These resources are related to the program "The Business of Healthcare in Pennsylvania: Medical, Legal and Patient Perspectives" on Tuesday, 9 November. For more information regarding the program, visit the Center for Ethics website.

Reference Works

Bersoff, Donald. Law & mental health professionals. Pennsylvania. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1999.
Ref. 344.748044 L415a

Longe, Jacqueline L., ed. Gale encyclopedia of medicine, 2nd ed. Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2002.
Ref. 616.003 G151e v.1-5

Nordhaus, Hannah. Health: a concern for every American. Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2001.
Ref. 362.1 H863h

Shannon, Joyce Brennfleck, ed. Worldwide health sourcebook: basic information about global health issues, including malnutrition, reproductive health, disease dispersion and prevention. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 2001.
Ref. 362.1 W927h

Finding Articles: Databases and Indexes

Topical Databases:

Business and Company ASAP
Full-text database that is useful for finding articles on the business and economics of health care.

Business Source Elite
Another full-text database that is useful for finding articles on the business and economics of health care.

Health Source
Full-text database that is focused on medical, health, and public health information. HealthSource contains both scholarly and popular articles.

Lexis-Nexis Academic
General news magazines, periodicals, international news, etc… Also has a section on legal research and on medical news and journal articles.

LexisNexis Congressional
Use this to search for federal bills, laws and hearings on the health care industry.

PubMed (Medline)
An excellent source for finding articles from the medical field.

Interdisciplinary Databases:

Academic Search Premier
Indexes, Abstracts, Citations and Full text publications covering most disciplines.

OmniFile (WilsonWeb)
Multidisciplinary database providing the complete content--indexing, abstracts, and full text--from six of Wilson's full-text databases.

Subject Headings

Using these Library of Congress Subject Headings in your searches will help you obtain more relevant information from databases and the library catalog:

Dispute resolution (Law)
Insurance, Physicians' liability
Health care reform
Health services accessibility
Malpractice
Medical care -- Cost control -- Law and legislation
Medical economics
Medical personnel -- Malpractice
Pharmacists Malpractice
Physicians -- Malpractice
Psychotherapists Malpractice
Public health personnel Malpractice

Selected Works from the Main Collection and Government Documents

Main Collection

Culyer, Anthony J. and Joseph P. Newhouse, eds. Handbook of health economics. New York: Elsevier, 2000.
Main Collection 338.433621 H236o

De Ville, Kenneth Allen. Medical malpractice in nineteenth-century America: origins and legacy. New York : New York University Press, 1990.
Main Collection 346.7303 D494m

Holahan, John, Alan Weil and Joshua M. Wiener. Federalism and health policy. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 2003.
Main Collection 368.420973 H722f

Patel, Kant and Mark E. Rushefsky. Health care policy in an age of new technologies. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002.
Main Collection 362.1 P295h

Patel, Kant and Mark E. Rushefsky. Health care politics and policy in America, 2nd ed. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.
Main Collection 362.1 P295he

Sloan, Frank A., Randall R. Bovbjerg, and Penny B. Githens. Insuring medical malpractice. New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
Main Collection 368.564 S634i

Government Documents

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. The medical liability insurance crisis : a review of the situation in Pennsylvania : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, February 10, 2003. Washington, DC: GPO, 2003.
Docs Microforms Y 4.C 73/8:108-4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness. Dying for help : are patients needlessly suffering due to the high cost of medical liability insurance? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, October 1, 2003. Washington, DC: GPO, 2004.
URL: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS47581
Docs Micforms Y 4.G 74/7:H 36

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-Cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2003 : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, on H.R. 5, March 4, 2003. Washington, DC: GPO, 2003.
URL: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS42793
Govt Docs Y 4.J 89/1:108/3

United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment. Health Program. Impact of legal reforms on medical malpractice costs. Washington, DC: GPO, 1993.
Govt Docs Y 3.T 22/2:2 M 46/17

United States. General Accounting Office. Medical malpractice insurance: multiple factors have contributed to increased premium rates : report to Congressional requesters. Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office, 2003.
URL: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS37483

Selected Websites

American Medical Association: Professional Liability Insurance Page
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/7800.html

Pennsylvania Trial Lawyer's Association: Medical Malpractice Section
http://www.patla.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Sections_and_Committees/Medical_Malpractice_Section/Medical_Malpractice_Section.htm

Project on Medical Liability (Pew Charitable Trusts)
http://medliabilitypa.org/

PMSLIC (Pennsylvania Medical Society Liability Insurance Company)
The largest writer of professional liability insurance for individual physicians in Pennsylvania.
http://www.pmslic.com/

Pennsylvania Government

PA Department of Health
http://www.dsf.health.state.pa.us/health/site/

PA Department of Insurance
http://www.ins.state.pa.us/ins/site/default.asp

PA Office of Health Care Reform
http://www.ohcr.state.pa.us/OHCR_index.htm

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