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Study: Good press releases contribute to good health journalism
Thanks to Gary Schwitzer for drawing attention to a study, published in BMJ, which analyzes the impact medical journal press…
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Ohio’s hospital transparency law under fire
Thanks are due to blogger and one-time hospital executive Paul Levy for drawing our attention to the Ohio hospital industry’s…
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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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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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Pharma discloses free meals, ProPublica expands database
In his latest report, ProPublica senior reporter and AHCJ board president Charles Ornstein explains exactly how, since its founding last…
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Find health data at Childstats.gov, a clearinghouse for kid numbers
Time to add another link to your “federal data clearinghouses” folder, if you haven’t already. Childstats.gov, published by the Federal…
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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…
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Two new resources for covering Health Policy
There are two more resources to share with you from two of health journalisms’ ever-helpful friends, the Kaiser Family Foundation…
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New life expectancy data can add context
to reporting on local healthA new data release today from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation gives journalists some unique tools to help…
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Study offers context for reporting on health insurance exchanges
The first tip sheet I wrote about covering Health Policy was pegged to the one-year mark of the Affordable Care…