 Health Care Reform
"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.
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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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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1998 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2007 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2009 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2010 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2011 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2014 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2015 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Care Reform" by people in Profiles.
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Henry AD, Gettens J, Savageau JA, Cullen D, Landau A. Massachusetts Medicaid members that smoked in 2008: Characteristics associated with smoking status in 2014. PLoS One. 2017; 12(10):e0186144.
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Ruddy MP, Thomas-Hemak L, Meade L. Practice Transformation: Professional Development Is Personal. Acad Med. 2016 05; 91(5):624-7.
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Kapoor A, Shaffer N, Hanchate A, Roberts M, Smith K. Massachusetts Health Reform Cost Less and Was More Effective for Uninsured Individuals With Venous Thromboembolism: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. Med Care. 2016 May; 54(5):474-82.
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Gettens J, Hoffman D, Henry AD. Expenditures and use of wraparound health insurance for employed people with disabilities. Disabil Health J. 2016 Apr; 9(2):248-55.
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Perla RJ, Finke B, DeWalt DA. Learning Systems at Scale: Where Policy Meets Practice. JAMA. 2015 Nov 24; 314(20):2131-2.
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Osler T, Glance LG, Li W, Buzas JS, Hosmer DW. Survival Rates in Trauma Patients Following Health Care Reform in Massachusetts. JAMA Surg. 2015 Jul; 150(7):609-15.
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Jain SH, Powers BW, Sanghavi D. Big plans, poor execution: the importance of governmental managerial innovation to health care reform. J Gen Intern Med. 2015 Apr; 30(4):395-7.
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Hanchate AD, Kapoor A, Katz JN, McCormick D, Lasser KE, Feng C, Manze MG, Kressin NR. Massachusetts health reform and disparities in joint replacement use: difference in differences study. BMJ. 2015 Feb 20; 350:h440.
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Lee J, Ding R, Zeger SL, McDermott A, Habteh-Yimer G, Chin M, Balder RS, McCarthy ML. Impact of Subsidized Health Insurance Coverage on Emergency Department Utilization by Low-income Adults in Massachusetts. Med Care. 2015 Jan; 53(1):38-44.
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Mostashari F, Sanghavi D, McClellan M. Primary care physician-led health reform--reply. JAMA. 2014 Oct 8; 312(14):1472.
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