Health Care Administration

Selected resources for undergraduate students of health care administration.

Journals & Journal Articles

CINAHL (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Index to over 1,700 journals (including links to full text articles) from the fields of nursing and allied health, dating back to 1982. (Title List)
Health Source Nursing/Academic & Consumer Edition (Ebsco) (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Full text articles from nursing journals and consumer health journals. (Title List)
Business Source Complete (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Full text coverage of 3,300 business journals as far back as 1922. (Title List)
Journals in Health Facilities & Administration: CU's Online Collection ()
CU's online collection of journals covering health facilities and administration.
Ovid Online (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Journals@Ovid links to the Table of Contents, Bibliographic citations, Abstracts, and references for all the titles in Ovid Online. YourJournals@Ovid links to the full text nursing journals to which Concordia University subscribes.
PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?holding=orcullib)
Search more than 16 million citations from life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. Includes links to full text articles and related research. From the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
SocIndex with Full Text ()
Comprehensive coverage of sociological subjects, including social psychology, family, racial & gender studies, and social development.

Geriatric Care

Administration on Aging: Elders & Families (http://www.aoa.gov/AoARoot/Elders_Families/index.aspx)
Use this government site to find organizations that serve older adults and their caregivers, check for benefits, read health fact sheets, and more.
Agingcare.com: The Community for Caregivers (http://www.agingcare.com/)
Provides information for caregivers about how to best care for their aging loved one. Information includes topics about health, but also covers financial and legal matters.
Books on End-of-Life Care in the CU collections ()
A list of books in the catalog on the topic of end of life care. See also: Books on Terminal Care in CUs collection
Books on Health Care for the Elderly in the CU Collections ()
A list of books in the catalog with the keywords “health care” and “aged, aging or geriatrics”.
Books on Terminal Care in the CU Collections ()
A list of books in the catalog on care of terminally ill patients. See also: Books on End-of-Life in CUs collection
Elder Care Online (http://www.ec-online.net//)
Resources, an online discussion forum and informational articles for caregivers of the elderly, especially those with Alzheimer’s.
Family Caregiver Alliance: National Center on Caregiving (http://www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=368)
This site provides fact sheets about health conditions, legal issues, and advocacy for caregivers. it also provides fact sheets in other languages such as Spanish and Chinese.

Health Care Ethics and Law

Books on Health Care Ethics in the CU Collections ()
A list of books in the catalog about topics such as managed health care, assisted suicide, abortion, the intersections of science and religion, aging, and the cultural dimensions of ethics in health and medicine.
Books on Medical Ethics in CU's collection ()
Includes Congresses, case studies, ethics in developing countries, bioethics with links to similar subjects.
Health Law: An Overview (http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/health)
Background information and resources for health law in the United States. Maintained by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University.
Healthcare Ethics Resources on the Web (http://www.ascensionhealth.org/ethics/public/web_resources/all.asp)
Links to information on aging & dying with dignity, bioethics, hospice, Medicaid, natural family planning, palliative care.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics: Biotechnology and Health Care Ethics (http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/medical/)
Discussions and resources on topics such as end-of-life ethics and ethics and research.
Related Subject Guide: Law (http://www.cu-portland.edu/library/subject_guides/topic_guide.cfm?TopicID=32)

Health Care Finance

Books on Health Care Finance in the CU Collections ()
A list of books in the library catalog with the keywords “health care” and “finance”.
Journals in Health Facilities & Administration: CU's Online Collection (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
CU's online collection of journals covering health facilities and administration.
Healthcare Financial Management Association: Knowledge Center (http://www.hfma.org/Templates/KnowledgeCenter.aspx)
Articles and reports on finance predictions, revenue cycles, document management, ICD-10s and other healthcare finance topics.
Related Subject Guide: Business (http://www.cu-portland.edu/library/subject_guides/topic_guide.cfm?TopicID=7)

Managed Care Systems

Books on Managed Care in the CU Collections ()
A list of books in the library catalog on the topic of “managed care”.
Managed Care Research Findings (http://www.ahrq.gov/research/)
Links to information about research findings, conferences and meetings and workshop summaries on managed care. Maintained by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Management and Planning

Books on Strategic Planning for Health Care in the CU Collections ()
A list of books in thelibrary catalog on the topic of “strategic planning” and “health care”.
Related Subject Guide: Business (http://www.cu-portland.edu/library/subject_guides/topic_guide.cfm?TopicID=7)

Quality Assessment of Health Care

Books on Quality of Health Care in the CU Collections ()
A list of books in the library catalog on the topics of ”health care” and “quality”.
AHRQ Quality and Patient Safety (http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/)
Resources from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality on quality measures and assessment of health care.

Statistical Data

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (http://www.ahrq.gov/)
Government website provides links to statistical data in its Data & Surveys section. Generate reports on medical expenditures, HIV/AIDS, and hospital stays.
CDC Wonder (http://wonder.cdc.gov/)
Reliable source for detailed public health data reports. Organized by topic, or by alphabetical list. Sponsored by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
National Center for Health Statistics (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/)
Clearinghouse for statistical data on health care in the United States. Includes FASTSTATS and results of national surveys.
Oregon Center for Health Statistics (http://www.dhs.state.or.us/dhs/ph/chs/data/index.shtml)
Access to Oregon Vital Statistics Annual Reports and statistics on births, deaths, marriages, divorces, teen pregnancy, etc. in Oregon.