Research Guides

Health Sector Management

This guide is intended as a starting point for those interested in the health sector/industry. Resources designated with the notation can be accessed on or off campus via Boston University connections by BU students only. For details, see Connecting to Library Databases. Resources designated with represent books that circulate or require in-library use depending on their status. For alumni access information see SMG Alumni Services. For further assistance, please call the library at 617 353-4303 or ask at the Reference/Information Desk.

Articles & Research Studies

ABI/INFORM Global
Provides full text articles from over 600 business publications, academic management journals, and the Wall Street Journal; also provides indexing and abstracts for an additional 800 titles. 

AgeLine Database
http://www.aarp.org/research/ageline/
is produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). AgeLine includes summaries of journal articles, books and chapters, research reports, dissertations, gray literature, and educational videos from many publishers and organizations, including the AARP.

Alt-Health Watch
ALT-HEALTH WATCH is a full-text database of periodicals, peer-reviewed journals, academic and professional publications, magazines, consumer newsletters and newspapers, research reports, and association newsletters focused on complementary, alternative and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.

Business Source Complete
Indexes abstracts, and provides full text of business publications, scholarly publications and peer-reviewed journals. It covers over 8,000 journals with full text for over 4,000 of these titles.

Child Development & Adolescent Studies
Contains "references to the current and historical literature related to the growth and development of children through the age of 21. Included are book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals, and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations that cover the biomedical and social sciences worldwide. Over 10,000 new records added each year. " Coverage is from 1927 to the present.

CINAHL via Ovid (Access via library terminals or apply here for remote password)
A database available on the BUMC MEDLINE Plus/OVID system (login name and password required). The database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health, including publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing. CINAHL dates from 1982 to the present.

Ethnic NewsWatch
ETHNIC NEWSWATCH is a full-text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. The database contains more than 1.1 million articles from more than 260 publications. Searchable in both English and Spanish, it includes more than 237,000 articles in Spanish. Coverage is from 1990 to the present.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library
A Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center. All in a single, easy-to-use database, The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.

General Science Full Text
A database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Full Text also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Indexing begins with May 1984. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.

LexisNexis Academic
LEXISNEXIS ACADEMIC is a full-text database that includes newspapers, wire services, transcripts of television and radio broadcasts, medical and health journals, trade journals, accounting literature, company financial reports, law reviews, statutory and case law, and public opinion polls. The database is international in scope, and includes newspapers in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, and German. Dates of coverage vary depending upon the publication.

Medline via ISI

Medline (PubMed)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed
A product of the National Library of Medicine, PubMed is the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology.

Medline via Ovid (Access from library terminals or apply here for remote password)
The Ovid MEDLINE database contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,600 biomedical journals published in the United States and in 70 other countries. The database contains over 13 million citations dating back to the mid-1960's, including more than 130,000 population-related journal citations (unique to the former POPLINE� database) that were added to MEDLINE in October of 2002. Although coverage is worldwide, most records are derived from English-language sources or have English abstracts. Abstracts are included for more than 75% of the records.

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
PAIS (PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFORMATION SERVICE) is a bibliographic database of citations to public policy literature in books, journal articles and government documents. It includes materials published in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish . Coverage is from 1972 to date.

PILOTS Database
http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/ncmain/publications/pilots/
An index to the worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events, produced by the National Center for PTSD.

PsycINFO
A bibliographic database that indexes journal articles, dissertations, books, book chapters, technical reports, and other documents in psychology and the behavioral sciences. Coverage is from 1887 to the present.

Rand Health
www.rand.org/health
Think tank working to improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Science Citation Index Expanded
WEB OF SCIENCE is the Web interface to the citation databases from the Institute of Scientific Information. Coverage is from 1988-. The databases include: Science Citation Index Expanded. covers 5300 journals (2000 more titles than the print version) and is updated with 16,000 new records every week; Social Sciences Citation Index covers 1700 journals and is updated with 2800 new records every week; Arts & Humanities Citation Index. covers 1100 journals and is updated with 2200 new records every week. Data extracted from the Web of Science should give the following attribution to ISI: The above data are extracted from the Science Citation Index Expanded., Social Sciences Citation Index. and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Databases of the Institute for Scientific Information., Inc., ISI., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Copyright) 199_.

ScienceDirect
SCIENCE DIRECT is a Web-based information source for scientific, technical, and medical research offering access to more than 1100 full text electronic journals from 1995/96+ across 16 fields of science, including the social sciences.

Social Services Abstracts
CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,300+ serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.

Sociological Abstracts
A bibliographic database providing access to the world's literature in theoretical and applied sociology and related fields. It contains abstracts of journal articles from Sociological Abstracts since 1974, Social Planning/Policy and Development Abstracts (SOPODA) since 1979, and relevant dissertations since 1986.

Social Sciences Citation Index
WEB OF SCIENCE is the Web interface to the citation databases from the Institute of Scientific Information. Coverage is from 1983-. The databases include: Science Citation Index Expanded. covers 5300 journals (2000 more titles than the print version) and is updated with 16,000 new records every week; Social Sciences Citation Index covers 1700 journals and is updated with 2800 new records every week; Arts & Humanities Citation Index. covers 1100 journals and is updated with 2200 new records every week. Data extracted from the Web of Science should give the following attribution to ISI: The above data are extracted from the Science Citation Index Expanded., Social Sciences Citation Index. and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Databases of the Institute for Scientific Information., Inc., ISI., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Copyright) 199_.

Sport Discus
Contains citations to articles, theses and dissertations in the areas of sports medicine, exercise psychology, bio mechanics, coaching, physical education, sport law and fitness. Coverage is primarily from 1975 to the present, although citations have been selected from as far back as 1830. Many citations include descriptive abstracts.

STAT!-Ref
STAT!-REF provides access to the full text of 30 current leading clinical, biomedical textbooks on the World Wide Web, including the DSM-IV, USP DI, Mosby's GenRx, Review of General Psychiatry, and more. The program allows users to search one textbook individually, or to select up to 30 titles to be searched simultaneously. All search results, full text and tables-of-contents can be browsed and printed. Additional features include chapter bibliographies, links to relevant journal article citations from the MEDLINE database, and selected tables, figures, illustrations and video images.

TableBase
Includes statistical data on companies, products, industries, markets, demographics and countries. Tabular data is drawn from statistical annuals, trade association reports, government agencies, international organizations, newsletters and journals. Please note: When you are through using TableBase, please click on the LOGOUT button at the very top of the TableBase home page before closing your browser.

TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network)
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
A network of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. It includes a variety of resources including access to journal literature, and information on hazardous substances, genetic toxicology, chemical carcinogens, and developmental and reproductive toxicology.

Web of Science
The citation databases from the Institute of Scientific Information. Coverage is from 1978 to the present. The databases include: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

Women's Studies International
A database (citations or citations/abstracts) of over 548,000 records combining ten women's studies resources, including Women Studies Abstracts (1972-), Women's Studies Bibliography Database, Women's Studies Database (1972-), MEDLINE Subset on Women (1964-) Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research (1975-1995), Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography (1995) and four files from Women's Studies Librarian.

World Health Organization Regional Databases
http://www.who.int/library/country/regional/index.en.shtml
Regional bibliographic databases covering health material published in Africa, The Eastern Mediterranean, Latin America & Caribbean and South-East Asia.

Dictionaries/Directories/Encyclopedia's

D&B Healthcare Reference Book
Pardee Reference X HD 9994 U5 D86
Provides profiles of approximately 36,000 businesses and institutions within the healthcare industry. Healthcare supplier information includes company name, address, business description, sales, volume, and employee size. Provider information includes provider name, address, services provided, population served, and administrator. Suppliers are arranged alphabetically and geographically.

Medline Plus Encyclopedia
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html

MedTerms Medical Dictionary
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/hp.asp

Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Mugar Reference X R 121 S8 2000
This authoritative work provides the best standard medical lexicon available to medical and allied health professionals. Please note this work is located at the Mugar Memorial Library Reference Desk.

Grants and Clinical Trials

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
http://www.ahcpr.gov:80/data/
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services lists funding sources, On-line Grants database, etc.

Clinicaltrials.gov
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov
ClinicalTrials.gov provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers. It gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.

Clinical Trials Advisor

eClinical trials : planning and implementation
Law Annex R853.C55 K87 2003

COS Funding Opportunities
COS FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES is a research funding database that includes more than 20,500 grants from around the world. Updated daily, COs Funding Opportunities provides information on research, collaborative activities, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, postdoctoral positions, equipment acquisition, operating and capital expenses, and more.

Directory of biomedical and health care grants 2004 / with a guide to proposal planning and writing
Medical Reference W 22 AA1 D5985 2004

Grants.gov
http://www.grants.gov/index.jsp
Grants.gov is your source to FIND and APPLY for Federal government grants. There are over 1,000 grant programs offered by all Federal grant making agencies.

Health and Human Services Grants and Funding
http://www.hhs.gov/grants/index.shtml#funding

National Institute of Health Grants & Funding Opportunities
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/index.cfm

Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
http://phpartners.org/grants.html
A collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations, and health sciences libraries which provides timely, convenient access to selected public health resources on the Internet.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
http://www.rwjf.org/
"The largest US foundation devoted to improving the health and health care of all Americans." The web site offers information about the board of trustees, resource centers, more links to other resources, and job opportunities. Information on grant application procedures is included.

Successful grant writing : strategies for health and human service professionals
Mugar Library HV41.2 .G58 2004

Industry & Markets

ABI/INFORM Global
Provides full text articles on companies and industries that appear in trade publications, regional business publications, general business publications, and business-oriented news wire services.

American health : demographics and spending of health care consumers
Pardee: Reference Collection RA445 .A69 2005

Best of health : demographics of health care consumers
Pardee: Reference Collection RA445 .W45 2000

Business Source Complete
In addition to full text articles, this database includes company, industry, and country profiles from Datamonitor, and monographs. Incorporates regional business news.

Commonwealth Fund
www.commonwealthfund.org
"A Private foundation working toward a high performance health system. The site include various publications including
Multinational comparisons of health systems data 2006.

Healthcare marketing in transition : practical answers to pressing questions
Pardee RA410.56 .R96 1995

Industry Survey Locator
A database of industry surveys that appear in databases and in other reference material. A good place to check first for industry and product information and overviews.

Kaiser Family Foundation
http://www.kff.org/
The Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., with a growing role in global health. Unlike grant-making foundations, Kaiser develops and runs its own research and communications programs, sometimes in partnership with other non-profit research organizations or major media companies. Provides links to:

Mintel
For course related use only. Includes reports on a variety of consumer products in U.S. and U.K. (some International). Reports contain the following information: Supply Structure (brand and market share) Market Size & Trends Market Segmentation Consumer (demographic information) Retail Distribution Also includes reports on Lifestyle and Internet Retailing. Use requires registration with a BU e-mail address.

NetLibrary
NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (books that can be viewed online on a computer). NetLibrary books are searchable and accessible through the library's Web site.

Seeing what's next? : using the theories of innovation to predict industry change
Pardee HD30.28 .C54 2004

Tablebase
A database of statistical data on companies, products, industries, markets, demographics, and countries. Tabular data is drawn from statistical annuals, trade association reports, government agencies, international organizations, newsletters and journals.

Understanding the U.S. health services system
Pardee RA395.A3 B27 1999

Who's buying health care
Pardee: Reference Collection RA410.53 .W46 2005

US Government Resources

Center for Disease Control
www.cdc.gov
(CDC) is one of the 13 major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), recognized for conducting research and investigations and for its action oriented approach, works with states and other partners, to provide a system of health surveillance to monitor and prevent disease outbreaks (including bio terrorism), implement disease prevention strategies, and maintain national health statistics. CDC also guards against international disease transmission, with personnel stationed in more than 25 foreign countries.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/home/rsds.asp
US Department of Health and Human Services, provides information on Medicaid and Medicare programs, including statistics.

Health.gov
http://www.health.gov/
Is a portal to the Web sites of a number of multi-agency health initiatives and activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other Federal departments and agencies.

National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/ A part of the US Department of Health and Human Services, this web site offers gateways to various national institutes such as the National Human Genome Research Institute and the National Library of Medicine.

US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) http://www.os.dhhs.gov/ The DHHS web site contains news items and opportunities, as well as links to important government agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Catalogs & Research Guides

Search in the Boston University Library Catalog under the keywords or MEsh subject headings using such keywords as Healthcare Management, Health Care Management, Health Services Administration, Managed Care, Health Policy, Medical Policy.

See also: Alumni Medical Library; BU Alumni Medical Library Research Guides; Pardee Guides and Government Documents, Patent & Trademark Searching, Population Studies,

Worldcat
Use this catalog to identify who owns materials not available at Boston University. Includes: books, manuscripts, computer data files, maps, computer programs, musical scores, films and slides, newspapers, journals, sound recordings, magazines, videotapes. Worldcat does not include book chapters or individual articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers. Offers over 47 million records from over 40,000 libraries located in more than 75 countries and territories and includes records representing 400 languages. Materials identified in Worldcat may be requested by interlibrary loan.