Table 3.

Focus of Qualitative Research Articles (25 Most Frequently Used MeSH Terms)

MeSH Term	Count
Health services accessibility	28
Medicaid (organization and administration, economics,   utilization, legislation)	26
Efficiency, organizational	25
Organizational innovation	24
Delivery of health care, integrated	23
Health policy legislation, trends, economics)	22
Managed care programs/organization and administration	21
State health plans (organization, administration,   economics, legislation, jurisprudence)	21
Economic competition	20
Decision making, organizational	17
Health benefit plans, employee	17
Insurance coverage	17
Medicare	17
Organizational objectives	17
Health care reform	16
Leadership	16
Health care surveys	15
Total quality management	15
Administration	14
Cooperative behavior	14
Health maintenance organizations	14
Models, organizational	14
Organizational culture	14
Health services needs and demand	13
Managed care programs/economics	13

Note: Terms in parentheses indicate subcategories of parent term. PubMed uses multiple MeSH terms to describe research articles. Hence, the counts listed here indicate the most frequently used “topical” MeSH terms (i.e., excluding terms like “human” or “United States”) for the set of qualitative research articles. The list is not exhaustive of all MeSH headers or qualitative research articles in the set.