Professional Review Organizations

"Professional Review 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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Organizations representing designated geographic areas which have contracts under the PRO program to review the medical necessity, appropriateness, quality, and cost-effectiveness of care received by Medicare beneficiaries. Peer Review Improvement Act, PL 97-248, 1982.

Descriptor ID

D011366

MeSH Number(s)

N04.761.673

N05.700.675

Concept/Terms

Professional Review Organizations

Utilization and Quality Control Peer Review Organizations

Professional Standards Review Organizations

Peer Review Organizations

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Professional Review Organizations".

Health Care [N]
Health Services Administration [N04]
Quality of Health Care [N04.761]
Professional Review Organizations [N04.761.673]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Quality Assurance, Health Care [N05.700]
Professional Review Organizations [N05.700.675]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Professional Review Organizations".

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Professional Review Organizations" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Professional Review Organizations" was a major or minor topic of these publication.

Bar chart showing 14 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2000

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1994	1	1	2
1996	1	0	1
1997	1	0	1
1999	0	1	1
2000	0	3	3
2001	1	0	1
2002	1	0	1
2003	0	1	1
2009	0	1	1
2012	0	2	2

Below are the most recent publications written about "Professional Review Organizations" by people in Profiles.

Integrating value of research into NCI Clinical Trials Cooperative Group research review and prioritization: A pilot study. Cancer Med. 2018 09; 7(9):4251-4260.

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Introducing the Wiley Transplant Peer Review Network. Am J Transplant. 2016 Sep; 16(9):2505-7.

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Inspecting the Inspector General's report on cataract surgery in the United States Veterans Health Administration. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2013 Dec; 39(12):1930-2.

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2012 American College of Cardiology Foundation/Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions expert consensus document on cardiac catheterization laboratory standards update: American College of Cardiology Foundation Task Force on expert consensus documents Society of Thoracic Surgeons Society for Vascular Medicine. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2012 Sep 01; 80(3):E37-49.

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2012 American College of Cardiology Foundation/Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions expert consensus document on cardiac catheterization laboratory standards update: A report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Task Force on Expert Consensus documents developed in collaboration with the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Society for Vascular Medicine. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Jun 12; 59(24):2221-305.

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Big science, little science. EMBO Rep. 2009 Dec; 10(12):1282.

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Quality improvement organizations and hospital care. JAMA. 2005 Oct 26; 294(16):2029; author reply 2030.

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Strengthening the consumer voice in managed care: VI. Initial lessons from independent external review. Psychiatr Serv. 2003 Jan; 54(1):24-5.

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Discrepancies between explicit and implicit review: physician and nurse assessments of complications and quality. Health Serv Res. 2002 Apr; 37(2):483-98.

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Physician-reviewers' perceptions and judgments about quality of care. Int J Qual Health Care. 2001 Oct; 13(5):357-65.

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