Research Guides: Healthcare Management: Articles / Statistics

What is APA Style?

APA Style is a standardized writing format, established by the American Psychological Association, which you may need to follow when submitting projects or papers. If you have questions about APA formatting, look at our APA Style Guide.

Understanding Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the uncredited "use of another's original words or ideas as though they were your own" [What is Plagiarism? (n.d.) Retrieved from http://www.plagiarism.org/plagiarism-101/what-is-plagiarism].

To learn more about plagiarism, and how to avoid it, see our guide to Understanding Plagiarism.

RefWorks

RefWorks is a powerful online research management tool designed to help you easily gather, organize, store and share your research and to instantly generate citations and bibliographies. See our RefWorks research guide for information about using refworks.

Using Databases to Find Articles

You can search for articles in one of the library's databases. See our list of Healthcare Management databases, or the recommended databases below on this page, for a list of recommended databases to search for articles on this topic.

The research and search help page of this guide has information on using Google Scholar or EBSCO databases for your search, as well as how to use the library's journal search tool to look for an article by citation or see if the library provides access to a specific journal.

Journals

Here is a list of journals recommended by our Healthcare Management faculty:

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
Available in Academic Search Complete and Electronic Journal Center
Healthcare Executive
Articles, review articles and commentary on professional topics for managers of hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and healthcare offices.
Healthcare Financial Management
Feature articles on physician relations, medical group practices, legal issues, interviews, commentary and news of note for executives and managers in provider organizations and members of the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine
Publishes articles relating to the field of health law.
Journal of Healthcare Management
[Coverage from 1/1/00 - 11/1/16] Available in many databases including Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete, and Medline.
Marketing Health Services
Publishes articles, review articles and commentary focusing on marketing issues of the health care industry. Case studies, health care marketing tools, book review and commentaries.

Recommended Databases

Associates Program Source This link opens in a new window
Includes full-text articles in areas often covered by associate degree programs, including alcohol & drug abuse counseling, biotechnology, computer & data processing, cosmetology, culinary arts, electrical technology, fashion design, fire science, forensics, graphic arts, health information technology, interior design, law enforcement & criminal justice, travel and tourism, and more.
Business Source Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and full text covering scholarly business journals on management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and full text of the literature of nursing and allied health.
Electronic Journal Center (OhioLINK) This link opens in a new window
Full text of over 7,000 research journals.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and full text focusing on many medical disciplines.
MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,370 journals.
Nursing & Allied Health This link opens in a new window
Mix of scholarly literature, clinical training videos, reference materials, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews which takes a holistic and interdisciplinary approach.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Comprises more than 25 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
R2 Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Electronic books in health care and nursing fields.

Government Sources

Federal and state government sites can be great places to find information on demographics and social issues.

U.S. Federal Government

Search USA.gov to look for information from the federal government.

USA.gov
A website which makes it easy for the public to get U.S. government information and services on the web. This is an interagency initiative administered by the Federal Citizen Information Center, a division of the U.S. General Services Administration's Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies.

State Government

For a state government, try searching Google with your topic, state and "site:.gov". This limits just to government sites.

Google government search
Google search, limited to government sites. Put your state and search term after the "site: *.gov" in the search box.

Statistics

Data Planet
Now Available through Sage Data. Provides an all-in-one resource for social science researchers and students to access statistics relevant to their areas of study. Includes access to more than 13.5 billion U.S. and international datasets from over 90 sources. Platform includes data downloads and visualization tools. Replaces the Sage Stats and U.S. Political Stats databases. Access to data from 2017-2021, no new data sets added after 2021.

Open Access

PubMed Central
"PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)."