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Course Guide

HCM 4570 Quality & Patient Safety in Healthcare

For Jill M. Klingner
HCM 4570
Spring 2010

Selected Sources for Research

Business Periodical Databases
Other Periodical Databases
Search Engines

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Business Periodical Databases

Business and Company Resource Center
Company & industry news linked to electronic reference books. Contains histories, market shares, rankings, industry surveys, and investment reports. For this assignment, search for articles by keywords.

For this database, and the databases below,
begin your search using either
"Massachusetts Caritas Christi" or just "Caritas Christi"and other topics of your choice. Because they area associated with a number of hospitals, you may want to search caritas and hospital
or caritas and [other keyword]

Business Source Premier
Full text of over 3,400 business periodicals. This is our largest business database. It provides our best access to scholarly journals. It also has special reports, including "SWOT" analysis. Note the "company profiles" tab, which will allow you to access over 5,000 Datamonitor Company Profiles. For this assignment search for articles by keywords.

Lexis Nexis
A massive database of full text articles. Strong in the areas of news, law, and business. Also contains many trade publications.Search the Business tab to find Hoover In-Dept Reports on a company. For this assignment use the "Power Search" option and search for keywords. Limit by years, and select "Major World Publications."

NewsStand
Contains the full text of newspaper articles from over 350 titles. Provides our only source of electronic access to the Wall Street Journal. Use the advanced search with keywords of your choice.

Other Periodical Databases

Google Scholar
Indexes scholarly literature. Strong in the areas of medicine, engineering, the sciences, and business. Provides relevancy rankings based on the citation patterns of the articles. Sources are linked to UMD Library electronic holdings via "Find It." Results can be limited by date range.

This is a Key Source, and first best place to search.

EBSCO MegaFile
EBSCO MegaFILE's subject strength is its wide coverage, providing indexing and fulltext for scholarly journal articles on every topic, in addition to general and popular magazines and business-related periodicals.

Academic Search Premier (scholarly journals)
MasterFILE Premier (general, popular, news and editorial magazines)
Business Source Premier (business and trade scholarly journals, magazines, and newsletters)

Search Engines

FEDSTATS -- official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government. Use it to track economic and population trends, education, health care costs, aviation safety, foreign trade, energy use, farm production, and more. Access official statistics collected and published by more than 100 Federal agencies without having to know in advance which agency produces them.