LibGuides: MGMT 5995 Healthcare Strategy, Innovation, and Change Projects: Getting Started

Introduction

This guide will help you manage the research and information needs of a graduate-level MGMT 5995 Healthcare Strategy, Innovation, and Change Projects class. It contains several parts.

The Healthcare Management & Finance tab has useful tips and information specific to the business side of healthcare, including e-books in finance and management in a healthcare industry context.
The Company Research, Industry & Market Analysis, and Industry Research Step-by-Step tabs will help you navigate the CSULA databases available for business research. Each tab has step-by-step instructions on how to use the relevant portions of them.
The Financial Analysis, Ratios, SEC Filings, and Strategy & Analysis tabs provide resources for many common business analytics and decision-making tools.
The tabs, APA Guide, give basic information about APA format as well as Refworks, a tool for creating in-text and bibliographic references.
Finally, under the Public Health tab, there is a list of useful public health websites recommended by your professor.

As always, if you have questions or need help, feel free to email Business and Economics Librarian Summer Peng at summer@calstatela.edu or visit during office hours.

Links to Business Literature Databases

Links to library databases for searching the literature (scholarly, popular and trade/industry) on business topics:

Business Source Premier
Like ABI/Inform, a core business database for literature reviews and finding scholarly articles.
Google Scholar
Use this to link to Google Scholar and include links to Cal State LA Library paid content
RefWorks
Refworks can be a time and aggravation saver. Use it to create reference pages and in text citations. If you are ever asked for a group code it is rwcsulosangeles.

IBISWorld
Offers U.S. industry research and analysis for 700 market segments, aiding in market understanding, competitor analysis, business planning, benchmarking, forecasting, valuations, litigation support, and due diligence. It includes industry statistics, trends, procurement analysis, price trends, supply chain risks, and supplier benchmarks, with reports typically 25–30 pages long and regularly updated.

Links to Medical Databases

PubMed
Citations and abstracts for peer-reviewed research in health sciences, mental health, public health, and a wide range of biomedical research areas. Can be used to find eBooks, clinical trials results, systematic reviews, meta-analysis, randomized controlled trials, and case studies.
MEDLINE
Peer-reviewed articles in medicine, microbiology, nursing, psychiatry, public health, sports medicine, and more
Index with abstracts to more than 4,500 journals published worldwide in 30 languages, covering all areas of medicine (including nursing, public health, pharmacy, sports medicine, psychiatry, dentistry, veterinary medicine, etc.).
Look up all the abbreviated journal names used in MEDLINE in List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus/MEDLINE.
1966 to date. Updated monthly.

Guides
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Peer-reviewed articles and non-scholarly trade articles focused on health, nursing, and allied-health professions like physical therapy. Useful for identifying research on evidence-based practice.

Questions about business basics? Start here!

Investopedia
The best business dictionary and collection of explanatory articles on the planet. Amazing resource!

Business research and analysis can be difficult if you are new to certain areas. For example, if you work primarily in marketing but need to deal with a finance related issue you could spend an enormous amount of time just identifying relevant concepts and what they mean. Here are my favorite sites for 'ramping up' quickly and easily when I am new to an area or concept.

Portable MBA

The Portable MBA

Great E-book that can fill in the gaps or refresh your knowledge regarding most business concepts. Excellent chapter on business analysis and valuation of companies as well as good information regarding all functional areas (marketing, strategy, accounting, financce, cis etc.)