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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| 1995 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1997 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 1998 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1999 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Maintenance Organizations" by people in Profiles.
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WHL Note on the Kaiser Permanente Article. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2016 Apr; 18(4):259.
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Suicide in a health maintenance organization population. JAMA Psychiatry. 2015 Mar; 72(3):294-6.
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Translation of hypertension treatment guidelines into practice: a review of implementation. J Am Soc Hypertens. 2011 Jul-Aug; 5(4):197-207.
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Health economics perspective of the components of the cardiometabolic syndrome. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2010 Jul 01; 12(7):549-55.
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Relationship of oral antihyperglycemic (sulfonylurea or metformin) medication adherence and hemoglobin A1c goal attainment for HMO patients enrolled in a diabetes disease management program. J Manag Care Pharm. 2006 Jul-Aug; 12(6):466-71.
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Medicare HMO penetration and mortality outcomes of ischemic stroke. Am J Manag Care. 2006 Jan; 12(1):58-64.
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Perspectives on the value of American Society of Clinical Oncology clinical guidelines as reported by oncologists and health maintenance organizations. J Clin Oncol. 2003 Mar 01; 21(5):937-41.
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Categorizing race and ethnicity in the HMO Cancer Research Network. Ethn Dis. 2002; 12(1):135-40.
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Clustering and the design of preference-assessment surveys in healthcare. Health Serv Res. 1999 Dec; 34(5 Pt 1):1033-45.
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Using administrative data to compare the relative effectiveness of amlodipine vs nifedipine CC. Am J Manag Care. 1999 Dec; 5(12):1535-40.