(10):1196-1203.
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Health Literacy and Awareness of Atrial Fibrillation. J Am Heart Assoc. 2017 Apr 11; 6(4).
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Medication adherence, molecular monitoring, and clinical outcomes in patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia in a large HMO. J Am Pharm Assoc (2003). 2017 May - Jun; 57(3):303-310.e2.
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The Kaiser Permanente Northern California Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Program: Design, Development, and Implementation. Perm J. 2017; 21:17-003.
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Impact of Copayment Changes on Children's Albuterol Inhaler Use and Costs after the Clean Air Act Chlorofluorocarbon Ban. Health Serv Res. 2018 02; 53(1):156-174.
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Extracting and analyzing ejection fraction values from electronic echocardiography reports in a large health maintenance organization. Health Informatics J. 2017 12; 23(4):319-328.
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Reporting on the Strategies Needed to Implement Proven Interventions: An Example From a "Real-World" Cross-Setting Implementation Study. Mayo Clin Proc. 2016 Aug; 91(8):1074-83.