The Boston College Libraries are happy to offer the American Hospital Association Annual Survey Database to the Boston College Community.
This database contains comprehensive hospital data from 6,500 hospitals surveyed about their operations. Topics include: demographics, organizational structure, facilities and services, utilization data, community orientation indicators, physician arrangements, managed care relationships and expenses.
The wealth of data will be of use to many subject areas besides the health care fields. Social work, sociology, and education are interested in how health care affects people in the community and in the quality of their lives. Psychologists would want to know what services are available in the psychiatric care units, both on an inpatient and outpatient basis. The data can be used to track health care trends and inform health care policy proposals. The economic, financial and business aspects of health care are apparent. Communications and the media cover all of these aspects of health care data. The uses of this date are limitless.
Both Barbara Mento and ITS Research Services are available for assistance.
The Reference Desk Staff will ask the user to sign a license agreement, then log-on the user to the AHA ASD software. Users will be asked to log off when finished with the AHA ASD database. Printing will follow the same directions as for GIS.
Please let us know if you have any questions
Barbara Mento, Data/GIS Librarian
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