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Public health
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Dallas reporters use AHRQ data to measure patient safety
The Dallas Morning News continues its 19-month investigation into patient safety at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Memorial Hospital.…
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Guidelines for journalists, public health officials strive to avoid Contagion-like situation
In an effort to prevent some of the fictional events of the movie “Contagion” from happening, health officials and AHCJ…
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Behind Oklahoma’s nation-leading access-to-care problems
In February, the New England Journal of Medicine ranked Oklahoma as the worst when it came to access to medical…
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Panel of science, health journalists will discuss government transparency in webcast panel
A panel at the National Press Club this afternoon, which will be webcast, will look at government transparency when it…
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Dartmouth Atlas report shows little improvement in readmissions
In the National Journal, Maggie Fox explains a new Dartmouth Atlas Project report (PDF) which demonstrates that, despite the looming…
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Cash-strapped Ill. goes after hospitals’ nonprofit status
A New York Times article written by Bruce Japsen, an independent journalist writing for the Chicago News Co-Op, digs into…
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Agency declines to restore public data
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration resisted demands by three major journalism organizations for the immediate restoration of a…
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Reporter finds the story behind food code violations
All the time that The Muskegon Chronicle‘s Brian McVicar has been spending with his county health department’s inspection records has…
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Stories to be found in local poison control centers
Poison control centers narrowly escaped losing almost all federal funding this year and their appropriations are down, despite evidence that…
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Minority population swells in nursing homes
In The Providence Journal, reporter and AHCJ board member Felice Freyer reports on the local effects of the national trend…