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.

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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
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
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

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Health Maintenance Organizations".

Health Care [N]
Health Care Economics and Organizations [N03]
Economics [N03.219]
Financing, Organized [N03.219.521]
Insurance [N03.219.521.576]
Insurance, Health [N03.219.521.576.343]
Managed Care Programs [N03.219.521.576.343.800]
Health Maintenance Organizations [N03.219.521.576.343.800.400]
Prepaid Health Plans [N03.219.521.576.343.925]
Health Maintenance Organizations [N03.219.521.576.343.925.400]
Health Services Administration [N04]
Organization and Administration [N04.452]
Professional Practice [N04.452.758]
Group Practice [N04.452.758.244]
Health Maintenance Organizations [N04.452.758.244.425]
Patient Care Management [N04.590]
Delivery of Health Care [N04.590.374]
Managed Care Programs [N04.590.374.410]
Health Maintenance Organizations [N04.590.374.410.400]

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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Health Maintenance Organizations".

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Maintenance Organizations" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Maintenance Organizations" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 58 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2004 and 2006

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1995	1	2	3
1996	1	0	1
1998	1	0	1
1999	1	2	3
2000	1	3	4
2001	1	2	3
2002	4	1	5
2003	1	1	2
2004	4	5	9
2005	2	2	4
2006	2	7	9
2007	2	3	5
2008	0	3	3
2009	1	1	2
2010	0	2	2
2012	0	1	1
2013	0	1	1

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Kulldorff M, Dashevsky I, Avery TR, Chan AK, Davis RL, Graham D, Platt R, Andrade SE, Boudreau D, Gunter MJ, Herrinton LJ, Pawloski PA, Raebel MA, Roblin D, Brown JS. Drug safety data mining with a tree-based scan statistic. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2013 May; 22(5):517-23.

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Mazor KM, Roblin DW, Greene SM, Lemay CA, Firneno CL, Calvi J, Prouty CD, Horner K, Gallagher TH. Toward patient-centered cancer care: patient perceptions of problematic events, impact, and response. J Clin Oncol. 2012 May 20; 30(15):1784-90.

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Davis RL, Eastman D, McPhillips H, Raebel MA, Andrade SE, Smith D, Yood MU, Dublin S, Platt R. Risks of congenital malformations and perinatal events among infants exposed to calcium channel and beta-blockers during pregnancy. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2011 Feb; 20(2):138-45.

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Harrold LR, Mazor KM, Velten S, Ockene IS, Yood RA. Patients and providers view gout differently: a qualitative study. Chronic Illn. 2010 Dec; 6(4):263-71.

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Blake DR. Approaches to Chlamydia screening: one size does not fit all. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2009 Jun; 163(6):585-6.

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Brown JS, Kulldorff M, Petronis KR, Reynolds R, Chan KA, Davis RL, Graham D, Andrade SE, Raebel MA, Herrinton L, Roblin D, Boudreau D, Smith D, Gurwitz JH, Gunter MJ, Platt R. Early adverse drug event signal detection within population-based health networks using sequential methods: key methodologic considerations. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2009 Mar; 18(3):226-34.

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Ivanova JI, Birnbaum HG, Hsieh M, Yu AP, Seal B, van der Molen T, Emani S, Rosiello RA, Colice GL. Adherence to inhaled corticosteroid use and local adverse events in persistent asthma. Am J Manag Care. 2008 Dec; 14(12):801-9.

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Newton KM, Buist DS, Yu O, Hartsfield CL, Andrade SE, Wei F, Connelly MT, Chan KA. Hormone therapy initiation after the Women's Health Initiative. Menopause. 2008 May-Jun; 15(3):487-93.

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Andrade SE, Raebel MA, Brown J, Lane K, Livingston J, Boudreau D, Rolnick SJ, Roblin D, Smith DH, Dal Pan GJ, Scott PE, Platt R. Outpatient use of cardiovascular drugs during pregnancy. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2008 Mar; 17(3):240-7.

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Field TS, Doubeni C, Fox MP, Buist DS, Wei F, Geiger AM, Quinn VP, Lash TL, Prout MN, Yood MU, Frost FJ, Silliman RA. Under utilization of surveillance mammography among older breast cancer survivors. J Gen Intern Med. 2008 Feb; 23(2):158-63.

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