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Healthstar (Ovid)
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- Alternate title
- Ovid Healthstar
- Description
- Ovid Healthstar is comprised of data from the National Library of Medicine's (NLM)
MEDLINE and former Healthstar
databases. It contains citations to the published literature on health services, technology,
administration, and
research. It focuses on both the clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery. The
following topics are
included: evaluation of patient outcomes; effectiveness of procedures, programs, products,
services and processes;
administration and planning of health facilities, services and manpower; health insurance;
health policy; health
services research; health economics and financial management; laws and regulation; personnel
administration; quality
assurance; licensure; and accreditation.
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- Dates covered
- 1966+.
- Updating frequency
- Monthly.
- Sources
- Information in Ovid Healthstar is derived from MEDLINE,
the Hospital Literature Index, and selected additional journals.
- Type of coverage
- The database contains citations and abstracts (when available)
to journal articles, monographs, technical reports, meeting abstracts and papers, book chapters,
government documents,
and newspaper articles from 1966 to the present. In 2001, Ovid Healthstar also added
selective coverage of evaluation
studies, newspaper articles, and validation studies.
Citations are indexed with the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings in order to
ensure compatibility
with other NLM databases.
Ovid Healthstar incorporates a small proportion of full-text material.
- Print Counterpart or related resources
- Material included in Ovid Healthstar was derived primarily from Hospital Literature
Index and
selectively from Index
Medicus. Since 2000, material included is derived primarily from MEDLINE.
- Producer/content provider
- Ovid
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Ovid
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