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Advanced Health Law Seminar Research Guide Spring 2006

INTRODUCTION

Researching a seminar paper can be a very different process than researching a paper for a first year class. The "Research Strategies for Seminar Papers" research guide [http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/guides/seminar_papers.cfm] will walk you through the different steps of research from choosing a topic to preemption check to focusing your research.

Students are welcome to request research help from a reference librarian over the phone 202-662-9140, by email (libref@law.georgetown.edu), by Live Help, or by appointment.

SELECTING A TOPIC

Key Sources

  • BNA Publications (Georgetown Law Only)
    They provide high quality updates (some daily, some weekly) of legal and regulatory developments in different areas of law. BNA newsletters relating to health law, with an emphasis on health care policy and financing are:
    • Health Law & Business Library (on campus only)
      Consisted of portfolios grouped by subject area, the "Health Law & Business Library" "examines the business implications of legal issues and the legal considerations inherent in business decisions." Seven subject areas are covered: antitrust, contracting issues, fraud & abuse, operational issues, structural & legal issues, tax-exempt health care entities, and transactional issues. Also available on Westlaw (BNAHLB).

    • Health Care Fraud Report
      Published biweekly, the publication reports on the latest health care fraud and abuse issues. Also available on Westlaw (BNA-HCFR).

    • Health Care Policy Report
      Published weekly, the publication reports on health care policy, covering federal, state, and private-sector developments. Also available on Westlaw (BNA-HCP).

    • Health Care Daily Report
      Published daily, it provides timely reporting of health care policy and law, including focused coverage of Medicare, Medicaid, and managed care. Also available on Westlaw (BNA-HCD).

    • Health Law Reporter
      Published weekly, it covers the entire spectrum of health law, including bioethics, public health and rights, health care policy & financing. Also available on Westlaw (BNA-HLR).

    • Health Plan & Provider Report
      Published weekly, it covers state and federal laws and policies affecting health plans and providers. Also available on Westlaw (BNA-HPPR).

    • Medical Research Law & Policy Report
      Published twice-monthly, it tracks the most significant regulatory and legal developments in medical research, covering bioethics issues, intellectual property rights, and bioterrorism.

    • Medicare Report
      Published weekly, it covers legislative, regulatory, and legal developments affecting the Medicare program. Also available on Westlaw (BNA-MED).

    • Pharmaceutical Law & Industry Report
      Published weekly, it covers regulatory and litigation developments affecting the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

    • State Health Care Regulatory Developments
      Published daily, it reports on health care regulatory developments in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Also available on Westlaw (BNA-SHCRDEV).
  • The Health Lawyer (American Bar Association) [3rd Floor, K8 .E9] (1982-present)
    A bi-monthly publication, also available on Westlaw (HTHLAW) (1990-present).

  • State Health Notes (National Conference of State Legislatures) [5th Floor, RA395 .A3 S7] [http://www.statehealthnotes.org/] (December 2003- ) is an eight-page biweekly publication designed to deliver health information to state legislators and legislative staff. It offers a national perspective on health care issues as well as a network of established key policy contacts in all 50 states. It also offers timely news concerning new bills, laws, proposals and programs. (Georgetown Law only)

  • Health Law Perspectives (Health Law & Policy Institute, University of Houston Law Center) (1998- ) provides short legal analyses of health law issues. Archives can be searched or browsed by topic.

  • American Health Line: A Daily Briefing on Health Care Politics and Policy (part of nationaljournal.com) (Georgetown Law only)
    Users can also set up e-mail alert.

  • Newspapers and transcripts of news programs available on:
    • Lexis's News & Business tab and Westlaw's Business & News folder include many different databases with different coverage.
    • ProQuest (Georgetown Law only) provides access to full-text or abstracts of newspaper or magazine articles.
    • Lexis: News & Business > Combined Sources > Transcripts provides access to full-text transcripts of TV programs such as the Charlie Rose Show, and TV/radio programs from ABC, Al-Jazeera, CBS News, CNBC, CNN, Fox News Network, MSNBC, National Public Radio, etc .

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Pending Legislation

Federal
  • Thomas [http://thomas.loc.gov] (for the full text and status of pending and recently enacted health legislation, try a word search in the current Congress)

  • LexisNexis Congressional [http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/] Select "Legislative Histories, Bills & Laws," select "Bill Tracking" or "Bills (Full Text), and then type in keywords."

  • Lexis
    • Legal > Legislation & Politics - U.S. & U.K. > U.S. Congress > Congressional bills and Bill Tracking - Current Congress (or Bill Tracking Historical)
    • Legal > Federal Legal - U.S. > Legislative Histories and Materials > U.S. - CIS Legislative Histories

  • Westlaw
    • KeyCiting an U.S.C. section will give pending legislation as well as legislative history
    • All Databases > U.S. Federal Materials > Bill Tracking
    • All Databases > U.S. Federal Materials > Congressional Information
States
  • BNA publications (see above "Key Sources") are good sources of state legislative materials, especially new legislative developments.

  • BNA Health Law and Business Library has a "State Legislation Summaries" section that summarizes state legislation enacted since 2004 and organizes them by topic.

  • National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) [http://www.ncsl.org] is a bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states, its commonwealths and territories. The NCSL Web site provides research results on various public policy issues. Sometimes, NCSL provides 50-state analysis.

  • State Health Notes (National Conference of State Legislatures) [5th Floor, RA395 .A3 S7] [http://www.statehealthnotes.org/] (December 2003- ) is a biweekly publication designed to deliver health information to state legislators and legislative staff. It offers a national perspective on health care issues as well as a network of established key policy contacts in all 50 states. It also offers timely news concerning new bills, laws, proposals and programs. (Georgetown Law only)

  • Subject Compilations of State Laws (1981-) [REF, KF1 .F67] is an annotated bibliography listing journal articles or other publications that survey state laws on various topics.

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Recent Cases

  • Westlaw's Topic and Key Number
  • Lexis's Key Concept

Other Sources

General
  • Duke Health Policy Gateway (Center for Health Policy, Law and Management, Duke University) [http://www.hpolicy.duke.edu/cyberexchange/] provides access to authoritative Web sites related to health law and policy.

  • Health Law Links (Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University School of Law) [http://law.slu.edu/healthlaw/research/links/index.html] lists sites by topic such as antitrust; bioethics; elder law and long-term care; food, drugs, and medical devices; health care financing; mental health; pain; patient & government; patient & provider, provider liability; public health law; and telemedicine. It also links to journals and publications, agencies and institutions, etc.

  • HealthPathfinder (University of Houston Law Center) [http://www.law.uh.edu/healthlaw/pathfinder/homepage.html]
    It contains hundreds of annotated links to informative Web sites pertaining to health law, health policy, and general health.

  • RAND Health [http://www.rand.org/health/]
    Not all RAND Health publications are available full-text on the web site, but abstracts of RAND Health publications since 1970 can be searched http://www.rand.org/health/search.html. Publications since 1990 can also be searched on PolicyFile. RAND Health's Congressional Newsletters provides Congress with regular update of their recent works and is available in full text in pdf format (January 2002- ). The web site also provides research highlights and other Rand publications.

  • MedWeb@Emory [http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/]
    This web site links to many health-related web sites grouped under topics including: biological and physical sciences, clinical practice, consumer health, diseases and conditions, drugs, health care, institutions, and mental health.
Biomedical Issues
  • The President's Council on Bioethics [http://bioethics.gov]
    The purpose of this Council is to advice "the President on ethical issues related to advances in biomedical science and technology." Topics of concern include cloning, stem cells, beyond therapy (enhancement), patenting human life, biotechnology and public policy, sex selection, . . . The site provides meeting agenda, transcripts, reports and background materials.

  • Genome.gov (National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health) [http://www.genome.gov]
    Originally set up to map the human genome, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) (previously known as the National Center for Human Genome Research), is now one of 27 institutions and centers that make up the NIH. It applies genome technologies to the study of specific diseases. The web site provides information about NHGRI's research projects and its grant program. The "Policy & Ethics" section includes a searchable "Legislative Database" of federal and state laws and policies related to genetics (stem cell research, cloning, employment/insurance discrimination, etc.)

  • Bioethics Resources on the Web (National Institutes of Health)[http://www.nih.gov/sigs/bioethics/]
    The Web site includes resources that provide background information and various positions on issues in bioethics. These resources includes NIH bioethics-related resources; other federal resources, documents, reports and background info on specific bioethics topics.
Health Care Policy and Financing
  • Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) [http://www.hschange.com/]
    HSC is a nonpartisan policy research organization. Its web site links to many policy research reports published by HSC and other research centers on insurance coverage and costs, access to care, and local markets & managed care.

  • Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - Health Analyses [http://www.cbpp.org/pubs/health.htm]
    The Web site provides access to the research and analyses conducted by the Center over proposed health policies (1991- ). The Center on Budget an dPolicy Priorities is a nonprofit organization.

  • The Commonwealth Fund [http://www.cmwf.org/]
    The Commonwealth Fund is "a private Foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy." The Web site provides access to newsletters published by the Commonwealth Fund as well as issue briefs on various health law and policy issues .

  • Health Policy Institute (Georgetown University) [http://ihcrp.georgetown.edu/] is "a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and staff dedicated to conducting research on key issues in health policy and health services research." The Web sites provides links to institute research centers and projects, as well as papers by institute researchers.

  • Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation [http://www.kff.org/] The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. The foundation is not associated with Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries. The Web site includes full-text policy briefs, issue briefs, and reports by topic.

  • The Health Policy Center (Urban Institute) [http://www.urban.org/content/PolicyCenters/HealthPolicy/Overview.htm]
    This web site includes many publications by the Health Policy Center in pdf and html formats.

  • Families USA [http://www.familiesusa.org] is "a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans." The Web site provides updated information on issues such as medicaid and children's health, medicare, prescription drugs, the uninsured, private insurance, and minority health. It also provides access to the organization's publications.

  • Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC) [http://www.hlc.org] Provides healthcare providers's point of view. HLC is a coalition of chief executives from all disciplines within the health care system.
Public Health Law
  • Database on Health and Human Rights Actors (World Health Organization in partnership with the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center at the Harvard School of Public Health) [http://www.who.int/hhr/databases/actors/en/] contains information about different health and human rights organizations from around the world. All information is gathered from a survey of organizations concerning their structures and programs. You can browse by country or by health program area, or search for particular health program area in certain country.

  • Center for Law and Public Health (Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University) [http://www.publichealthlaw.net]
    Founded in 2000 with funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a joint institutional center, the Center has been recently designated a World Health Organization (WHO) and Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Collaborating Center on Public Health Law and Human Rights - the only academic center of its kind to receive this global status. The Web site contains reports of comprehensive research undertaken by the Center that examine the intersection of legal, social, and public health issues on selected public health law topics, the Center's newsletter "Center Insights", a public health law bibliography, as well as the full-text supplement to Public Health and Ethics: A Reader.

  • Harvard School of Public Health [http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/] The Web site provides general information about the School and its different departments, divisions, and programs offered. It also links to research conducted by difference centers within the School.

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LOCATING SECONDARY SOURCES

The following sources are useful in conducting a preemption check as well as researching your paper.

Legal Journal Databases/Indexes

Legal Journal Full Text Databases:

Westlaw and Lexis each cover about 400+ full-text journals back to the late 1980's (much overlap between the two systems)

  • Westlaw's JLR database
  • Lexis: Legal > Secondary Legal > Law Reviews & Journals > US Law Reviews and Journals, Combined
Legal Journal Indexes:
  • Legal Periodicals and Books (formerly Index to Legal Periodicals)
    Citations to articles from over 700 legal publications, plus monographs published in 1993 or later. Periodical coverage begins in August 1981. Legal Periodicals and Books Retro covers 1918-1981. Available at:
  • LegalTrac (also known as Legal Resource Index)
    Cumulative indexing of approximately 800 legal publications. Also includes law related articles from more than 1,000 additional business and general interest periodicals. Coverage begins in 1980. Available at:

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Government/Policy Think Tank Reports

  • Congressional Budget Office (CBO) [http://www.cbo.gov/]
    Among its other duties, CBO performs analytical studies at the request of a Congressional Committee or Subcommittee; the Congressional leadership; or as time permits, individual members. The analyses, which address a broad range of topics, are published as studies and papers or as letters, or they are delivered in testimony. Health-related reports (1979- ) are available at http://www.cbo.gov/publications/bysubject.cfm?cat=9

  • General Accountability Office (GAO) Report (1994- )[http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/]
    The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the investigative arm of Congress. "Its mission is to support Congress in meeting its Constitutional responsibilities (e.g. oversight, policy, and funding decision) and to help improve the performance and accountability of the Federal Government for the American People." Most GAO reports are done at the request of members of Congress.

  • PolicyFile (1990-) (Georgetown Law only) Indexes and abstracts public policy research and analyses originating from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations, and publishers (does not include CRS Reports). Where available, access to home pages and full text are made available within individual abstracts.

  • PAIS International (1972-) (Georgetown Law On-campus access only) Indexes public policy and public affairs literature.

  • CQ Researcher (Georgetown Law only) Weekly publication covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more.

  • Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS Reports) These are non-partisan and in-depth reports produced by the Congressional Research Service, the research arm of the Library of Congress, on a variety of topics for Congress. They are not widely available, but a few libraries have been collecting and making them accessible:

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Medical/Bioethics Journal Databases

  • Medline (Ovid) (1951- ) A version of Medline with access to the full text of many articles. Available to Georgetown faculty and students only through the Medical Center's Dahlgren Library. (only available to GU community, GULC students and faculty have on-campus access)

  • ETHX on the Web [http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/databases/]
    Created and maintained by the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL) at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, ETHX on the Web is a comprehensive bibliographic database of "journal articles, book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, books, audio-visuals, and news articles relating to bioethics and professional ethics." It contains over 180,000 citations. Most journal article records are from 1988 to the present, but approximately 12 per cent are prior to 1988. Books and audiovisuals acquired since 1975 are now in the database. Although most materials are in English, citations to materials in other languages, particularly Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, are present. The database is updated monthly. To do a precise search, you can search by NRCBL classification number. Almost every item cited in the database is available in NRCBL on main campus.
    The Law Library collects some materials on bioethics. Check GULLiver (The Law Library Catalog) and E-Journal Finder to determine if you can access the same materials in the Law Library.

Social Sciences and General Academic Journal Databases

  • Social Sciences Index (1983- ) (Georgetown Law only)
    Indexes articles in all areas of the social sciences, from 350 English-language journals. Covers anthropology, ethnic studies, economics, environment, geography, health, law and criminology, public administration, political science, psychology, sociology, urban studies and women's studies.

  • Academic Search Premier (1980s- ) (Georgetown Law only)
    Provides full text for 3,467 publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. A total of 4,425 titles are abstracted and indexed, of which 2,591 are peer-reviewed.

  • Contemporary Women Issues (1992- ) (Georgetown Law only)
    More than 1500 sources published by over 200 organizations around the world. Coverage begins with sources from 1992 and expands through the present with more than 150 periodicals in addition to non-periodical source publications. Sources provide information dealing with women's issues in over 190 nations. Access is provided on an annual subscription basis.

  • Ethnic NewsWatch (Georgetown Law only)
    Full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Includes articles editorials, columns, and reviews which provide a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints.

E-Journal Finder

  • After having searched all the above databases, you might have found some good citations but not the full-text articles. Check E-Journal Finder to find out if any of the libraries on Main Campus or the Law Library has a subscription of a database that includes your journal. If you can't find your journals on Journal Finder, you can request the article by interlibrary loan.

Library Catalog (GULLiver)

For books and publications held in the library on certain topics, search by keywords.

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STATUTORY SOURCES

Federal

United States Code (Including Title 21- Food and Drugs, Title 24- Hospitals and Asylums, Title 42- Public Health)
  • official and annotated codes in print - Reading Room and 4th Floor
  • Lexis (Legal > Area of Law-By Topic > Healthcare > Statutes & Legislative Materials > Federal)
  • Lexis (Legal > Area of Law-By Topic > Public Health and Welfare - Titles 26, 28, 29, 30, 42 and 45)
  • Westlaw (FHTH-USCA)
  • United States Code http://uscode.house.gov/ or http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode
  • Health Care Law Sources (Lexis: Legal > Area of Law - By Topic > HealthCare > Treatises & Analytical Materials > Matthew Bender (R) > Health Care Law Sourcebook - Selected Document) - Updated 3 times a year.
Legislative History

For some federal health laws, there are compiled legislative histories available in the Library. These compilations usually include bills, Congressional Record debates, reports and hearings. To find a compiled legislative history, try a keyword search in the Library Catalogue (http://gull.georgetown.edu), such as food drug and cosmetic act and legislation history. For complete legislative history information, read our legislative history research guide (http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/lib/guides/legislative_history.html). Good starting places for legislative history research include:

  • USCCAN (Reading Room and 4th Floor), also available on Westlaw's LH database (1944-present)
  • CIS Legislative History Indexes, available:
    • on the Library Web site as LexisNexis Congressional [http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/connect/ln_cong.cfm] (Georgetown Law only) (1789-present; full text: Serial Set from 1789 to 1969, all legislative history documentes from mid-1990-present)
    • Reading Room and First Floor, Media Services
    • on Lexis: Legal > Federal Legal - US > Legislative Histories & Materials > US - CIS Legislative Histories (1970-present & full text: mid-1990-present)
    • on Lexis: Legal > Federal Legal - US > Legislative Histories & Materials > CIS/Historical Index (1789-1980)
  • Thomas http://thomas.loc.gov/ (recent legislation only, 93rd Congress-present)

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State

  • Cornell's Legal Information Institute's State Statutes by Topic: Health links to state health laws by state. The currency of the statutes vary by state.
  • BNA publications are good sources of state legislative materials, especially new legislative developments.
  • Major Health Care Policies: Fifty State Profiles (5th Floor, RA413.5 U5 H43) provides annual updates of significant health issues states addressed in that year.
  • Westlaw: SURVEYS database provides 50 state surveys on over 40 health care topics. Sources: National Survey of State Laws, Multijurisdictional Survey, and West Surveys. Currency varies.
  • National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) [http://www.ncsl.org] is a bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states, its commonwealths and territories. The NCSL Web site provides research results on various public policy issues. Sometimes, NCSL provides 50-state analysis.
  • State Health Notes (National Conference of State Legislatures) [5th Floor, RA395 .A3 S7] [http://www.statehealthnotes.org/] (January 2003-present) is a biweekly publication designed to deliver health information to state legislators and legislative staff. It offers a national perspective on health care issues as well as a network of established key policy contacts in all 50 states. It also offers timely news concerning new bills, laws, proposals and programs.
  • Subject Compilations of State Laws (1981-) [REF, KF1 .F67] is an annotated bibliography listing journal articles or other publications that survey state laws on various topics.

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ADMINISTRATIVE SOURCES

Federal

Code of Federal Regulations
  • CFR - Reading Room and 4th Floor
  • Lexis (Legal > Areas of Law-By Topic > Healthcare > Administrative Materials & Regulations > Federal > CFR-Health Related Titles)
  • Lexis (Legal > Areas of Law-By Topic > Public Health and Welfare - Administrative Materials & Regulations > CFR-Health & Welfare Related Titles 20, 26, 29, 42, 45)
  • Westlaw: FHTH-CFR
  • GPO Access http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/
  • e-CFR http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ecfr/
  • Health Care Law Sources (Lexis: Legal > Area of Law - By Topic > HealthCare > Treatises & Analytical Materials > Matthew Bender > Health Care Law Sourcebook - Selected Document) - Updated 3 times a year.
Federal Register
  • Current issues - On Reserve at the Circulation Desk (note: older issues are on microfiche/microfilm in Media Services)
  • Lexis (Legal > Areas of Law-By Topic > Healthcare > Administrative Materials & Regulations > Federal > Federal Register and CFR > Health Related Titles and Documents)
  • Westlaw: FHTH-FR
  • Federal Register on GPO Access (vol. 59, 1994) http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html
  • Regulations.gov [http://www.regulations.gov/index.cfm] provides access to proposed regulations by topic, e.g. Health and Consumer Safety, and provides a venue for the public to comment on them.
Administrative Rulings
  • Lexis (Legal > Areas of Law-By Topic > Healthcare > Administrative Materials & Regulations > Federal > Agency Decisions)
  • Westlaw: Health and Human Services Decisions (FHTH-HHS), FDA Enforcement Report (FHTH-FDA), FDA Medical Bulletin (FDAMEDB), Health Care Financing Administration Buildings (FHTH-HCFA), National Disability Law Reporter (NDLRPTR), Provider Reimbursement Review Board Hearing & Appeals Decisions (FHTH-PRRB)
  • The Provider Reimbursement Review Board (from 1998) http://www.cms.hhs.gov/providers/prrb/prrb.asp
  • CCH's Medicare and Medicaid Guide [5th Floor KF3608 .A4C64]
Agencies

State

Agencies
  • State & Territorial Links (The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials) provides links to state health agencies.
  • Statehealthfacts.org (Kaiser Family Foundation) provides contact information of health agencies by state .
  • State Health Policy Web Portals (Center for Health Policy, Law and Management, Duke University) links to all known state-level health policy portals. If no portal has yet been identified for a state, a link to the state hospital association is provided.

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JUDICIARY SOURCES

Federal Court Cases
  • Lexis: Legal > Area of Law-By Topic > HealthCare > Cases > Federal > Federal Health Cases)
  • Lexis: Legal > Area of Law-By Topic > Public Health & Welfare > Cases)
  • Westlaw: FHTH-CS
  • Federal Reporters: Reading Room and 4th Floor

State Court Cases

  • Lexis: Legal > Area of Law-By Topic > HealthCare > Cases > State
  • Westlaw: All Databases > Topical Materials by Area of Practice > Health & Medicine > State Cases
  • State/Regional reporters: 4th Floor

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OTHER RESOURCES

Statistics

Health-Specific
  • National Center for Health Statistics [http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/] is the "Nation's principal health statistics agency." It compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of Americans.
  • Medicaid Statistics and Data [http://www.cms.hhs.gov/researchers/] The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) "offers researchers and other health care professionals a broad range of quantitative information on (its) programs, from estimates of further Medicare and Medicaid spending to enrollment, spending, and claims data. CMS also offers a broad range of consumer research to help its partners and staff."
  • Statehealthfacts.org (Kaiser Family Foundation) [http://www.statehealthfacts.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?] provides data on more than 450 health topics across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Data are collected from a variety of public and private sources, including: original Kaiser Family Foundation reports, data from public Web sites, and information purchased from private organizations.
  • Health Statistics (MedlinePlus) [http://medlineplus.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthstatistics.html] provides access to statistics and reports from various government agencies and independent organizations related to healthcare.
  • Statistical Resources on the Web: Health (University of Michigan Documents Center)
    [http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/sthealth.html] provides an annotated list of health statistical sources on the Web.
General
  • Statistical Abstract of the United States [5th Floor & INTL, HA202 .A22]. Also available online on the U.S. Censor Bureau Web site [http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/statab.html]
  • LexisNexis Statistical [http://web.lexis-nexis.com/statuniv/] (Georgetown Law only) has two components: "Tables" which provides the data, "Abstracts" which provides summaries of statistical publications including:
    • the American Statistics Index (ASI) (1973- ) which covers sources from various government departments and agencies;
    • Index to International Statistics (IIS) (1983- ) which covers sources from various international and regional organizations;
    • Statistical Reference Index (SRI) (1980- ) which covers sources from different types of associations and organizations.
      If you find an abstract, check the Web to see if the document is available on the Web. Lauinger Library on Main Campus maintains a microfiche collection of the full text of documents.
  • Current Index to Statistics [http://0-www.statindex.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/CIS/psqlQuery] (only available to GU community, GULC students and faculty have on-campus access)
    A bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. References are drawn from 111 core journals that are fully indexed, about 1200 non-core journals from which articles are selected that have statistical content, proceedings and edited books, and other sources. 1974-present.
  • American FactFinder (U.S. Census Bureau) [http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html]

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