Health Services Toolkit
Databases
PubMed searches on healthcare quality and costs.
Guide to databases available at UW (Foster Business Library).
Databases and indexes for legal research (Gallagher Law Library).
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.
Information about ongoing health services research and public health projects, from National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR)
Database of information about datasets and instruments/indices useful in health services, behavioral and social sciences, and public health systems research.
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.
Evidence & Guidelines
Clinical, health care services, and methodology reports from Evidence-based Practice Centers.
Evidence-based quality measures and measure sets.
Includes evidence-based reviews from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
(Wiley) Systematic reviews (CDSR), DARE, controlled trials register, technology assessments, economic evaluations.
Tutorials & Knowledge Paths
UW HSL guide to sources for local, state, national and international statistics and data in the field of health sciences.
Foster Business Library research guides
Provides access to publications and data produced by governmental and inter-governmental agencies at the international, national, state and local levels.
Databases, ejournals & ebooks, analysis tools, and key organization & association websites for nutritional sciences and nutrition policy research.
Nonpartisan policy research organization which conducts studies of U.S. health care system.
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.
Research portal of health services research resources providing links to data, funding announcements, reports, podcasts, discussion groups, and more.
Literature, news and tutorials regarding health policy issues, research methodology and government.
Resources for selected MCH topics, compiled at the MCH Library at Georgetown U.
UW center focused on improving quality of health policy analysis and decision-making at the national, regional and state levels.
Health Data Codes
(STAT!Ref)
Textbooks, Reports
New York Academy of Medicine Library report of new publications in health services and selected public health topics. Searchable catalog.
Monthly selection of reports, conference proceedings, etc., produced by organizations and agencies conducting health policy analysis and research.
A comprehensive index to dissertations from all fields of study, 1861-present. Fulltext available 1997 forward.
Journals & News
Monthly health care industry trade journal targeted to leadership of northwest hospitals, medical clinics, insurance companies, and government agencies. Register for free e-mail delivery.
1981-
- Includes Health Affairs Blog.
Provides key health policy developments on Capitol Hill, and in agencies including CMS, NIH, CDC and AHRQ. Includes "Afternoon briefing email" and "Morning update email".
Full text of legislation from the 101st Congress (1989) to date, and bill summaries from the 93rd Congress (1973 - 1974) to date.
Roundup of studies and developments related to health reform.
1922-
1997-
1996-
Additional Library Resources
HSL Librarians: Sarah Safranek and Lisa Oberg
