Health Care Management Sources

Locate Articles in Library Databases

Healthcare

PubMed (Medline)
The premier medical research database; includes medical/health care business administration materials.  Citations/abstracts, some links to full text for articles, books, book chapters, and research reports in the medical and allied health fields.  Produced by the National Library of Medicine.

Health Reference Center - Academic  
Access to journals in the health and nursing fields with selected full text. 

Academic and professional

Academic Search Premier
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database. Provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975

Expanded Academic ASAP
Indexing, abstracts (summaries) or full text for articles from a large selection of scholarly & general interest publications. Strongest in humanities, social sciences, non-technical general sciences & current events. 1980- .

Business Source Premier   
Business Source Premier provides access to nearly 3,300 full text general, professional and scholarly publications, including more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals covering many business topics such as healthcare, finance, human resources, and economics.

News and commentary

Proquest Newsstand Complete
Full text of 300+ U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires.

Identify Books

CLICnet 
This is the book catalog for UST Libraries and several other local Universities.  Books can be requested from other campuses online.  CLICnet is available both on campus and off via the UST Libraries Web site.

MNCat      
LUMINA is the catalog for the research level collections of the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities, including the Bio-Medical Library.

Worldcat  
WorldCat, OCLC's combined catalog of all member libraries, has more than 28 million bibliographic records representing information spanning 4000 years of knowledge.  

Use Qualified Web Sites

Comprehensive Sites:
Moving Ideas: The Electronic Policy Network - Health  
Links to a variety of health care policy and research sites.

HealthWeb: Health Administration - Policy                                                                               The University of Michigan Public Health department has compiled this set of links to policy-centered entities, governmental organizations, and online journals.

Pam Pohly's Net Guide > Health Administration Guides > Law, Ethics, Accreditation &Compliance   Designed for managers and administrators working in health care.  Links to many policy-producing entities, government agencies, and data sources.

Government Agency Sites:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Policies and Regulations  
This section of the HHS site provides links to the key agencies, reports, and  official site for the Department of Health and Human Services containing information on health and policy issues, statistics, health services research, and links to government sites and research institutions.

Agency for Health Care Research and Quality 
The mission of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (a division of HHS) is to support research that enhances the quality of health care, increases access to resources, and reduces the cost of care.  Their web site has information on the policy and clinical research papers they publish; some, but not all publications are available full-text on the site.

National Center for Health Statistics                                                                                         The principal health data collection agency in the U.S. The site is designed to provide quick and easy access to a wide range of information and data, an  overview of major data collection activities, and data findings. The web site has links to additional sources of health information and provides for e-mail queries of  specific questions.

Minnesota Department of Health 
The Minnesota Department of health site has information on Minnesota's health policies, reform movements, health statistics, profiles for the state, professional information and links to other health related web sites.

Legislative Sites:

HealthWeb: Health Administration - Policy                                                                               This site includes links to the the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, and the US Code as well as topical finding aids such as THOMAS and GPO Access.

Congressional Budget Office - Publications - Health
The CBO's mission is to provide the Congress with the objective, timely, nonpartisan analyses needed for economic and budget decisions.  These reports can be found online in the Publications section.

Government Accountability Office - Reports and Testimony
The GAO studies how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars. It advises Congress and the heads of executive agencies (such as HHS) about ways to make government more effective and responsive. The Reports and Testimony section is searchable by agency, topic, or date.

Research consultations

Professional reference service is available at both the St. Paul and Minneapolis campus libraries. If you are interested in a research consultation, contact:

Ryan Carter, Minneapolis, (651) 962-4646, cart1589@stthomas.edu
Marianne Hageman, St. Paul, (651) 962-5404, mdhageman@stthomas.edu
Eric Kallas, St. Paul, (651) 962-5013, epkallas@stthomas.edu
Andrea Koeppe, Minneapolis, (651) 962-4647, arhudson@stthomas.edu
Janice Kragness, Minneapolis, (651) 962-4645, jlkragness@stthomas.edu