Entrepreneurship Resources: Health Futures
Articles
As a way of getting started, it may be helpful to search on the broad channel categories in article databases.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowComprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
Healthy Economy
- AHRQ: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality"The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of America's health care system."
- Healthy People 2030/2020"Healthy People provides 10-year, measurable public health objectives — and tools to help track progress toward achieving them."
- CAHPS: Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems"The purpose of AHRQ's Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) program is to advance our scientific understanding of patient experience with health care."
Hospital Efficiencies
- AHRQ: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality"The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of America's health care system."
- Fast Facts on U.S. HospitalsGeneral statistics from the American Hospital Association's annual survey of U.S. Hospitals
- FastStats - Hospital UtilizationStatistics relating to U.S. hospital utilization from the National Center for Health Statistics
- FastStats - Ambulatory Care Use and Physician office visitsStatistics from the National Center for Health Statistics for U.S. physician office visits
- Kaiser Family Foundation - Providers & Service Use"Data on health care facilities, including hospitals, nursing homes, community health centers, and rural health centers, and the health care workforce, such as physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and dentists. Data on access to care and health professional shortage areas are also included in this category."
Clinical Trials
- AllTrials"AllTrials is an international initiative of Ben Goldacre, BMJ, Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, Cochrane Collaboration, James Lind Initiative, PLOS and Sense about Science and is being led in the US by Sense About Science USA, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice."
- CONSORT"CONSORT stands for Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials and encompasses various initiatives developed by the CONSORT Group to alleviate the problems arising from inadequate reporting of randomized controlled trials."
- Enhancing the Diversity of Clinical Trial Populations — Eligibility Criteria, Enrollment Practices, and Trial Designs Guidance for IndustryFDA report with guidance that "aims to provide recommendations for how sponsors can increase enrollment of underrepresented populations in their clinical trials."
- Open TrialsOpenTrials is a collaboration between Open Knowledge International and Dr Ben Goldacre from the University of Oxford DataLab that "aims to locate, match, and share all publicly accessible data and documents, on all trials conducted, on all medicines and other treatments, globally."
Public Data Collection
- The DataLab - OxfordA product of the University of Oxford, The DataLab "builds live, interactive data-driven tools and services for everyone to use."
- Strategies for Improvement — Public Health Surveillance and DataThis CDC site "highlights the strategies, projects, innovation and resources driving these initiatives."