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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2000 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2005 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2006 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 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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Suicide in a health maintenance organization population. JAMA Psychiatry. 2015 Mar; 72(3):294-6.
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Factors contributing to underuse of radiation among younger women with breast cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2014 Jan; 106(1):djt340.
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Fecal incontinence in primary care: prevalence, diagnosis, and health care utilization. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010 May; 202(5):493.e1-6.
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The association of Medicare drug coverage with use of evidence-based medications in the Veterans Health Administration. Ann Pharmacother. 2009 Oct; 43(10):1565-75.
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VHA pharmacy use in veterans with Medicare drug coverage. Am J Manag Care. 2009 Mar 16; 15(3):e1-8.
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Hepatocellular cancer care: cost is important but only one factor of disease burden. J Hepatol. 2009 Jan; 50(1):10-2.
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Health, preventive health care, and health care access among women with disabilities in the 1994-1995 National Health Interview Survey, Supplement on Disability. Womens Health Issues. 2006 Nov-Dec; 16(6):297-312.
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Effect of using information from only one system for dually eligible health care users. Med Care. 2006 Aug; 44(8):768-73.
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Reducing warfarin medication interactions: an interrupted time series evaluation. Arch Intern Med. 2006 May 08; 166(9):1009-15.
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A survey of factors affecting clinician acceptance of clinical decision support. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2006 Feb 01; 6:6.