Guide to Research for Health
Information Management Courses
This guide leads to information sources
available online or in the Mundt Library that are edited or
refereed in order to assure quality. Your local library may have
the same or similar resources. Currently enrolled Dakota State University
students and faculty and staff are encouraged to ask a
librarian for help in searching for
and finding information and to ask the Mundt Library to get
material for them that is not available online by requesting an Interlibrary Loan.
Access
to some resources, when off-campus, requires login using
your Mundt Library ID number. If you are a DSU student and do not
know your library ID number, please request it from the library by emailing your
request to ask a
librarian.
Evaluate information
carefully. Do be careful to use high quality, reliable medical
information.
To learn about finding reliable health information, see
Evaluating Health Information, provided by the National Library of Medicine
and the National Institutes of Health. Additional
sources of help include: JAMA
Patient Page: Health Information on the Internet (American Medical
Association, May, 2001) and the
Health
on the Net Foundation honor code principles.
E-handouts for specific HIM courses
may be available. See:
HIM 150 [Word document] and
Database Search Techniques [Word document].
HIM 170
Legal
Resources and
How Laws Are Related.
HIM 260
Disease Research Guide
To
begin, choose one of these two research paths or
continue below to see both:
-
Research
on Health Information Management and Administration
includes how to find: books & videos | articles
| laws & regulations | definitions
& facts & statistics | additional
material
-
Research
on Health and Medicine
includes how to find: books & videos |
articles | statistics
| dictionaries, encyclopedias, drug
reference | additional material
1. Find in-depth information in
monographs (books) and find non-print material
such as videos, audios, software, and multimedia. Search
for books and non-print material using the following databases:
|
Database |
Database description |
Where to access the database |
| Library
Catalog |
provides
descriptions and locations of material in DSU's Mundt
Library and in other libraries in South Dakota |
Library
Catalog
|
| Worldcat |
provides
descriptions of items owned by thousands of libraries
around the world, including Dakota State University's
Mundt Library |
Worldcat
|
2. Find current information
in magazine and journal articles and reports. Search for
articles & reports using the following databases or websites:
|
Database or web site |
Description |
Where to access the database or web site |
| Academic Search Premier |
database
provides descriptions and often the full text of articles
on a wide variety of issues including health and medical topics in major
medical journals. |
EBSCOhost
[click on EBSCOhost Web link and then on "Academic
Search Premier" link] |
| Medline |
Premier database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine,
the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
It covers health services research including clinical (emphasizing the evaluation of patient outcomes and the
effectiveness of procedures, programs, products, services, and processes) and non-clinical (emphasizing
health care administration, economics, planning, and policy) aspects of health care delivery.
Many articles report very specialized research by experts
and may be difficult for non-experts to understand.
"PubMed Central" contains only the subset of Medline articles
for which full-text is available for free. |
PubMed Central (free access to full-text articles; searches only full-text articles, not entire medline database)
PubMed (free access
to database of article citations and abstracts)
or
Medscape
Medline (free but must register)For Pubmed help, see:
PubMed Help Manual
|
| AHIMA
Publications Online |
web site
provides access to articles and reports in "Journal
of AHIMA" (including practice briefs, coding notes,
plugged in, etc.), "IN Confidence," &
"AHIMA Advantage"
NOTE: Use "BODY of KNOWLEDGE" link in upper right
corner to get to search screen for AHIMA publications |
AHIMA (American Health Information & Management
Association) |
|
Highwire:Library of the Sciences & Medicine |
Provides full-text of many journals in medicine and
science. HighWire Press, a division of Stanford University
Libraries, partners with scholarly societies, university presses and
publishers to host the largest repository of
free full-text life science articles in the world.
Includes a combined Highwire & Medline search option. |
Highwire |
NIH Health Information
(U.S. National
Institutes of Health ) |
web site
provides reliable health information to the public and to
health professionals |
NIH
Health Information
[for information about NIH, see NIH
home page]
|
CMS (Centers for Medicare
& Medicaid Services)
FORMERLY KNOWN AS
HCFA
(U.S.
Health Care Financing Administration)
|
web site
provides statistics, reports and regulatory news
(including links to rules & proposed rules in Federal
Register) on Medicare, Medicaid & Child Health
Insurance Programs. CMS is the federal agency that
administers the Medicare, Medicaid and Child Health
Insurance Programs.
Click on the "Professionals" tab to get
links for different types of facilities such as Ambulatory Surgical,
Home Health Agencies, etc.
|
CMS
(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; formerly known as HCFA)
|
| Joint
Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations |
The Joint
Commission evaluates and accredits more than 18,000
health care organizations in the United States, including
hospitals, health care networks, managed care
organizations, and health care organizations that provide
home care, long term care, behavioral health care,
laboratory, and ambulatory care services. It publishes
standards, etc. |
web site: Joint
Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
|
3. Find federal
and state rules and
regulations, statutory law, and case law. Search
for legal information using the following web sites and
databases:
|
Database or web site |
Description |
Where to access the
database or web site |
|
Federal
Regulations: Code
of Federal Regulations (CFR) |
The CFR
codifies (arranges numerically) the detailed rules and
regulations used for carrying out the laws passed by the U. S. Congress. These regulations are devised by federal
departments and agencies. So, the CFR is a comprehensive collection of
all the rules and regulations in effect in the various agencies of the
U.S. Government.
Rules first appear in the daily publication called
the Federal Register. After being finalized, they are incorporated
into the CFR. Therefore, after searching the
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), search
the Federal Register for any new or changed federal rules
that have not yet been added to the CFR.
|
Lexis
Nexis Congressional
1. Click to choose Lexis-Nexis
Congressional
2. Select Regulations
3. Depending on what you need to do, choose to search
either the Code of Federal Regulations, OR Code of Federal
Regulations by citation , OR Code of Federal Regulations by
statutory authority
Alternate site for searching CFR:
Code of Federal Regulations via GPO Access
|
|
Federal
Regulations: Federal
Register |
Use the
Federal Register to find new federal regulations that have been
proposed or that have been published in final form in the Federal
Register but have not yet been added to the Code of Federal Regulations. FR provides the text of proposed, final,
interim, and temporary rules. The Federal Register is
published daily, Monday - Friday. |
Lexis
Nexis Congressional
1. Click to choose Lexis-Nexis
Congressional
2. Select Regulations
3. Depending on what you need to do, choose to search
either Federal Register, OR Federal Register by
citation, OR Federal Register by CFR citation
Alternate site for searching FR:
Federal Register Online via GPO Access
|
Federal
health regulations: CMS (Centers for Medicare
& Medicaid Services)
FORMERLY KNOWN AS
HCFA (U.S.
Health Care Financing Administration) |
Provides
links to health care regulatory information published in
the Federal Register, etc.
Choose from Programs on left border or
click on "Regulations" in Topics area of left border.
Or click on the
"Professionals" tab to get links for different types of
facilities such as Ambulatory Surgical, Home Health Agencies, etc. |
CMS
(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; formerly known as HCFA)
|
|
South
Dakota regulations: South Dakota
Administrative Rules |
Codifies South Dakota's
regulations. This is the State equivalent of the federal Code of
Federal Regulations |
Choose "Rules
Search" or "Rules List" in SD Legislative Research
Council Administrative
Rules |
|
South
Dakota regulations: South Dakota Register |
Announces new regulations in
South Dakota. This is the State equivalent of the Federal
Register. |
Choose "Register
Archive" in SD Legislative Research Council
Administrative
Rules |
|
Federal
Case Law |
Provides decisions
from all federal court levels about court cases. |
LEXIS-NEXIS Academic
1. Click to choose Lexis-Nexis Academic
2. Then click on Legal tab
3. Then click on Federal & State
Cases |
|
State Case
Law |
Provides State
high court & appellate decisions from all States of the U.S. |
LEXIS-NEXIS Academic
1. Click to choose Lexis-Nexis Academic
2. Then click on Legal tab
3. Then click on Federal &
State Case Law |
|
United States
Laws |
Provides the
laws passed by the Federal legislative branch. Search either Public
Laws or the U.S. Code service |
Lexis
Nexis Congressional
1. Click to choose Lexis-Nexis
Congressional
2. Select Laws
3. Depending on what you need, choose to search
either United States Code OR United States citation OR Public
Laws OR Public Laws by number. |
|
State Codes |
Statutory laws
(that is, laws passed by State legislatures). Also includes court
rules from all states & Attorneys General opinions from all states |
LEXIS-NEXIS Academic
1. Click to choose Lexis-Nexis Academic
2. Then click on Legal Research
3. Then click on State Codes |
| |
For additional legal resources,
see Guide
to Legal Resources in or Accessible from the Mundt Library |
|
4. Find definitions, facts, statistics
|
Source or web site |
Description |
Where to access the source or web site |
| AMA
Physician Select |
This
directory contains information on virtually every
licensed physician in the United States and its
possessions, including more than 650,000 doctors of
medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic
medicine (DO). All physician credential data have been
verified for accuracy and authenticated by accrediting
agencies, medical schools, residency training programs,
licensing and certifying boards, and other data sources. |
AMA
Physician Select |
| Board
Certification Verification |
This
directory may be used to verify the certification status
of any physician certified by one or more of the 24
member boards of the American Board of Medical
Specialties (ABMS) |
American
Board of Medical Specialties (Click on
"Who's Certified") |
| National
Center for Health Statistics |
NCHS is the
primary Federal organization responsible for the
collection, analyses, and dissemination of health
statistics. The intent of this site is to provide users
access to the health information that NCHS produces. |
National Center for Health Statistics |
| Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ), of the US Department of Health and
Human Services |
Has
a "Data and Surveys" section that includes MEPS ( Medical
Expenditure Panel Survey), HCUP (Healthcare Cost & Utilization
Project), HCUPnet ( Interactive Tool for Hospital Statistics), HIV
& AIDS Costs & Use, and Healthcare Informatics. HCUPnet
is a tool for identifying, tracking, analyzing, and comparing
statistics on hospitals at the national, regional, and State level. |
Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality
|
AHA (American
Hospital Association)
Guide to the health field |
Provides
statistics, addresses, licensure, and much more
information about hospitals in the U.S. |
in print in
Mundt library; call number:
REFERENCE RA977.A1 A46
or
The American
Hospital Association in cooperation with US News & World Report
provides some data online in Directory
of American Hospitals |
| Hospital
Statistics: The AHA Profile of United States Hospitals |
Data compiled
from AHA Annual Survey of Hospitals
[The American
Hospital Association sells this publication and does not provide
it free on its web site.] |
in print in
Mundt library; call number:
REFERENCE RA981.A2 A6234 |
| Medscape DrugInfo |
Search by drug name to find
information about it. |
Medscape
DrugInfo |
5. Find additional material on the
Internet through these medical subject directories leading to
accurate & reliable information:
|
Web site |
Description |
Where to access the web site |
| HealthWeb |
"HealthWeb
provides links to specific, evaluated information
resources on the World-Wide Web selected by librarians
and information professionals at leading academic medical
centers in the Midwest. Selection emphasizes quality
information aimed at assisting health care professionals
as well as consumers in meeting their health information
needs." |
HealthWeb |
1. Find in-depth information in
monographs (books) and find non-print material
such as videos, audios, software, and multimedia. Search
for books and non-print material using the following databases:
|
Database |
Database description |
Where to access the database |
| Library
Catalog |
provides
descriptions and locations of material in DSU's Mundt
Library and in other libraries in South Dakota |
Library
Catalog For help, read: Search Tips for SDLN
|
| Worldcat |
provides
descriptions of items owned by thousands of libraries
around the world, including Dakota State University's
Mundt Library |
Worldcat
|
2. Find current information
in magazine and journal articles and reports. Search for
articles & reports using the following databases or websites:
|
Database or web site |
Description |
Where to access the database or web site |
| Academic Search Premier |
database
provides descriptions and often the full text of articles
on a wide variety of issues including health and medical topics in major
medical journals. |
EBSCOhost
|
| Lexis Nexis Medical |
Provides full-text articles on diseases. |
Lexis
Nexis Academic
(Choose MEDICAL category; then choose MEDICAL AND
HEALTH JOURNALS or choose MEDICAL NEWS)
|
| Medline |
database
provides descriptions of articles in biomedical journals.
Many articles report very specialized research by experts
and may be difficult for non-experts to understand.
"PubMed Central" contains only the subset of Medline articles for which
full-text is available for free. |
PubMed Central (free access to full-text articles; searches only full-text articles, not entire medline database)
PubMed (free access)
or
Medscape
Medline (free but must register)
or
Lexis
Nexis Academic (Click to search Lexis Nexis; then choose MEDICAL
category; then choose MEDICAL ABSTRACTS)
For Pubmed help, see: Pubmed
Tutorial of University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries
|
|
Highwire:Library of the Sciences & Medicine |
Provides full-text of many journals in medicine and
science. HighWire Press, a division of Stanford University
Libraries, partners with scholarly societies, university presses and
publishers to host the largest repository of
free full-text life science articles in the world.
Includes a combined Highwire & Medline search option. |
Highwire |
| National
Institutes of Health |
web site
provides reliable health information to the public and to
health professionals |
National
Institutes of Health |
| Medem |
A cooperative project begun
with leadership from the American Medical Association and several
other key medical societies, it is a medical information service
designed
as a resource for consumers to obtain credible, high quality information regarding their health. |
Medem
|
| CDC
(Centers for Disease Control) |
Provides
data, statistics, and information on diseases and their
prevention, including disease information for people
traveling throughout the world. |
CDC (Centers
for Disease Control) |
3. Find facts
& statistics about health, diseases,
drug therapies, clinical trials, etc.
|
Source or web site |
Description |
Where to access the web site or source |
| National
Center for Health Statistics |
NCHS is the
primary Federal organization responsible for the
collection, analyses, and dissemination of health
statistics. The intent of this site is to provide users
access to the health information that NCHS produces. |
National Center for Health Statistics |
| CDC
(Centers for Disease Control) |
Provides
data, statistics, and information on diseases and their
prevention, including disease information for people
traveling throughout the world. |
CDC (Centers
for Disease Control) |
| Health, United States |
Annual report on the health
status of the United States, compiled by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). |
National Center for Health Statistics
and in print in the Mundt Library at call
number: REF RA 407.3 .U57a |
| Physicians Desk Reference
(PDR) |
The Physicians Desk
Reference provides information about drugs used in medical care.
Print edition is in Mundt Library is full physician's
version. The free online edition is designed for consumers. |
PDR
Drug Information
(consumer's version)
and in print in Mundt Library at call number: REF RS
75 .P5 (physician's version)
|
| Medlineplus
Drug Information |
is designed
to assist the public in locating "appropriate,
authoritative health information sources." |
Medlineplus Drug
Information
|
| ClinicalTrials.gov |
Search for clinical trials
in this database provided by the U.S. National Institutes of Health |
ClinicalTrials.gov
|
Need an
entertaining break? Visit a collection of medicine-related ads
published in newspapers and magazines between 1910 and 1960 at Medicine
& Madison Avenue
4. Find definitions and
overviews in medical dictionaries and encyclopedias about diseases
and other health topics
|
Source or web site |
Description |
Where to access the web site or source |
| Medlineplus |
is designed
to assist the public in locating "appropriate,
authoritative health information sources." The
emphasis is on information available from the National
Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of
Health (NIH). It includes links to searches of Medline
(the NLM database that indexes medical literature) and to
many full-text publications produced by the NIH
institutes. Also includes a medical dictionary, medical
encyclopedia, and drug information. |
Medlineplus
|
| Merck Manual Home Edition |
A "home" medical
encyclopedia that provides information about diseases (symptoms,
diagnosis, treatment) and drugs. |
Merck
|
|
Black's Medical Dictionary |
provides
brief definitions of medical terms |
in print
in Mundt Library; call number:
REFERENCE R121 .B598 2004b
|
| Health
and Illness: a Cross-cultural Encyclopedia |
by David
Levinson & Laura Gaccione, published by ABC-CLIO,
1997. |
in print in
Mundt Library; call number:
REFERENCE R733.L477 1997 |
5. Find additional material on the
Internet through these medical subject directories leading to
accurate & reliable information.
| Web Subject Directory |
Description |
Where to access the web site |
| CHID
Online: Combined Health Information Database |
CHID is a
database produced by health-related agencies of the
Federal Government. This database provides titles,
abstracts, and availability information for health
information and health education resources -- often for
material not indexed elsewhere |
CHID Online |
| Hardin
Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources |
a directory
of directories (sites that provide links to health
subjects). Includes links to sites with medical/disease pictures. |
Hardin Meta Directory
|
| Healthfinder |
web site
provides links to hundreds of federal government
publications about health topics and to consumer health
sites on the Web which have been evaluated for quality by
the US Department of Health & Human Services. |
Healthfinder |
| HealthWeb |
"HealthWeb
provides links to specific, evaluated information
resources on the World-Wide Web selected by librarians
and information professionals at leading academic medical
centers in the Midwest. Selection emphasizes quality
information aimed at assisting health care professionals
as well as consumers in meeting their health information
needs." |
HealthWeb |
| Mayo
Clinic |
Health information for
consumers. |
Mayo
Clinic |
| Medem |
A cooperative project begun
with leadership from the American Medical Association and several
other key medical societies, it is expected to be "a single "super site" for healthcare information as a resource for consumers to obtain credible, high quality information regarding their health and that of their families." |
Medem |
| Medical
Reference For Non-Medical Librarians |
An
annotated collection of links to Web sites for consumer health
information. In addition to diseases, drugs, and general guides,
topics include multilingual sites, information on evaluating online
health sites, and much more. From librarians at the Health Sciences
Library, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and University of
Colorado Health Sciences Center. |
Medical
Reference for Non-Medical Librarians |
| MedWeb (Emory
University) |
provides links to health and
medicine web sites. Search Medweb for your topic or select from
the subjects provided. |
MedWeb |
| WebMD |
Provides consumer health
information. Although this is a
for-profit site, its credibility is enhanced by coverage of quality information from reputable sources cited for each article. |
WebMD |
This document is authored by Risë L.
Smith, Public Services Librarian, Karl E. Mundt Library, Dakota
State University, Madison, SD 57042-1799.
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