Important Health Care Policy & Management Government Information

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
AHRQ is the lead Federal agency charged with supporting research designed to improve the quality of healthcare, reduce its cost, improve patient safety, decrease medical errors and broaden access to e...   [more]
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AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange
Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, this web site is a clearinghouse for tools for measuring and improving the quality of healthcare....   [more]
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Annual Review of Population Law
Summaries and excerpts of legislation, constitutions, court decisions, and other official government documents from every country in the world relating to population policies, reproductive rights and ...   [more]
Holdings: 1974-present.
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Cancer Mondial (World Cancer Statistics)
This website provides access to information on the occurrence of cancer world-wide held by the Unit of Descriptive Epidemiology at the International Agency for Research on Cancer. ...   [more]
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CDC Wonder - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Database of reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data by mortality, natality, disease and demographic groups. Access is free and registration is optional....   [more]
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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Supplemental URLs
    Research, Statistics, Data and Systems
    Medicare Learning Network (MLN)

CRS Reports (Thurgood Marshall Law Library)
Congressional Research Service reports on homeland security and terrorism issues and on health law and policy....   [more]
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Department of Veteran Affairs
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Federal Register. 1994-
Also Known as: GPO Access
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FedStats
Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies ...   [more]
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
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Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
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Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
Also Known as: HCUPnet
Provides aggregate national statistics and trends and selected state statistics about hospital stays, using data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), the Kids' Inpatient Database (KID), and the...   [more]
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Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)
US government-sponsored database of policy strategy-related documents on homeland security. Topics covered include: borders and immigration, emergency management, infrastructure protection, intelligen...   [more]

Living Standards Measurement Study
Also Known as: World Bank LSMS
Household survey datasets, documentation, and reports conducted in countries worldwide for the World Bank in 1986-present. Multitopic questionnaires collect data on households, covering housing charac...   [more]
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London Pulse: Medical Officer of Health Report 1848-1972
The reports provided statistical data about births, deaths and diseases, but they also allowed the authors to express the diversity of their local communities and their own personal interests. The rep...   [more]
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National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC)
Sponsored by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), National Quality Measures Clearinghouse is a database and Web site for information on specific evidence-based health care quali...   [more]
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NATLEX
Abstracts of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation from more than 170 countries. Topics include: freedom of association, collective bargaining, elimination of child lab...   [more]
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NIH Office of Medical Applications of Research (OMAR)
The NIH Office of Medical Applications of Research prepares evidence-based assessments of medical practice and state-of -the- science for dissemination to health care providers and the public....   [more]
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
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Patient Safety Authority
The Patient Safety Authority is an independent state agency established under Act 13 of 2002, the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error ("MCARE") Act. It is charged with taking steps to re...   [more]
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Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4)
The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) is an independent state agency responsible for addressing the problem of escalating health costs, ensuring the quality of health care, and ...   [more]
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Philadelphia Department of Public Health
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Popular Names of U.S. Government Reports
Reproduces first four editions (1966, 1970, 1976, 1980) of a basic U.S. government documents reference work that provides bibliographic citations to reports by their popular name....   [more]
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Proquest Statistical Insight
Also Known as: Statistical Universe, lexisnexis statistical
Statistical Universe indexes statistical data published in federal, state, and selected privately published titles, at the table level. In some cases the fulltext of the document is also available....   [more]

PSNet Patient Safety Network
As a one-stop portal of resources for improving patient safety and preventing medical errors, PSNet is the first comprehensive effort to help health care providers, administrators, and consumers learn...   [more]
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Regulations.Gov
On this site, the public can find, review and submit comments on Federal documents that are open for comments and published in the Federal Register....   [more]
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State of the World's Children
UNICEF annual publication, provides overview statistics on nutrition, education, economic, social, and health issues affecting children worldwide and treats a single issue in depth: girls, education a...   [more]
Holdings: 1996-present.
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U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
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UNdata
The central statistical information service for the United Nations and its affiliates and international partners. Replaces UNSTATS....   [more]
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UNSTATS
Also Known as: United Nations Common Database, UNCDB
Time series statistical information for countries collected from UN and related international governmental organizations. Topics covered include population composition and change; human settlements, h...   [more]
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WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) - World Health Organization (WHO)
Also Known as: WHOSIS
Guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization....   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    Old WHOSIS URL

World Bank Research Datasets
Datasets compiled for World Bank research in agriculture, domestic and household finance, education, environment, globalization, governance, health, population and demography, industry, infrastructure...   [more]
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Related Health Care Policy & Management Government Information

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (GPO)
Also Known as: MoCat, CGP, Monthly Catalog
This online catalog consists of bibliographic records published in the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications (MOCAT). Records describe Government information products avai...   [more]
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ProQuest Congressional
Also Known as: Congressional Universe, LexisNexis Congressional, Lexis Nexis Congressional
U.S. legislative publications and government information. Much of the material is fulltext. Includes pending bills, laws, legislative histories, committee reports and documents, Congressional heari...   [more]
Holdings: Varies with document series
Supplemental URLs
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