Business Information Resources
for Healthcare Managers

Biomedical Libraries: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/
Click on "Resources"

Feldberg Library Business Info: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~feldberg/business/index.php

Health Care Administration- A Research Guide: http://library.dartmouth.edu/guides/main.php?subject_id=1522

ABI/Inform
Access: "Launch a Database" from Feldberg Library Business Information Webpage ABI/INFORM Global includes articles from over 2,770 business and management publications, with many in full text. Publications include academic/scholarly, trade and some newspapers. Search for articles on companies, industries, and business topics, e.g. business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and tactics, and competitive landscape, marketing, product development, and industry conditions worldwide.

Business Source Complete
Access: "Launch a Database" from Feldberg Library Business Information Webpage Business Source Complete provides access to complete articles for 8,800+ scholarly, business, and trade publications in nearly every area of business including management, marketing, MIS, POM, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more. In addition to articles you will also find: case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.

Dartmouth Library Catalog
Access: From the Biomedical Libraries homepage under "Resources."
A complete database of all of the holdings in the Dartmouth Library system. Example subject headings:

medical centers - planning
leadership - case studies
health services administration

LexisNexis
Access: From the Biomedical Libraries homepage under "Resources."
Large database with full text access to more than 6,000 newspapers, magazines, and trade publications in general news, business, law, and medicine.

LexisNexis - Statistical
Access: Go to the Lexis-Nexis link from the Biomedical Libraries homepage. Next, choose statistical "Statistical" link at the bottom left of the Lexis-Nexis page.
Database providing access to statistics of all types. Especially good for U.S. statistics though it does have some international statistics as well. Some of the information refers you to another source where you need to get the actual tables, but often the tables are in the database in full.

Medical and Healthcare Marketplace Guide
Access: http://www.mhmgonline.com/
    Username: dartedu
    Password: dartedu
Provides information on what the current markets are and forecasts future markets in the healthcare field. Also provides an in-depth look at company information.

Medline/PubMed
Access: PubMed via the Biomedical Libraries homepage under "Resources."
Medline is the NLM's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Medline contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,000 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries as well as links to a large percentage of full-text articles. The database contains over 15 million citations dating back to the mid-1950's. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts.

National Center for Health Statistics
Access: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
Clearinghouse of information from US government on health statistics. Sponsored by the CDC.

TableBase
Access: "Launch a Database" from the Feldberg Library Business Information Webpage.
TableBase specializes exclusively in tabular data dealing with companies, industries, products and demographics. Tables cover market share, rankings, forecasts, shipments, output, consumption, users, exports, imports, capacity and more. It contains a range of sources including trade and business publications, investment research, trade associations, statistical annuals, primary research, international organizations and government. For tables from the trade and business press and reports, full text is available along with tables, in most cases.

United States Census Bureau
Access: http://www.census.gov/
Business and population statistics with historical, current, and projected information provided for the U.S.

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