title: Publicly available healthcare databases for administrative strategic planning.
abstract: Existing public databases may help nurse administrators better understand the rapidly changing and increasingly complex healthcare environment. The authors discuss the availability of public healthcare databases and demonstrate through a hypothetical query how nurse administrators can use these databases during their decision-making efforts.
authors.affiliation: University of Pennsylvania, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, USA. dvahey@nursing.upenn.edu
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Vahey
authors.forename: W D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Corser
authors.forename: P F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Brennan
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000592:standards; D003660:Decision Support Systems, Management / Q000592:standards; D006077:Government Agencies; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface