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HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION RESOURCES IN LAC ONLINE LIBRARY

ProQuest    Ebrary    Lirn    Web site resource list

I.  PROQUEST HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION PERIODICALS

ProQuest Health Care Management has excellent and complete full-text periodicals and journals in your field.

For best results, to find articles, place a checkmark in the small box for "Full text documents only" when searchng, as shown below.


If you need to browse an electronic periodical and read it through, press the "Publications" tab first.  Then proceed to choose title of periodical and date of periodical you would like to read.
 

For more information and examples on PROQUEST databases, click here.

II.  EBRARY ACADEMIC COMPLETE - E-BOOKS

In Ebrary, you can find several hundred e-books in health care management topics.
Ebrary has virtually no e-books on billling and coding.

To search for e-books in Ebrary, be in the "Search" tab.

To get a head start in Ebrary to find health care administration e-books, you can search with the following subjects below.
 
 Allied health  Medical care -- United States
 Confidential communications -- Physicians  Medical economics
 Health care education  Medical errors
 Health care finance  Medical finance
 Health care reform  Medical informatics
 Health facilities  Medical personnel
 Health in mass media  Medical personnel and patient
 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996  Medical policy -- United States -- History
 Health planning  Medical records
 Health resources  Medically uninsured persons
 Health services administration  Medicare
 Hospitals  Medicine -- Computer networks
 Information storage and retrieval systems -- Medical care  Patients
 Insurance, heatlh  Public health -- United States
 Managed care  Transcultural medical care
 Medicaid  World health
 Medical care, Cost  (your own names and topics)

If a search with the subjects below does not give a satisfactory result, put phrases that have two or more words in "quotes".

You can save e-books you find into your personal e-bookshelf, by pressing buttons at e-book page views which indicate you can add books to your bookshelf.  Then, press "Bookshelf" tab to return to saved e-book.  

For more information regarding how to use Ebrary, click here.


III.  LIRN PERIODICALS AND ARTICLE DATABASES

LIRN has several databases with a broad coverage of articles in health topics related to health care administration or allied health.

After logging in to LIRN, view the main LIRN menu, and press either grey button,
"Connect to Gale InfoTrac" or "Connect to ProQuest."

InfoTrac in LIRN
    (Press "Connect to InfoTrac" in the LIRN Menu.)

      Health Reference Center Academic

      Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module

ProQuest in LIRN
    (Press "Connect to ProQuest" in the LIRN Menu.)


      ProQuest Health and Medical Complete
      Nearly 1200 full-text titles in consumer and health administration journals; includes charts, diagrams,
    graphs, tables, and some photos


      Nursing & Allied Health Source
      Search full-text journals and best practice information sheets from Joanna Briggs Institute.

      ProQuest Research Library -Health and Medicine
      "The latest medical information for researchers of all levels"

New ProQuest search platform in LIRN:


For more information regarding how to search LIRN resources in general, click here.

 

IV.  WEB SITE RESOURCES IN THE PROFESSION

Click here for some leading web sites, for billing and coding and health care administration.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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