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data
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Hospital Compare helps reporter fact check claims
After the local county commission voted to close Birmingham’s Cooper Green Mercy Hospital and replace it with a hub-and-spoke system…
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Member uses data to track doctors’ referrals; AHCJ members get a first look
AHCJ member Fred Trotter publicly unveiled a major data set last week that could reshape how journalists report on medical…
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Stories are waiting to be found in new stats on seniors
Older Americans 2012, a new report from the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics, is an important resource for reporters…
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Rau explains using data to write about hospital readmissions
Many health policy experts believe that hospital readmissions are symptomatic of the broad dysfunction of the health care system in…
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Shifts in aging populations affect communities; check data for your state
Which region of the country is aging most rapidly? It’s New England, where all six states appear on the list…
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AP puts numbers on the prescription drug epidemic
The Associated Press’ Chris Hawley has worked through the latest numbers on the prescription painkiller boom, helping to illustrate the…
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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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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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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…