Florida Atlantic University Libraries

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Quality Assessment - Provides searching and links to quality of care, health plan assessment, data, and other health care issues; fact sheets and research reports on elderly healthcare, healthcare costs, long-term care, managed care, markets, mental health, primary care, and rural health.
Federal Health Information Centers and Clearinghouses

- Operated by the Federal Government, the site provides links to a large number of health information resources including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention, and Rural Information Center Health Service.

Florida Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) - OPPAGA is a research unit of the Florida Legislature under the oversight of the Joint Legislative Auditing Committee. OPPAGA conducts studies on the performance of state agencies and programs to identify ways to improve services and cut costs.
National Institutes of Health - The site provides a gateway to information on Health (Medline, MedlinePlus, Clinical Trials, publications, programs�) grants, news (NIH-related), and sciences.
Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) - Provides access to OSHA regulations, inspection data, topics, events, and outreach.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) - Provides access to information on HHS topics and its agencies, and a wide variety of topics from adoption to women�s health.

CHAS Health Data and Statistics Page - The site provides links to national health data and statistics; major health surveys such as NHANES, National Nursing Home Surveys, and the National Maternal and Infant Health Survey.
Health Hippo - Health Hippo is a collection of policy and regulatory materials related to health care, with some graphics.
HealthWeb - The site provides links to associations, foundations and organizations, government agencies, health policy, health services, hospitals, managed care and electronic discussion groups.
WWW Sources on Health Administration and Policy - Provides links to a wide variety of agencies and organizations, health data, health care companies, health care technology, health policy, hospitals and related institutions, journals, general health administration news sources, long-term care, managed care, medical/clinical information, minority and women's health issues, professional associations, public health, quality issues and gateways to other related internet sites.

Epidemiology

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) - Includes the CDCWonder database (http://wonder.cdc.gov/) of CDC reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data; a searchable database of disease information, and search feature for state health department websites.
Epidemiology Metasite - Maintained by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. University of California - San Francisco. Provides links to government agencies and international organizations, university sites, professional societies, and information on specific diseases

Ethics

Center for Bioethics. Bioethics.net. - Provides links for many topics including abortion issues, AIDS, assisted suicide, cloning and genetics, drugs, health insurance, and so on.
Ethics in Medicine - Provides searching and links on ethics in confidentiality, cross-cultural issues, do not resuscitate orders, genetics, physician-assisted suicide and many other health care delivery ethics issues.
National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL) -Includes the Ethics and Human Genetics Database by the National Information Resource on Ethics & Human Genetics, the Bioethicsline database, and other Internet sites.

Managed Care

http://www.ncqa.org/ - NCQA is �an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to evaluate and report on the quality of the nation�s managed care organizations.� Site includes the report: 2000 State of Managed Care Quality Report; and 2 searchable databases of evaluations of managed care organizations, Health Plan Report Card and NCQA's Report Card for Managed Behavioral Healthcare Organizations.
OSHA reulations - Health Care Facilities - LINKS to health and safety regulations/issues associated with health care facilities � recognition, evaluation, control, compliance & training.

Organizations

American Association of Health Plans (AAHP) - Links to government sites, research & education, home care delivery, products & services and membership information.
American College of Managed Care Medicine - A membership organization which does provide LINKS to conference information and publications, e.g. �Paving the pathway to managed care medicine.�
Florida - Agency for Health Care Administration - SEARCH & LINKS to services, health data, publications American Hospital Association
American Hospital Association - LINKS to advocacy and representation, compliance information, data sources, research & education, membership information
American College of Health Care Administrators - LINKS to state licensure requirements, certification programs, products & services, membership
American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) - LINKS to membership information &s; activities, consumer advice, publications
American Managed Behavioral Healthcare Association - LIKS to advocacy, reports &s; studies, managed behavioral healthcare, membership information
Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) - A membership organization providing a free Government Affairs information center, information about research projects, education, and certification.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - SEARCH &s; LINKS to environmental health issues
National Institute of Mental Health - LINKS to mental health-related publications and consumer, practitioner and researcher sites

Race and Ethnicity Sources

Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health - The U.S. Dept. Of Health and Human Services plan to carry out President Clinton�s �Initiative.� LINKS to information on racial & ethnic disparities in health care, infant mortality, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, immunization.

Health facilities	Long Term care
Health maintenance organizations	Managed care plan
Health planning	Managed mental health care
Health policy	Medical care
Health services administration	Medical policy
Home care services	Medically uninsured persons
Hospitals	Medicare fraud
Insurance, health	Outcome assessment (medical care)

Health facilities	RA 427, RT 86
Medical care	RA 645
Managed care plan	RA 413
Hospitals	RT 31
Health maintenance organizations	RA 413
Medical policy	RA 393

	ABI/INFORM Globals - A business and management database indexing a wide variety of business related articles and company information on over 60,000 companies worldwide.
	ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry - This database contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction and many more.
	AIDS and Cancer Research Abstracts - This comprehensive database provides bibliographic data from the worldwide scientific literature as related to AIDS, immunology, virology and cancer genetics.
	Business and Company Resource Center - Includes company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and full-text articles.
	Business Dateline - Contains citations to articles in over 800 journal titles including business, management, and trade journals.
	CINAHL (EBSCO) - The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL) database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health. Virtually all English-language publications are indexed along with the publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing. Primary journals indexed include such allied health fields as cardiopulmonary technology, health education, medical records and surgical technology. Selected journals are also indexed in the areas of consumer health, biomedicine, and health sciences librarianship.
	General BusinessFile ASAP - Covers all business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies and investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries.
	GPO Monthly Catalog - Consists of records published by the GPO since July 1976. Includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more.
	Health and Wellness Resource Center - Topics in health and medicine, medications, and wellness. Includes encyclopedias, directories, medical dictionary, magazines, journals, and newspapers.
	Health Reference Center - Academic - Provides articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc.
	Journals@Ovid Full Text - Journals@Ovid is the second generation of Ovid Full Text, which combines all the capabilities of Ovid Full Text Collections with several important features and functions. The database is an aggregate of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies.
	Kluwer Online Journals - Provides access to scholarly journals in business, law, medicine, humanities, science, and social science disciplines.
	LexisNexis Academic - Accesses over a billion full text news, magazine, legal, and business articles and reports, including newspapers, magazines and government documents, state and federal laws and regulations, case law, newsletters, company and industry information.
	LexisNexis Congressional - Provides the tools for searching the Congressional record, tracking proposed legislation by keyword and sponsor, searching the Federal register, Congressional committee schedules, finding members of Congress, and searching the National journal.
	LexisNexis Statistical - Search summaries of U.S. government statistical publications, then link to the full-text of selected publications on LexisNexis Statistical and U.S. government web sites.
	MEDLINE - The database contains a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services.
	MEDLINE - Journals published internationally, covering all areas of medicine including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and much more (most with abstracts).
	MEDLINE/PubMed - Combines Medline, the premier database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences with PreMedline, the database that provides basic citation information and abstracts before the full records are prepared and added to MEDLINE.
	OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition - Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Full-text coverage begins in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.
	OVID Online - Collection of databases covering aquatic sciences, psychology, social sciences, medical sciences, and government research reports. (Includes Journals@Ovid Full Text, Evidenced Based Medicine Reviews and CINAHL.)
	PAIS International - Consists of articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs.
	Standard and Poor's (S&P) NetAdvantage - Standard & Poor's Net Advantage provides nine of its most popular publications: Stock Reports, Industry Surveys, Corporation Records, Register, Stock Guide, Bond Guide, Earnings Guide, The Outlook, and Dividend Record.
	Wiley InterScience - access to 194 full-text journals plus 121 titles with abstracts only.

	Elsevier Science Direct - 1,100+ scholarly journals in engineering, science, and social science disciplines (Group-wide login is no longer necessary to access this database).
	Expanded Academic Index - Includes scholarly journals, news magazines and newspaper articles regarding arts and humanities, social sciences and science and technology disciplines.
	Health care management science (Online); [Amsterdam, The Netherlands] :; [serial]; 199u Full text available (Kluwer): http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1386-9620
	International journal of health planning and management (Online); Chichester, Sussex, England :; [serial]; 1996 Full text available (Wiley): http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jtoc?ID=4005
	Journal of management in medicine (Online : MCB University Press); Bradford, England :; [serial]; 19uu Full text available (Emerald): http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0268-9235.htm

PER RA 975.5 C36 C374	The case manager. [Little Rock, AR :; [serial]; 19uu
PER RA971. F77	Frontiers of health services management. [Ann Arbor, Mich. :; [serial]; 1984
PER RA 393. H 4	Health care management review. [Germantown, Md.,; [serial]; 1976
PER RA 960. H42	Health care strategic management. [Ann Arbor, Mich. :; [serial]; 1983
PER RA 971. H36	Health matrix. [Owings Mills, Md. :; [serial]; 1983
PER RA971. H45	Healthcare executive. [Chicago, IL] :; [serial]; 1985
PER RA960. H545	The Healthcare Forum journal. San Francisco, CA :; [serial]; 1987
PER RA971. 3.H412	Healthcare marketing abstracts. [Torrance, CA :; [serial]; 1986
PER RA960. A42	Hospital &s; health services administration. Chicago,; [serial]; 1976
PER RA1. I57	The International journal of health planning and management. [Chichester, Sussex, England] :; [serial]; 1985
PER RA1. J68	Journal of health and human resources administration. [Montgomery, Ala.,; [serial]; 1978
RA410. A1 J68	Journal of health care marketing. Boone, N.C. :; [serial]; 1981
RA977. A1 L66	Journal of management in medicine. Alexandria, Va.; [serial]; 1975
RA977. A1 L66	Long-term care administrator. Alexandria, Va.; [serial]; 1975
RA410. A1 J68	Marketing health services. Chicago, Ill. :; [serial]; 1997
RA960. M55	Modern healthcare. Chicago,; [serial]; 1974
RA960. Q72	QRC advisor. [Rockville, MD :; [serial]; 1984
ABSTRACTS AND INDEXES
REF Z6675. E8 W 34	Bibliography of Bioethics 1975-1981 &s; 1983-1990
PER RA 971.3. H412	Healthcare Marketing Abstracts 1988-current
REF Z6675. H75 A51	Hospital Literature Index 1957-1994
REF Z6660. C81	Index Medicus 1991-1996 (continued by its online counterpart) MEDLINE
CAREER RESOURCES
REF R697.A4 A44 1993	Allied Health Professions JArco Editorial Board. 1993
REF HF 5382. U5 C32 1999	Career Information Center New York : MacMillan Library Reference, 1999.
REF R690 F54 1997	Career Opportunities in Health Care New York : F.acts on File, c1997.
REF BF76. C38 1997	Career Paths in Psychology: Where you degree can take you Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c1997.
DIRECTORIES
REF RA 977.A1 A46	AHA Guide to the Health Care Field. Healthcare Infosource, Inc. 1998/1999.
REF RA 977. A1 A46	American Hospital Association Guide to the Health Care Field. Healthcare Infosource, Inc. 2002.
REF R850. D57	Directory of Biomedical and Health Care Grants. Oryx Press. 2001-2002.
REF R7. 12.A1 D48	Directory of Health Care Professionals. v.1-2. HCIA, Inc. 1996.
REF R733. D59 1998	Directory of Schools for Alternative and Complementary Health Care. Oryx Press, 1998.
REF R712. A1 E53	Encyclopedia of Medical Organizations and Agencies. 5th ed. Gale Research, c1994.
REF RA981. F4 P64 1991	Health Care in Florida: a Handbook and Reference. Pineapple Press, 1991.
REF R847. A44 2000/2001	Health Professions Career and Education Directory. American Medical Association.
REF R853. R46 N38	National Guide to Funding in Health. 4th ed. Foundation Center, c1995.
REF RA7.5. N37	National Health Directory. Science and Health Publications. 1999.
REF R733. L95 1997	Planning your Career in Alternative Medicine: A Guide to Degree and Certificate Programs in Alternative Health Care. Avery Pub. Group, c1997.
REF RA410.53. P56	Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac. Corporate Jobs Outlook, c1995.
REF R712. A1 W46	Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare. Gale Research Co. 2000/2001.
REF RA410.56. W67	World Healthcare Marketing Directory. Euromonitor.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS &s; DICTIONARIES
REF BJ63. E44 1998	Chadwick, Ruth (Ed.). (1998). Encyclopedia of applied ethics. v.1-v.4. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
REF QH332. C66 2001	Chadwick, Ruth (Ed.). (2001). The concise encyclopedia of the ethics of new Technologies. San Diego : Academic Press.
REF R121. M65 1997	Miller, Benjamin Frank. (1997). Miller-Keane Encyclopedia &s; dictionary of medicine, nursing &s; allied health. Philadelphia : Saunders.
REF R121. O884 2001	Oxford Medical companion. (1994). Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. Philadelphia : Saunders.
REF QH332. E52 1995	Reich, Warren Thomas (Ed.). (1995). Encyclopedia of bioethics. v.1-v.5. New York: Macmillian Pub. Co.
REF RA413. R58 1998	Rognehaugh, Richard. (1998). The Managed Health Care Dictionary. Gaithersburg, Md. : Aspen Publishers.
GUIDES/HANDBOOKS/MANUALS
REF RA966. J64	1994 Accreditation Manual for Ambulatory Health Care. JCAHO.
REF RA997. J64	1994 Accreditation Manual for Long Term Care. JACHO.
REF RA645.35. J64	1995 Accreditation Manual for Home Care. JACHO.
REF RA981. A2 J64	1995 Accreditation Manual for Hospitals. JACHO.
REF RA395. A4 F577	Florida Health Care Reference. 1994-1995. Health Trac Books.
REF RA413.5. U5 H43	Major State Health Care Policies: Fifty State Profiles, 1997. Health Policy Tracking Service. 1998.
STATISTICAL SOURCES
REF RA981. A2 A6234	American Hospital Association Hospital Statistics. American Hospital Association. 2003.
DOC Z1223. Z7 C55	American Statistics Index. 1974-. Located in Government Documents Microforms Area.
DOC HE20.7 042/6	Health United States. 1993-.
DOC Z7552. I53	Index to International Statistics. 1983-. Located in Government Documents Microforms Area.
DOC Z7554. U5 S852	Statistical Reference Index. 1980-. Located in Government Documents Microforms Area.
REF RA407. U52	Universal Healthcare Almanac. R-C Publications, 1993-.