Medicare

"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.

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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
MeSH Number(s)	N03.219.521.346.506.564.663 N03.219.521.576.343.840 N03.706.615.696
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 Insurance, Health, for Aged and Disabled Insurance, Health, for Aged and Disabled

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Medicare".

Health Care [N]
Health Care Economics and Organizations [N03]
Economics [N03.219]
Financing, Organized [N03.219.521]
Financing, Government [N03.219.521.346]
Public Assistance [N03.219.521.346.506]
Medical Assistance [N03.219.521.346.506.564]
Medicare [N03.219.521.346.506.564.663]
Insurance [N03.219.521.576]
Insurance, Health [N03.219.521.576.343]
Medicare [N03.219.521.576.343.840]
Social Control, Formal [N03.706]
Legislation as Topic [N03.706.615]
Medicare [N03.706.615.696]

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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.

Bar chart showing 104 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 12 publications in 2007

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1994	1	0	1
2002	2	2	4
2003	3	1	4
2004	3	3	6
2005	5	3	8
2006	5	3	8
2007	2	10	12
2008	6	5	11
2009	3	2	5
2010	2	7	9
2011	2	2	4
2012	2	3	5
2013	2	3	5
2014	2	2	4
2015	5	3	8
2016	0	2	2
2017	1	3	4
2018	1	0	1
2019	0	1	1
2020	1	0	1
2021	0	1	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Medicare" by people in Profiles.

Smith JM, Jarrín OF, Lin H, Tsui J, Dharamdasani T, Thomas-Hawkins C. Racial Disparities in Post-Acute Home Health Care Referral and Utilization among Older Adults with Diabetes. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 03 19; 18(6).

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Rahman M, White EM, Thomas KS, Jutkowitz E. Assessment of Rural-Urban Differences in Health Care Use and Survival Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementia. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 10 01; 3(10):e2022111.

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Rocque GB, Williams CP, Hathaway AR, Halilova KI, Stricker CT, Coombs NC, Dudley WN, Thomas KA, Gaguski M, Crist S, Kozlik MM, Larkin P, Cadden A, Jones MI. Evaluating the Impact of Treatment Care Planning on Quality Measures. J Oncol Pract. 2019 03; 15(3):e271-e276.

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Birmingham LE, Oglesby WH. Readmission rates in not-for-profit vs. proprietary hospitals before and after the hospital readmission reduction program implementation. BMC Health Serv Res. 2018 01 19; 18(1):31.

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Tepper SJ, Duplin J, Nye B, Tepper DE. Prescribing Oxygen for Cluster Headache: A Guide for the Provider. Headache. 2017 Oct; 57(9):1428-1430.

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Jutkowitz E, Kane RL, Gaugler JE, MacLehose RF, Dowd B, Kuntz KM. Societal and Family Lifetime Cost of Dementia: Implications for Policy. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2017 Oct; 65(10):2169-2175.

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Jutkowitz E, Kane RL, Dowd B, Gaugler JE, MacLehose RF, Kuntz KM. Effects of Cognition, Function, and Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms on Medicare Expenditures and Health Care Utilization for Persons With Dementia. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2017 Jun 01; 72(6):818-824.

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O'Connor M, Hanlon A, Mauer E, Meghani S, Masterson-Creber R, Marcantonio S, Coburn K, Van Cleave J, Davitt J, Riegel B, Bowles KH, Keim S, Greenberg SA, Sefcik JS, Topaz M, Kong D, Naylor M. Identifying distinct risk profiles to predict adverse events among community-dwelling older adults. Geriatr Nurs. 2017 Nov - Dec; 38(6):510-519.

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Berry JG, Hall M, Dumas H, Simpser E, Whitford K, Wilson KM, O'Neill M, Mittal V, Agrawal R, Dribbon M, Haines CJ, Traul C, Marks M, O'Brien J. Pediatric Hospital Discharges to Home Health and Postacute Facility Care: A National Study. JAMA Pediatr. 2016 Apr; 170(4):326-33.

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Moten AS, Thibault DP, Willis AW, Willis AI. Demographics, disparities, and outcomes in substernal goiters in the United States. Am J Surg. 2016 Apr; 211(4):703-9.

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