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Public records
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AHCJ opens dialog to improve journalists’ access to medical society meetings
The Association of Health Care Journalists has launched an effort to improve reporters’ access to the data and information released…
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AHRQ details spending on health care
Among recent releases from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, its data on who’s spending what on health care…
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Reporters: Federal public affairs staffers block access to information
Reporters who cover federal government agencies say they face impediments to getting information to the public because of interference from…
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Network drives increase in painkiller prescriptions
In the latest installment of his ongoing investigation for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today, John Fauber looks for…
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AHCJ calls for accessible reporting of physician payments
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should create an easily usable and searchable database when it publishes information from…
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CMS-ordered report, withheld by hospital, reveals hundreds of deficiencies
When Ryan McNeill of The Dallas Morning News recently wrote for AHCJ about that paper’s investigation into patient care and…
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Programming errors led to overdoses with pain-medicine pumps
Building off a state health department report showing that, as The Morning Call‘s Tim Darragh wrote, “Nurses at St. Luke’s…
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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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NYT series digs into overprescription and developmentally disabled adults
In the series Abused and Used, New York Times reporter Danny Hakim and a host of his colleagues have been…