LibGuides: Coventry University London: Healthcare Management

Welcome to the Healthcare Management subject guide

This is your subject guide, where you can find resources about your course such as:

Academic databases with content relevant to health and management/business/finance.
Instructions and guides on how to create your systematic reviews
Guidance on how to submit your thesis.

Database Searching Tips

Subject Resources

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.
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
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.

The King's Fund The King's Fund is an independent charitable organisation working to improve health and care in England. Our vision is that the best possible health and care is available to all.
The King's Fund Digital Archive This website allows you to search the full text of a huge range of The King's Fund publications and documents from 1898 onwards.
The King's Fund Reading Lists View selected references on a wide range of health and care subjects.
AMED
CINAHL

ABI/INFORM Complete [ProQuest] It features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a broad picture of companies and business trends around the world.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database. It offers 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference procedings, 5,300 periodicals and 4,400 journals.
Emerald Management Journals Emerald is a publisher specialising in academic journals in the areas of Business, Management and Engineering. Search and access the full text online.
ProQuest Central ProQuest Central combines all of ProQuest’s main business, marketing, finance and humanities databases, allowing you to search over 24,000 academic publications at once. The collection includes academic and trade journals, magazines, reports and newspapers. ACCESS: Instead of using your username and password, click on "Open Athens" from the right side of the screen.
SAGE Journals SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE journals span a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, science, and technology.
Science Direct ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
SCOPUS (Elsevier) Scopus is a comprehensive scientific, medical, technical and social science database containing all relevant literature from Reed Elsevier. It contains many publications that relate to the fields of Business, Management and Accounting.
Business Source Complete (EBSCO) It is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. Indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included.
Lexis Library Lexis Library 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.
Westlaw Westlaw is an online legal research service for lawyers and legal professionals in the United States and the United Kingdom and is a product of Thomson Reuters. In addition, it provides proprietary database services ACCESS: If logging in for the first time, please select 'Create Account', use your student email and you will receive an email with your password in a couple of hours. You can then log in using that password.

ProQuest dissertations & theses: UK and Ireland This link opens in a new window
EThOS (British Library Theses) This link opens in a new window Based at the British Library, EThOS allows you to view records for all theses (PhD & Masters level) produced at UK HE institutions and many of these are now available to download online. You need to register first to do this and it is free of charge.

Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. Search hints: For off-campus access to this resource click on ‘Log in through your library or institution’; select ‘United Kingdom (UK Federation)’; select Coventry University & enter your Coventry University username & password. At the top menu select the databases ‘ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland‎’ to search the dissertation and theses collection.
EThOS (British Library Theses) Based at the British Library, EThOS allows you to view records for all theses (PhD level) produced at UK HE institutions and many of these are now available to download online. You need to register first to do this and it is free of charge.

Cohrane 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.
Critical Appraisal Skills Program (CASP)
The CASP checklists provide you with a tool for the critical appraisal of several types of clinical and epidemiological study designs.
Meta analysis Resources from Sigma
Sigma has provided an introductory workshop and accompanying exercises on conducting a meta-analysis.

Postgraduate Research Thesis Guidance