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Healthcare Management Resources

Business Books and Healthcare Books

Healthcare management books are generally found in the H and R Library of Congress Classification sections. These books are located on the basement, first and second floors of the tower in the library. They may also be located in the folio section on the first floor if the books are oversized. The H and R classification sections can be broken into the following subdivisions:

H
Social Sciences (General)
HA
Statistics
HB
Economic Theory
HC-HD
Economic History and Conditions
HF
Commerce
 
Employment ; [HF 5381-5384]
HG
Finance
HJ
Public Finance
R
Medicine (General)
RA Public Aspects of Medicine
RC Internal Medicine
RM Therapeutics and Pharmacology
RS Pharmacy and Materia Medica
RT Nursing

Reference Sources

Directories

Available on FirstSearch.
A compilation of business and industry facts, figures, and key events from over 1,360 sources. Updated daily.

BusinessOrgs - Business Organizations, Agencies, and Publication Directory. Gale Research, Inc.
Available on FirstSearch.

Disclosure - Disclosure Corporate Snapshots.Disclosure Inc.
Available on FirstSearch.
A database of financial reports for more than 12,000 publicly owned U.S. companies.

Edgar
[http://www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm]
SEC depository; financial documents, annual reports and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Hoover’s Handbook of Private Companies: Profiles of Major U.S. Private Enterprises. Austin, TX: Reference Press, 2004.
[Ref. HG 4057 .A28616]

Hoover’s Handbook of American Business: Profiles of 750 Major U.S. Companies. 2v. Austin, TX: Reference Press, 2003.
[Ref. HG 4057 .A28617]

Hoover’s Handbook of Emerging Companies: Profile of America’s Most Exciting Growth Enterprises. Austin, TX: Reference Press, 2004.
[Ref. HG 4057 .A28618]

Hoover’s Masterlist of U.S. Companies. 2v. Austin, TX: The Reference Press, 2004.
[Ref. HF 5035 .H66]

Federal Directories

National Institutes of Health
[http://www.nih.gov/]]

United States Department of Health and Human Services
[http://www.hhs.gov/]

United States Government Manual. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2003.
[Ref. JK 421 .A3]

State/Local Directories and Resources

Access Indiana Information Network
[http://www.ai.org/]
Official website of the state of Indiana.

The Book of the States. Lexington, KY: Council of State Governments, 2004.
[Ref. JK2403 .B5]

CQ’s State Fact Finder 2004 / Kendra and Harold Hovey. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2004.
[Ref. HA 214.V36]

Indiana Family and Social Services Administration--Medicaid.
[http://www.in.gov/fssa/servicedisabl/medicaid/index.html]

Illinois Industrial Directory. Twinsburg, OH: Harris InfoSource, 2000.
[Ref. HD9727.I3 H37]

Illinois Services Directory. Evanston, IL: Manufacturers’ News, Inc., 1997.
[Ref. HC107.I3 I62]

Indiana Business Research Center.
[http://www.ibrc.indiana.edu/]

Indiana Industrial Directory.Twinsburg, OH: Harris InfoSource, 2000.
[Ref. HD9727.I6 H37]

Indiana State Department of Health
[http://www.in.gov/isdh]

Indiana State Department of Health Regulatory Services
[http://www.in.gov/isdh/regsvcs/index.htm]



Handbooks and Other Reference Sources:
Business

The 1995 Information Please Women’s Sourcebook / Lisa Dimona and Constance Herndon. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994.
[Ref. HQ 2039 .U5 I64 1995]

Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary: A Guide to Acronyms, Abbreviations, Contractions, Alphabetic Symbols, and Similar Condensed Appellations. 2v.; v.1 has 3 parts. Detroit: Gale Research, 2001.
[Ref. P 365 .A28 v.1]
[Ref. P 365 .A28 v.2]

Business and Economy (Yahoo).
[http://dir.yahoo.com/business/]
From the business page at the Yahoo Internet site, one may retrieve a wide variety of business information including stock quotes.

Business Information: How to Find it, How to Use it / Michael R. Lavin. 2nd ed., new and expanded ed. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1992.
[Ref. HF 5356 .L36 1991]

Business Information Sources / Lorna M. Daniells. 3rd ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.
[Ref. Z 7164 .C81 D16 1993]

Dictionary of Business and Management / Jerry M. Rosenberg. New York: J. Wiley, 1993.
[Ref. HF 1001 .R79 1993]

Dictionary of Marketing Terms. 2nd ed. Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Business Books, 1995.
[Ref. HF 5415 .D4874 1995]

Employment Law Handbook: A Complete Reference for Business / Stephen L. Berry. Rockville, MD: Govt. Institutes, Inc., 1993.
[Ref. KF 3455 .E473 1993]

Oxford Dictionary for the Business World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
[Ref. HF 1001 .O96 1993]

Handbooks and Other Reference Sources:
Healthcare

American College of Healthcare Executives
[http://ache.org/]

American Health Information Management Association
[http://www.ahima.org/]

American Hospital Association Resource Center
[http://www.hospitalconnect.com/aha/resource_center/index.html]

Black’s Medical Dictionary / G. Macpherson. 38th ed. Lanham, MD. Barnes & Noble, 1995.
[Ref. R 121 .B5 1995]

Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.
[http://www.chcs.org]

Catholic Health Association Web Links
[www.chausa.org/OTHLINKS.ASP]

Electronic Policy Network’s Moving Ideas Health Policy Page
[http://movingideas.org/content/en/issue_items/health.htm]

Green Book Overview of Entitlement Programs, 1998
[http://aspe.hhs.gov/98gb/intro.htm]

A Guide to Treatments That Work. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
[Ref. RC 480.5 .G85 1998]

From the health page at the Yahoo Internet site, one may retrieve a wide variety of health information.

Healthcare Intelligence Network's Healthcare Business Headline News
[www.hin.com/daildAnchors]



Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
[http://www.jcaho.org/]

The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. Rahway, NJ: Merck & Co., 1987.
[Ref. RC 55 .M4 1987]


Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary. St. Louis: C.V. Mosby Co., 1990.
[Ref. R 121 .M89 1990]

Pam Pohly's Net Guide: Toolbox for Health Administration
[www.members.aol.com/pjpohly/admin.htm]

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
[http://www.rwjf.org/index.jsp]

The State of Managed Care Quality 2001
[http://www.ncqa.org/somc2001/]

Transcultural and Multicultural Health Links
[http://web.nmsu.edu/~ebosman/trannurs/index.shtml]

What To Do When You Can't Afford Health Care. Kensington, MD: Information USA, 1993.
[Ref. RA 410.53 .L44 1993]

Statistical Resources

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
[http://www.ahcpr.gov/]

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
[http://cms.hhs.gov/]

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
[http://hcup.ahrq.gov/HCUPnet.asp]


National Center for Health Statistics Site Index
[www.cdc.gov/nchs/siteindex.htm]


2000 Census Data. Washington, D.C.: United States Census Bureau.
[http://www.census.gov/]

2000 County and City Extra: Annual Metro, City, and County Data Book. Lanham, MD: Bernan Press, 2000.
[Ref. HA 203.C68]

Bureau of Labor Statistics.
[http://www.bls.gov]

Publications of the United States Census Bureau. Washington, D.C.: United States Census Bureau.
[http://www.census.gov/prod/www/titles.html]

Statistical Abstract of the United States. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003.
[Ref. HA 202 .S8]

Statistical Abstract of the World. New York: Gale Research, 1994.
[Ref. HA 155 .S7 1994]

Statistical Record of Women Worldwide / Linda Schmittroth. New York: Gale Research, 1995.
[HQ1150.S73 1995]

Healthcare Management Associations

American College of Healthcare Executives(ACHE)
[http://www.ache.org/]

American Hospital Association
[http://www.aha.org/]

Association of University Programs in Health Administration
[http://www.aupha.org/]

Healthcare Financial Management Association
[http://www.hfma.org/]

Medical Group Management Association
[http://www.mgma.com/]

Employment

American Medical Association Employment
[www.ama-assn.org/employ/position/position.htm]

The Chicago Job Bank 2003. Holbrook, MA: Adams Media Corp., 2002.
[Ref. HF 5382.5 .U6 I53]

Dictionary of Occupational Titles / U.S. Department of Labor. 4th ed. rev.1991. 2v. Hawthorne, NJ: The Career Press, Inc., 1992.
[Ref. HB 2595 .U543 1992]



Occupational Outlook Handbook / Bureau of Labor Statistics. U.S. Department of Labor. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004.
[Ref. HF5382.5 .U5 O3]

Pam Pohly's Net Guide: Health Care & Medical Employment
[www.pohly.com/post.html]

Indexes to Journals

Available on FirstSearch.
Provides full text from over 535 sources including regional publications and major newspapers.

Available on FirstSearch.
Provides over 795 sources on practical aspects and approaches to business. Updated weekly.

Business Periodicals Index.
[Bibl. Z 7164 .C81 B983]
Covers business periodicals from 1958 to January 2003.

Available on EBSCOHost.
Provides cumulative indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,440 business journals and cumulative full text for over 1,830 journals.

Healthcare Indexes

Available on EBSCOHost.
This database provides full text coverage for nearly 130 well-known administrative journals. Critical for hospital administrators and managers, this database includes publications covering the business of health care administration and much more.

Available on EBSCOHost.
Includes about 300 full text, consumer health periodicals, and more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems Reports. Also includes Clinical Pharmacology which provides access to current drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplement, over-the-counter products and new drugs.

Available on EBSCOHost.
Nursing/Academic Edition provides over 520 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.

Available on EBSCOHost.
Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,000 current biomedical journals.

General Indexes

Available on EBSCOHost.
Provides full text for nearly 1,320 sources, and indexing and abstracts for over 2,550 journals.
Approximately 1,650 journals are peer reviewed.

FirstSearch is a collection of informational databases as well as national and international indexes to periodical articles, books, dissertations, and conference proceedings. Many of the periodical indexes include full-text journal articles.

GPO Monthly Catalog.
Available on FirstSearch.
Indexes materials published by the U.S. Government Printing Office since July 1976.

Available on EBSCOHost.
Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 2,700 periodicals, plus searchable full text for nearly 2,050 general periodicals.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature.
[Bibl. AI 3 .R48]
Core list of popular magazines from 1983 to the present.

CCSJ Management and Healthcare Periodicals

Note:Full text articles are available from the following periodicals via EBSCOHost: Health Business FullTEXT, MasterFILE Premier, Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Health Source-Consumer Edition and Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition. Checking off the boxes of multiple databases allows you to search those databases simultaneously.

No asterisk indicates Business Source Premier
* Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
** MasterFILE Premier
*** Academic Search Premier

  • Academy of Management Executive
  • Academy of Management Journal
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Academy of Management Review
  • AHA News
  • American Journal of Public Health
  • Association Management
  • Australian Journal of Management
  • Behavioral Health Management***
  • Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science
  • British Journal of Management
  • California Management Review
  • Canadian Manager
  • CMA Management
  • CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal*
  • Disability & Rehabilitation*
  • European Financial Management
  • Family Practice Management*
  • Financial Accountability and Management
  • Financial Management
  • Financial Management (CIMA)
  • FoodService Director
  • Formulary
  • Frontiers of Health Services Management
  • Harvard Management Communication Letter
  • Harvard Management Update
  • Hastings Center Report*
  • HD: Hospital Development
  • Health Care Financing Review
  • Health Facilities Management
  • Health Forum Journal
  • Health Management Technology
  • Health Services Industry Yearbook 12/98-12/01
  • Healthcare Executive
  • Healthcare Financial Management
  • Healthcare Forum Journal*
  • Healthcare Purchasing News
  • Hospital Topics
  • Human Systems Management
  • International Journal of Commerce & Management
  • International Journal of Management Reviews
  • International Studies of Management and Organization
  • Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions*
  • Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
  • Journal of Health Care Marketing
  • Journal of Healthcare Management
  • Journal of Management Accounting Research
  • Journal of Management Information Systems
  • Journal of Managerial Issues
  • Journal of Nursing Management*
  • Journal of Small Business Management
  • Lancet*
  • Manage
  • Managed Healthcare
  • Managed Healthcare Executive
  • Management Quarterly
  • Management Science
  • Management Today
  • Managing Training & Development
  • Marketing Health Services
  • Marketing Management
  • Materials Management in Health Care
  • Medical Benefits
  • Medical Marketing & Media
  • MIT Sloan Management Review 9/96-10/04
  • Modern Healthcare
  • Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management
  • Nursing Management
  • Pharmaceutical Executive
  • Pharmaceuticals Industry Profile (various countries)
  • Pharmaceuticals Policy & Law
  • PharmacoEconomics
  • Physician’s Management**
  • Project Management Journal
  • Public Management
  • Records Management Quarterly
  • Research in Healthcare Financial Management
  • Research Technology Management**
  • SAM Advanced Management Journal
  • Sales & Marketing Management
  • Sloan Management Review 9/96-10/04
  • South African Journal of Business Management
  • Supervisory Management 7/93-3/96
  • Total Quality Management
  • Trustee
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