Global Healthcare Management: Subject databases
Useful Resources
EBSCO databases
Databases on the EBSCO platform can be searched simultaneously, helping you to save time with your research. Choose any of the following links to access the EBSCO platform and above the keyword search boxes select 'Choose databases' and select the databases you would like to search.
- CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new window Gain access to informative health literature with CINAHL, the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, this database covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines, and contains: Indexing for over 1,200 nursing journals and publications dating back to 1982. Over 250,000 records. Abstracts for over 250 journals, including over 450 author-supplied abstracts. ##Indexing for journals, books and book chapters, dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, pamphlets, educational software packages and audiovisual material. Internal subject thesaurus with over 7,000 terms—2,000 unique to CINAHL.
- Medline This link opens in a new window Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, PubMed is a freely available version of MEDLINE which includes additional life sciences journals. It also provides integrated molecular biology databases. PubMed contains over 14 million references and includes some links to full-text articles.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new window PsycINFO database, with over 1.7 million records, is the comprehensive international database of psychology. It covers the academic, research and practice literature in psychology from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. PsycINFO includes relevant materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social science, and organizational behavior.
- AMED Allied and complementary medicine databases This link opens in a new window Provides an alternative medicine database for physicians, therapists, medical researchers and clinicians looking to learn more about alternative treatments - including complementary medicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation, podiatry, palliative care, and more. AMED contains basic bibliographic records (abstracts are also included for many records dated 1995 onward) for relevant articles from over 500 journals, with the scope of coverage being mainly European. Many of the journals included in AMED are not indexed by other biomedical sources. AMED is produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library.
ProQuest Databases
The following databases can also be searched together, choose any of the following links and above the search bar select 'Change Databases' and select the ones you would like to search. The databases highlighted below may prove particularly useful.
- Health & Medical Collection This link opens in a new window Clinical and biomedical, consumer health, health administration, etc. - journal articles.
- Healthcare Administration Database This link opens in a new window Health administration - journal articles, dissertations.
- Consumer Health Database This link opens in a new window Consumer health - journal articles and magazines.
- Nursing & Allied Health Database This link opens in a new window Offering complete information from leading nursing and health related publications, this database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at health-care facilities as well as health related students enrolled in nursing programs at academic institutions.
- Psychology Database This link opens in a new window Psychology theory and practice - journal articles.
- Public Health Database This link opens in a new window This database allows you to search the core literature in the field of public health.
PubMed
PubMed has some duplicate open access content from Medline, however it also has access to some content not available in Medline so is worth searching as well. Unlike Medline, PubMed is freely accessible to anybody and you do not need to use your Coventry ID to login to use this database.
- Pubmed This link opens in a new window PubMed comprises more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
- ASSIA Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts This link opens in a new window
- Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
- Sage Premier This link opens in a new window
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
- SCOPUS This link opens in a new window
- ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new window The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window Business Source Complete (BSC) is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. This in addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.
- FAME (Financial Analysis Made Easy) This link opens in a new window
- Lexis+ This link opens in a new window Lexis+ is a newspaper and legal database. British national and many local daily & Sunday newspapers are in full text. Access to full text legal information is also included: UK and international cases and legislation with links to full-text journal articles, where the law journal is included in the Lexis+ database. It is an excellent resource for locating full-text United States cases and legislation and numerous full-text US legal journals. Full text EU law is also available.
- Statista This link opens in a new window Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22500 sources on over 60000 topics worldwide
- Westlaw This link opens in a new window Westlaw provides access to full text UK and international cases and legislation. It also incorporates the Legal Journals Index, with links to full-text journal articles, where the journal is included in the Westlaw database. It is an excellent resource for locating full-text United States cases and legislation and numerous full-text US legal journals. Full text EU law is also available.
Some useful resources for systematic reviews are given below. More information and resources can be found on our Systematic Review LibGuide
- Cochrane Handbook The Cochrane handbook provides extensive information and guidance on conducting systematic reviews.
- Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) PRISMA is an evidence-based minimum set of items for reporting in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Useful tools provided by PRISMA include the PRISMA flow diagram which can help guide the process of screening research for a systematic review.
- Meta analysis Resources from Sigma Sigma have provided an introductory workshop and accompanying exercises on conducting a meta analysis.
- CASP (Critical Appraisal Skills Program) This set of eight critical appraisal tools are designed to be used when reading research. CASP has appraisal checklists designed for use with Systematic Reviews, Randomised Controlled Trials, Cohort Studies, Case Control Studies, Economic Evaluations, Diagnostic Studies, Qualitative studies and Clinical Prediction Rule.
- Age UKAge UK is a leading charity for older people.
- Care Quality CommissionThe UK independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. Tasked with ensuring health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care.
- Department of Health and Social CareUK government body advising on health and social care policy.
- Gov,UK Public Health Policy AreaUK government information on public health policy.
- Gov.UK Social Care Policy AreaUK government information on social care policy.
- The King's FundAn independent charity working to improve health and care in England
- NHS DigitalFormerly the Health and Social Care Information Centre. Information about the use of NHS digital services and data.
- NICE - National Institute for Health and Care ExcellenceProvides national guidance and advice to improve health and social care.
- Parliamentary and Health Service OmbudsmanRegulatory authority making final decisions on complaints that have not been resolved by the NHS in England and UK government departments and other public organisations.
- Public Health EnglandUK government website for public health information.
- Skills for CareSkills for Care provides practical tools and support to help adult social care organisations in England recruit, develop and lead their workforce.
- Social Care Institute for Excellence - SCIESCIE improves the lives of people of all ages by co-producing, sharing, and supporting the use of the best available knowledge and evidence about what works in practice.
- The UK's Faculty of Public HealthThe Faculty of Public Health (FPH) is a membership organisation for nearly 4,000 public health professionals across the UK and around the world.
Lanchester Library
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Coventry University
Frederick Lanchester Building
Gosford Street
Coventry, United Kingdom
CV1 5DD
Telephone:+44 (0) 24 7765 7575
Email: ask-a-librarian.lib@coventry.ac.uk
