Tag
data
-
Use these COVID-19 clinical trial trackers to keep up with research
It can be exhausting to keep up with who is testing what in the race to develop a vaccine for…
-
New data resources available on cesarean birth rates
One goal of the national Healthy People 2020 initiative was to reduce the rate of first-time cesarean delivery (C-section) rates…
-
Quality data on ambulatory surgery centers and hospital outpatient services available
As my colleague Joyce Frieden reported for MedPage Today on Tuesday, in 2020, reporters will be able to compare the…
-
New data resource on opioids available in AHCJ’s medical studies topic area
Deaths from drug overdose in 2017 alone exceeded the total number of Americans who died during the entire Vietnam War,…
-
New data resource on NSQIP database can inform coverage of relevant medical studies
More than 1,500 peer-reviewed studies have relied on a surgical database known as the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP),…
-
•
Conference panelists invite your input on their sessions
Health Journalism 2019 is coming up quickly – the fun and learning kicks off on May 2 with workshop-style sessions.…
-
Vox provides access to ER billing database for reporters
Over the past year, Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) at Vox has been collecting emergency department bills from around the country and…
-
VA surgery database explanation available for medical research reporting
Surgery research can become complex very quickly: Not only are there the underlying conditions and demographics of each patient to…
-
•
Newspaper’s suit over food stamp data headed to Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case brought eight years ago by a South Dakota newspaper asserting…
-
How are ACA’s quality measures affecting health care?
On a recent What the Health podcast, where I’m a frequent guest, we took some listeners’ questions. One was about…