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2006 California Health-Related Ballot Measures Election Results http://www.healthvote.org/
2006 National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) http://www.ahrq.gov/QUAL/nhqr06/nhqr06.htm
Patient Safety:
2006 HealthGrades Quality Study (Third Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Report April 2006) http://www.healthgrades.com/media/dms/pdf/PatientSafetyInAmericanHospitalsStudy2006.pdf
There are many resources available to find articles on health care administration topics. Below are quick links to our databases related to health care administration and business. Other databases might be useful depending on your topic. For a full list of all the databases the library subscribes to, please visit the Find Articles in Databases by Title or Find Articles in Databases by Topic webpages.
After you have found citations for articles that seem relevant to your topic, you need to access the articles themselves. You can decide if they are relevant (articles you want) by looking at titles and abstracts (short summarys of the articles) in the database citation.
Getting the article (Follow these steps until you have the article in hand):
To get the article electronically:
Some articles will be available in full-text or PDF format by simply clicking a link right in the database.
If there is no direct link, look for an
link which searches for the article in any database subscribed to by CSULB and sometimes the COAST library catalog as well to let you know if CSULB has access to the article anywhere.
If SFX doesn't find the article, you should still try to find the journal in COAST on your own. Search using the Journal Title, not the article title. Make sure you know which year, volume, and number journal you need.
If it is available electonically online, you should be able to click a link and then either print the article or e-mail it to yourself.
If the journal is not available electronically, get the article in paper:
Try a COAST search using the journal title, not the article title, to see if CSULB has the journal in paper copy.
If it is available in paper form at CSULB you will have to come to the library to photocopy it. Make sure you write down the ENTIRE citation (author, title, journal title, volume, number, year, pages) from the database and the call number from COAST.
If it is not available electronically or at CSULB you can still request the article through ILLiad at The Beach Interlibrary Service . This gets the article from another library either in paper or electronically and usually takes 7-10 days. So be sure to start your research early! If you are in a hurry, you can check other library's catalogs and possibly go to that library to get the article.
Coast is used for finding books and other materials available in the CSULB Library. This is only a sampling of subject headings which may be used. Keywords may also be searched.
There is much information available on the web. However, because anyone can publish on the web, it is important to use critical thinking skills in evaluating whether the information you find is valid. Think about who put the information there and what their authority is to do so. (i.e. are they a professor at a University or just Bob in his basement?) It may be useful to click on the "About" link or other authoring information or try this website for diagnostic tips http://www.mlanet.org/resources/medspeak/meddiag.html Below are a few useful websites for health care administration.
Agency for Health Care Policy & Research (AHCPR) http://www.ahrq.gov/
The lead US agency charged with supporting research designed to improve the quality of health care, reduce its cost, and broaden access to essential services.
CalHospitalCompare.org http://www.calhospitalcompare.org/
The California HealthCare Foundation's hospital comparison Web site rates quality of care, patient satisfaction, and safety measures for hospitals.
California HealthCare Foundation http://www.chcf.org/
The Foundation's online resource for independent research, analysis and news on issues concerning health care delivery and financing in California.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) http://www.cms.hhs.gov/
Formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), it is the federal agency responsible for administering the Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance), HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments), and several other health-related programs. The CMS provides the CMS Health Care Industry Market Updates, a series of reports on the health care industry and statistics (including Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP & National Health Expenditures/Health Accounts), etc.
CRS Reports on Health Law and Policy http://www.law.umaryland.edu/Marshall/crsreports/index.asp
Thurgood Marshall Law Library web site is hosting this collection of Congressional Research Service Reports, covering such topics as abortion, health care finance, long-term care, malpractice, etc.
DIRLINE
National Library of Medicine's DIRLINE (Directory of Health Organizations) offers an A to Z list of 8,500+ organizations concerned with health and biomedicine: http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov/help/dirline/a2z_A.html DIRLINE can also be searched for specific topics: http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov/
Factline: Tracking Health in Underserved Communities http://www.factline.org
Factline, a project of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and Meharry Medical College, takes its structure from the federal government's Healthy People 2010. Factline is designed for journalists, students, community workers, and policy makers to present solid facts from scholarly research on health disparities in a brief and understandable format. Each fact presented comes supplied with the reference from the literature where it is established; each page on the site is enhanced with Google and PubMed search mechanisms to allow the interested reader to go further on the subject in either the popular or the scholarly literature.
Hospital Compare http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/
A tool that provides information on how well hospitals care for all their adult patients with certain medical conditions run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in collaboration with the Hospital Quality Alliance. It help users compare the quality of care hospitals provide.
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation www.kff.org
The Foundation is a source for timely, non-partisan, and in-depth health policy analysis and information for policymakers, the media, and the general public.
kaiserEDU www.kaiseredu.org
Developed by the Kaiser Family Foundation, kaiserEDU gives health policy students and faculty easy access to data, literature, news and developments regarding major health policy topics and debates.
Kaisernetwork.org www.kaisernetwork.org
Kaiser Family Foundation's online resource for timely and in-depth coverage of health policy news, debates and discussions. This free, multimedia service connects users to the events, people, information, and research shaping health policy and a national database of public opinion survey results on health.
KIDS COUNT State Level Online Data http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/sld/index.jsp
Was launched in Spring 2005 by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and includes around 75 measures of child well-being. Included in these 75 measures are the 10 key measures of well-being from their KIDS COUNT Data Book. The online database allows you to generate custom reports for a geographic area (Profiles) or to compare geographic areas on a topic (Ranking, Maps, and Line Graphs).
Medical Board of California http://www.medbd.ca.gov/Lookup.htm
Physician license lookup is available at their website with a list of public information that would appear on a record under Public Disclosure if applicable to the physician. Year and medical school graduated from is also included.
State Health Facts Online www.statehealthfacts.org
Kaiser Family Foundation's State Health Facts Online is a resource that contains current state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation.
University of Michigan's Documents Center Statistical Sources on the Web http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
24 broad subject categories (health, etc.) to choose from and then an alphabetical list of links within each subject. Most links allow access to anyone looking for statistics (a few of the resources restricted to UM students).
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