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Health data
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String of errors made Stanford patient data public
In The New York Times, Kevin Sack traces the series of errors and lapses in judgement that led to a…
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NYT reporters tease hip replacement numbers from difficult data
Writing for The New York Times, Barry Meier and Janet Roberts analyzed a particularly tricky batch of federal reports detailing…
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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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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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Data shows disconnect between patient perception, hospital performance
Sifting through Medicare hospital rating data, USA Today reporters Steve Sternberg and Christopher Schnaars found an enlightening disconnect between patients’…
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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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ProPublica investigates ties between doc groups, industry
With an assist from Sen. Chuck Grassley, ProPublica senior reporters Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, AHCJ’s board president, have published…
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Spreadsheet lists malpractice claims against VA
In its “FOIA Friday” feature, the Project On Government Oversight reveals a spreadsheet (XLS format) of claims against the Department…
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Berwick debuts website featuring health data
By Susan Jaffe, Independent Journalist From Health Journalism 2011 Journalists have a key role to play making health care safer…
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Scenes from day one of the conference
The first day of Health Journalism 2011 included workshops on mapping and charting health data, criteria to help reporters accurately…