 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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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2003 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2010 | 2 | 5 | 7 | | 2011 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 2012 | 2 | 5 | 7 | | 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2014 | 6 | 4 | 10 | | 2015 | 6 | 2 | 8 | | 2016 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2017 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2021 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2024 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Care Reform" by people in Profiles.
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Gallagher BD, Vohra-Khullar PD, Fuest S, Leung PB, Zucker S, Tan EX, Lo MC, Callender DM, McClintock AH, Noronha CF, Marcus EN, Yang Y, Jones D. The Primary Care Exception Rule in Internal Medicine Residency Clinic: Benefits, Disadvantages, Best Practices, and Recommendations for Reform. J Gen Intern Med. 2025 May; 40(6):1419-1423.
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Birru E, Ndayizigiye M, Wanje G, Marole T, Smith PD, Koto M, McBain R, Hirschhorn LR, Mokoena M, Michaelis A, Curtain J, Dally E, Andom AT, Mukherjee J. Healthcare workers' views on decentralized primary health care management in Lesotho: a qualitative study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2024 Jul 11; 24(1):801.
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Westergaard S, Bowden K, Astik GJ, Bowling G, Keniston A, Linker A, Sakumoto M, Schwatka N, Auerbach A, Burden M. Impact of billing reforms on academic hospitalist physician and advanced practice provider collaboration: A qualitative study. J Hosp Med. 2024 Jun; 19(6):486-494.
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Haber LA, Boudin C, Williams BA. Criminal Justice Reform Is Health Care Reform. JAMA. 2024 01 02; 331(1):21-22.
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Birru E, Ndayizigiye M, McBain R, Mokoena M, Koto M, Augusto O, Casmir E, Puttkammer N, Mukherjee J. Effects of primary healthcare reform on routine health information systems (RHISs): a mixed-methods study in Lesotho. BMJ Open. 2023 05 19; 13(5):e071414.
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Sabik LM, Eom KY, Dahman B, Li J, van Londen GJ, Bradley CJ. Breast Cancer Treatment Following Health Reform: Evidence From Massachusetts. Med Care Res Rev. 2022 06; 79(3):371-381.
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Fiscella K, Sanders MR, Carroll JK. Transforming Health Care to Address Value and Equity: National Vital Signs to Guide Vital Reforms. JAMA. 2021 Jul 13; 326(2):131-132.
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Eom KY, van Londen GJ, Li J, Dahman B, Bradley C, Sabik LM. Changes in initiation of adjuvant endocrine therapy for breast cancer after state health reform. BMC Cancer. 2021 May 01; 21(1):487.
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Gustavson AM, LeDoux CV, Stutzbach JA, Miller MJ, Seidler KJ, Stevens-Lapsley JE. Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Determinants of Practice Change in Skilled Nursing Facility Rehabilitation: Adapting to and Sustaining Value With Postacute Reform. J Geriatr Phys Ther. 2021 Apr-Jun 01; 44(2):108-118.
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Gold SB, Green LA, Westfall JM. Heeding the Call for Urgent Primary Care Payment Reform: What Do We Know about How to Get Started? J Am Board Fam Med. 2021 Mar-Apr; 34(2):424-429.
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