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Selected Databases

The following databases all contain information about the business of healthcare and the healthcare industry.

Health Business FullText
Provides full text coverage for more than 130 well-known administrative journals. Critical for hospital administrators and managers, this database includes publications covering the business of health care administration.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Covers all areas of business with a large collection of scholarly business journals, industry magazines, industry & market reports, and other business information resources.
PubMed@MGH This link opens in a new window
Enhanced version of PubMed (officially replaced the legacy version as of 10/31/2020). Includes linking to both MGH and Harvard full text.
CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health. Comprehensive coverage of the nursing and allied health literature, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals.

Selected eJournals

Academy of Management Journal
Publishes peer-reviewed empirical research that "tests, extends, or builds management theory and contributes to management practice." Includes qualitative, quantitative, field, laboratory, meta-analytic, and mixed methods research.
Academy of Management Review
Quarterly peer-reviewed publication from Academy of Management (AOM). Covers theoretical insights advancing understanding of management and organizations. "Submissions to AMR must extend theory in ways that develop testable knowledge-based claims."
Frontiers of Health Services Management
Official publication of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). Presents in-depth case studies and commentaries with solutions to help leaders advance organizational performance and improve patient care. Themed, quarterly issues.
Health Affairs
The leading journal of health policy thought and research, exploring topics involving health care cost, quality, access, and equity.
Health Care Management Review
Presents research about management, leadership, and administration of health care systems, organizations, and agencies.
Health Care Risk Management
Provides guidance in improving documentation, upgrading quality assurance, reducing liability, curbing insurance premiums, streamlining claims management, protecting hospital assets, and slashing high-rising claims costs.
Health Services Research
Provides the latest research findings, methods, and concepts related to the financing, organization, delivery, evaluation, and outcomes of health services.
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
Open access journal dedicated to turning health care research into actionable outcomes.
Journal of Health Care Finance
Peer-reviewed journal for over 30 years. Covers academic and theoretical content, as well as "timely, real-world developments, innovations and challenges, both within the U.S. and internationally."
Journal of Healthcare Leadership
Focuses on topics in leadership for the health professions.
Journal of Healthcare Management
An official journal of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). Peer-reviewed publication providing healthcare leaders with trends and new research to manage complex healthcare issues and to make effective strategic decisions.
Journal of Health Economics
International in scope. Includes content on the production and supply of health services; demand and utilization of health services; financing of health services; determinants of health; economic consequences of ill-health, and more.
Milbank Quarterly
Articles of scholarly analysis of significant issues in health and health care policy. Original research, policy analysis and commentary from academicians, clinicians and policy makers in an in-depth, multidisciplinary approach.

Selected eBooks

Leadership & Management

The Well-Managed Healthcare Organization, 9th ed. by Kenneth R. White; John R. Griffith
ISBN: 9781640550582
Publication Date: 2019-03-01
This book allows unlimited simultaneous users.
Take Charge of Your Healthcare Management Career: 50 Lessons That Drive Success by Kenneth White
ISBN: 9781567936926
Publication Date: 2014
This book allows unlimited simultaneous users.
Leading Change, with a New Preface by the Author by John P. Kotter
ISBN: 9781422186435
Publication Date: 2012
Advanced Practice Nursing Leadership: a Global Perspective by Susan Hassmiller (Editor); Joyce Pulcini (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9783030205492
Publication Date: 2020-03-28
Specific emphasis on academic, clinical and policy leadership. A section on leadership development focuses on coaching and mentoring, business acumen, collaboration and patient advocacy. Authors are distinguished APN leaders from around the world along with junior authors who are emerging leaders being mentored by these leaders. This book will appeal to APN clinicians, students and emerging leaders who want to bring important global lessons to their work.
Human-Centered Leadership in Healthcare: Evolution of a Revolution by Kay Kennedy, Lucy LeClerc, Susan Campis
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781631955549
Publication Date: 2022
A healthcare leader's guide to changing culture by embracing this secret....it starts with the leader but it's not about them.

Analytics & Research

Handbook on Continuous Improvement Transformation by Aristide Van Aartsengel; Selahattin Kurtoglu
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9783642359002
Publication Date: 2013-04-24
Provides detailed framework for implementation of "Continuous Improvement" and Lean Six Sigma in a professional project management environment. Integrated approach, which can be used for both transactional and manufacturing businesses to better define ways to reduce costs, enhance processes ,and achieve faster implementation and new product or service development.
Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement by Trevor L. Strome
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781118519691
Publication Date: 2013-10-07
"Improve patient outcomes, lower costs, reduce fraud--all with healthcare analytics Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement walks your healthcare organization from relying on generic reports and dashboards to developing powerful analytic applications that drive effective decision-making throughout your organization."
Intervention Research and Evidence-Based Quality Improvement by Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk; Dianne Morrison-Beedy
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780826155535
Publication Date: 2018-07-01
Written for researchers, clinicians and doctoral students, this comprehensive reference delivers the essentials of intervention research with added content on evidence-based quality improvement. Although typically it takes years for research-based interventions to make their way to real world clinical settings, this "prolonged time for translation" frustrates researchers and their interprofessional teams. Includes key strategies for rapidly moving research-based interventions into real world settings in the form of evidence-based quality improvement...
Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement, 3rd ed. by Thomas P. Ryan
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780470590744
Publication Date: 2011-08-02
Current, proven statistical methods for quality control and quality improvement Covers broad range of tools and techniques that make it possible to quickly identify and resolve both current and potential trouble spots within almost any manufacturing or nonmanufacturing process.