HealthSTAR

SilverPlatter

The Medical & Pharmaceutical Collection

HealthSTAR, with over 2,800,000 records, is a valuable tool for those involved in the following:

Health-Sciences

Healthcare

DATA TYPE: Bibliographic

COVERAGE: 1975-Present; Rolling 10 years; Rolling 5 years

RECORDS ADDED ANNUALLY: 180,000+

HealthSTAR merges the contents of the former HEALTH and HSTAR databases with a focus on the clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery. HealthSTAR cites literature on health care administration, economics, planning and policy as well as health services research, clinical practice guidelines and health care technology assessment. Over 2.8 million citations are included to journal articles, monographs, monographic series, technical and government reports, meeting abstracts, conference papers, book chapters and newspaper articles.

With your choice of SilverPlatter’s search and retrieval software (SPIRS) for Web, Windows, Macintosh, PC or UNIX clients, you can easily: search the entire database in a single keystroke; target your search to a specific area of interest; free-text search through the database; use Boolean and proximity operators for searching, including AND, OR, NOT, WITH, NEAR, ADJ; switch easily from brief to full record; search HealthSTAR AND other databases at the same time for truly comprehensive results; combine current and previous search statement and much, much more!