"Health Care Reform" 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.
Innovation and improvement of the health care system by reappraisal, amendment of services, and removal of faults and abuses in providing and distributing health services to patients. It includes a re-alignment of health services and health insurance to maximum demographic elements (the unemployed, indigent, uninsured, elderly, inner cities, rural areas) with reference to coverage, hospitalization, pricing and cost containment, insurers' and employers' costs, pre-existing medical conditions, prescribed drugs, equipment, and services.
| Descriptor ID |
D018166
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.655.500.608.400.285 I01.880.604.825.608.400.285 N03.349.285 N03.623.500.608.428.285 N04.590.374.285 N05.300.380
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| Concept/Terms |
Health Care Reform- Health Care Reform
- Health Care Reforms
- Reform, Health Care
- Reforms, Health Care
- Healthcare Reform
- Healthcare Reforms
- Reform, Healthcare
- Reforms, Healthcare
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Care Reform" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Care Reform" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2004 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2010 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 2011 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2012 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Care Reform" by people in Profiles.
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Kaminski M. What is Population Health? Ten Years On?. Popul Health Manag. 2020 12; 23(6):404-406.
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Schapira MM, Williams M, Balch A, Baron RJ, Barrett P, Beveridge R, Collins T, Day SC, Fernandopulle R, Gilberg AM, Henley DE, Nguyen Howell A, Laine C, Miller C, Ryu J, Schwarz DF, Schwartz MD, Stevens J, Teisberg E, Yamaguchi K, Schapira E, Hubbard RA. Seeking Consensus on the Terminology of Value-Based Transformation Through use of a Delphi Process. Popul Health Manag. 2020 06; 23(3):243-255.
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Nash R, Nash DB. Payment Models in the Era of Health Care Reform and Population Health. Surg Innov. 2018 04; 25(2):97-98.
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Kurtz SM, Lau EC, Ong KL, Adler EM, Kolisek FR, Manley MT. Has Health Care Reform Legislation Reduced the Economic Burden of Hospital Readmissions Following Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty? J Arthroplasty. 2017 11; 32(11):3274-3285.
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Jessie AT, Swan BA. Leveraging National Reports to Transform Ambulatory Care Practice. Nurs Econ. 2017 Mar-Apr; 35(2):96-9.
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Kurtz SM, Lau E, Ong KL, Katz JN, Bozic KJ. Universal Health Insurance Coverage in Massachusetts Did Not Change the Trajectory of Arthroplasty Use or Costs. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2016 May; 474(5):1090-8.
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Doran JP, Zabinski SJ. Bundled payment initiatives for Medicare and non-Medicare total joint arthroplasty patients at a community hospital: bundles in the real world. J Arthroplasty. 2015 Mar; 30(3):353-5.
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Nash DB. Population health: moving forward. Popul Health Manag. 2014 Feb; 17(1):1-2.
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Kelly PJ. An historic time. Public Health Nurs. 2014 Jan-Feb; 31(1):1-2.
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Barach P, Phelps G. Clinical sensemaking: a systematic approach to reduce the impact of normalised deviance in the medical profession. J R Soc Med. 2013 Oct; 106(10):387-90.