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Health data
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AHCJ urges Joint Commission to release inspection results
The Association of Health Care Journalists has called upon The Joint Commission to make public its hospital accreditation surveys and…
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How health care price fixing works in Maryland
As part of her series in National Journal, Margot Sanger-Katz explains how four decades of health care price controls have…
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Leaded aviation fuel a threat to public health, children
KUOW’s John Ryan used federal data and a few key sources to delve deep into issues surrounding one of the…
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Investigation delves into Wash.’s prescription drug problem
Everything time we think prescription drug abuse stories have peaked, something comes along to push the story further. This time,…
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Share your thoughts on database design for tracking pharma payments to doctors
Curtis Brainard of Columbia Journalism Review reminds reporters that their input is needed on the design of a federal database…
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Reuters shows how shell companies hide Medicare fraud in plain sight
Reporting for Reuters, Brian Grow and Matthew Bigg used an analysis of public data to investigate the practice of using…
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Journalists should learn about study design, evidence-based medicine
Earlier this month I saw on Twitter one of those collisions between journalism and wonkdom. Maybe “collision” isn’t the right…
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BMJ analysis reveals widespread publication/selection bias in research
Reporting on a study released by BMJ and characterized as an almost existential threat to the medical research system by…
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Project looks at problems in how deaths are investigated
The results of a yearlong joint investigation of the American autopsy system by ProPublica, Frontline and NPR show that problems…
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Journalism organizations ask HRSA to clarify how it will exercise restrictions
The Association of Health Care Journalists and five other journalism organizations asked federal health officials this week to specify how…