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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| 1996 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 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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Cafri G, Paxton EW, Love R, Bini SA, Kurtz SM. Is There a Difference in Revision Risk Between Metal and Ceramic Heads on Highly Crosslinked Polyethylene Liners? Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2017 May; 475(5):1349-1355.
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Hu XH, Bull SA, Hunkeler EM, Ming E, Lee JY, Fireman B, Markson LE. Incidence and duration of side effects and those rated as bothersome with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor treatment for depression: patient report versus physician estimate. J Clin Psychiatry. 2004 Jul; 65(7):959-65.
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Baig N, Myers RE, Turner BJ, Grana J, Rothermel T, Schlackman N, Weinberg DS. Physician-reported reasons for limited follow-up of patients with a positive fecal occult blood test screening result. Am J Gastroenterol. 2003 Sep; 98(9):2078-81.
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Webb D, Culhane JF, Snyder S, Greenspan J. Pennsylvania's early discharge legislation: effect on maternity and infant lengths of stay and hospital charges in Philadelphia. Health Serv Res. 2001 Dec; 36(6 Pt 1):1073-83.
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Robinson JL, Nash DB. Quality, the consumer, and the Patient's Bill of Rights movement. Manag Care Interface. 2000 Oct; 13(10):69, 76.
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Finkelstein JA, Barton MB, Donahue JG, Algatt-Bergstrom P, Markson LE, Platt R. Comparing asthma care for Medicaid and non-Medicaid children in a health maintenance organization. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2000 Jun; 154(6):563-8.
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Bora FW, Beredjiklian PK. 25th Anniversary Presentation. Time to think. J Hand Surg Am. 2000 Mar; 25(2):211-3.
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Vollmer WM, Markson LE, O'Connor E, Sanocki LL, Fitterman L, Berger M, Buist AS. Association of asthma control with health care utilization and quality of life. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1999 Nov; 160(5 Pt 1):1647-52.
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Solin LJ, Schultz DJ, Hanchak NA, Kessler HB. Patterns of treatment for older women with newly diagnosed breast carcinoma. Am J Clin Oncol. 1999 Apr; 22(2):107-13.
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Izenberg N, Lieberman DA. The Web, communication trends, and children's health. Part 3: The Web and health consumers. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 1998 May; 37(5):275-85.