Health Systems & Population Health Toolkit

Databases

• PubMed Health Services Research (HSR) Queries
  PubMed searches on healthcare quality and costs.
• Business Subject Guide
  Databases available at UW (Foster Business Library), and guides to researching companies, industries and markets.
• BCC Research
  Specialized market research reports covering high-tech, energy, and healthcare sectors.
• Law Subject Guide
  Gallagher Law Library research guides
• Database of promoting health effectiveness reviews (DoPHER)
  Coverage of systematic and non-systematic reviews of effectiveness in health promotion and public health worldwide.
• HCUP: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Databases
  State, regional and national level discharge data, available for purchase. Includes State Inpatient Databases (SID), State Ambulatory Surgery Databases (SASD), State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD), Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), and Kids' Inpatient Database (KID). Free tools include AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs), Clinical Classifications Software (CCS), Comorbidity Software, and HCUPnet, a web interface to free HCUP data.
• MEPS - Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
  A set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers across the United States providing data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage.

Select Journals

• Hastings Center Report
  1996-
• Health Affairs
  1981-
  Includes Health Affairs Blog
• Harvard Business Review
  1922-
• Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
  2000-
• Milbank Quarterly
  1997-
• Modern Healthcare
  1996-

Books

• UW Libraries Search
  Search UW Libraries resources for ebooks, ejournals, databases, videos, and more.
• WorldCat
  (Formerly OCLC FirstSearch) Catalog of holdings from thousands of libraries worldwide

• Statistics Sources: Health Sciences
  UW HSL guide to sources for local, state, national and international statistics and data in the field of health sciences.
• Government Publications Subject Guide
  Provides access to publications and data produced by governmental and inter-governmental agencies at the international, national, state and local levels.
• Stedman's Medical Dictionary
• Health Care Reform Guide
  Government Publications Quick Links by Subject
• Center for Studying Health System Change
  Nonpartisan policy research organization which conducts studies of U.S. health care system.
• Commonwealth Fund
  Private foundation supporting independent research on health care issues and making grants to improve health care practice and policy. Publications include issue briefs, newsletters & health system scorecards.
• Kaiser Family Foundation
  Archived Kaiser.EDU tutorials regarding health policy issues, research methodology and government.
• Maternal and Child Health Knowledge Base
  Resources for selected MCH topics, compiled at the MCH Library at Georgetown U.
• National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR)
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Evidence Reports
  Clinical, health care services, and methodology reports from Evidence-based Practice Centers.
• Health Services/Technology Assessment Texts (HSTAT)
  Includes evidence-based reviews from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

• DSM-5-TR: Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition Text Revision

• Think Tank Search
  Grey literature search engine from Harvard Kennedy School Library and Knowledge Services
• Congressional Bills & Bill Status
  Full text of legislation from the 101st Congress (1989) to date, and bill summaries from the 93rd Congress (1973 - 1974) to date.
• Grey Literature Report
  NYAM Library report & catalog of new publications in health services and selected public health topics. 1999-2016.
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
  Index to dissertations and theses from all fields of study, 1861-present, with full text available 1997-present.
• Dissertations and Theses at UW
  Find scholarly work closely reviewed by a committee for a doctoral degree (for dissertations) or masters degree (for theses).

• U.S. & Global E-Newspapers
  UW guide to accessing subscription news through UW subscriptions.
• Washington Healthcare News
  Register for free e-mail delivery.

• Health Reform Source
  Roundup of studies and developments related to health reform.

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