Helpful Links
Explore a collection of hand-selected, valuable links for health care journalists.
Helpful Links
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- Health Policy
Primary care
Primary Care Progress, an advocacy group with chapters at medical schools and other health professional training schools, working to change…
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- Medical Studies
Priming
This entry on priming at VeryWell gives a nice overview of the phenomenon as well as details on different types…
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- Insurance
Provider organizations
America’s Physician Groups is an advocacy organization that supports physician groups that assume responsibility for clinically integrated, comprehensive and coordinated…
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- Aging
Provisional Life Expectancy Estimates 2020
This report presents life expectancy estimates calculated using abridged period life tables based on provisional death counts for 2020, by…
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- Insurance
Public policy organizations
The Greenlining Institute is a public policy, research, and nonprofit advocacy organization that seeks to advance economic opportunities for people…
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- Patient Safety
Publications
Patient Safety Published by the Patient Safety Authority, an independent agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, this journal’s first edition…
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- Patient Safety
Re-opening America
COVID-19 and Dentistry: Challenges and Opportunities for Providing Safe Care: The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) effectively shut down…
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- Aging
Readiness Assessment
One of the first steps in undertaking a major organizational change is the evaluation of the preparedness of the organization…
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- Health Policy
Reading list
Health reform topic leader Joanne Kenen has compiled a list of books that journalists might find useful. She says: “Most…
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- Health Policy
Readmissions
The Kaiser Family Foundation has an issue brief, “Aiming for Fewer Hospital U-turns: The Medicare Hospital Readmission Reduction Program,” that…
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- Aging
Reform
This table from the Urban Institute shows the effect of the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) on uninsured non-elderly adults…
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- Health IT
Regional telehealth resources
California Telemedicine and eHealth Center Northeast Telehealth Resource Center Upper Midwest Telehealth Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center Great Plains Telehealth…
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- COVID-19
Reopening America
How to Reopen America Safely: As states begin to reopen, school, work, and everyday life will look different, and people…
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- Health Policy
Repeal and replace
The American Academy of Actuaries analyzes health insurance ideas and trends, and in early 2017 began releasing a series of nonpartisan briefs…
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- Insurance
Report examines steps governors, Medicaid directors can take to improve health care delivery in the states
The State Health Care Cost Containment Commission, a project of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, released a report: Cracking…
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- Infectious Diseases
Reports and studies
“Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2019” (2019 AR Threats Report) is a publication of the Antibiotic Resistance Coordination…
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- Insurance
Reports/Studies
A study from the RAND Corporation published in JAMA Open Network, “Trends in Low-Value Health Service Use and Spending in…
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- Firearm Violence
Research and Academic Centers
The BulletPoints ProjectThe project was established in 2019 by the California Firearm Violence Research Center at UC Davis through a…
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- Health Policy
Research organization
The Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS) from the Urban Institute is an Internet-based survey of the nonelderly population that monitors the…
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- Insurance
Research organizations
Council for Informed Drug-Spending Analysis is an independent, nonpartisan group of academic experts who analyze drug-spending policies without influence from pharmaceutical…
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- Health IT
Research organizations
Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute – Affiliated with Sutter Health, the California hospital giant, conducts clinical trials on a…
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- COVID-19
Research Reports
LexisNexis COVID-19 Quick Searches: COVID-19 has been dominating global news, financial reporting, legislation, patent filings and everything in between. To…
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- Mental Health
Resource Links
We are gathering the best sources for information about behavioral and mental health. Click on the resource that interests you…
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- Aging
Retirement/labor/employment
Ageing and Employment Policies: United States 2018 According to the organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2016 employment rates at…
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- Medical Studies
Risk communication
This short blog post on risk ratios is a good refresher if you’re uncertain how to translate a relative risk…
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- Health Policy
Rural health
Ruralhealthinfo.org: The Rural Health Information Hub, based at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has…
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- COVID-19
Rural Response
The Rural Information Hub has information about activities underway to address COVID-19, including an Emergency Preparedness guide for communication planning…
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- Aging
Science of aging
Disease drivers of aging e-briefing — comprehensive summary report on the The 2016 Advances in Geroscience Summit, from the New York…
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- Medical Studies
Screening
Screening and diagnostic tests, from Medscape: If you want to dig more into the differences between screening and diagnostic tests, this…
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- Patient Safety
Screening
A federal advisory panel with an odd name helps doctors evaluate which patients should get screening tests and when they…
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- Medical Studies
Sexual abuse, assault and harassment
Poynter’s “11 resources for responsibly reporting on rape” includes links to tip sheets from the DART Center as well as…
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- Aging
Sleep
These resources provide information about sleep conditions and improving sleep. American Academy of Sleep Medicine 2510 North Frontage Road Darien,…
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- Aging
Social Security
Social Security Spotlight is a report and interactive data project from the National Committee to Preserve Social Security Foundation details…
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- Aging
Sourcing and style guides
Disability Language Style Guide from the National Center on Disability and Journalism — excellent guidelines and language alternatives when reporting on…
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- COVID-19
Spanish-language Resources
Johns Hopkins Medicine has launched a Spanish-language COVID-19 resources portal. This one-stop shop for information in Spanish offers COVID-19 testing…
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- Insurance
State agencies
The Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) is a state agency in Massachusetts that collects financial and patient-level data…
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- Infectious Diseases
State and local agencies
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials The national nonprofit organization representing the U.S.’s public health agencies and their…
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- Health Policy
State resources
The National Academy of State Health Policy (NASHP) is a nonpartisan resource that tracks numerous health trends in states, including…
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- Aging
Stereotypes
Frameworks Institute guide on reframing aging language: uses the evidence-informed findings from the Reframing Aging Initiative and the best practices…
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- Aging
Storytelling
This free white paper from Tableau will help you understand and decide which chart is best for the type of data you’re…
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- Health Equity
Stress and the allostatic load hypothesis
NAS Trauma Systems report (2016) This report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine looks at the nation’s…
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- Health IT
Studies and research
MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare 2017 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey Creative Strategies: Market research, consulting and advisory…
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- Medical Studies
Study design
You can use this online ClinCalc sample size calculator to determine what sample size is needed in a study to…
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- Health Policy
Subsidy lawsuits
As you follow the legal fight over whether ACA subsidies can flow through the federal exchanges, or only the state…
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- Aging
Supply chain
Healthcare ready is consortium of trade associations, comprising the bio-pharmaceutical supply chain and the American Red Cross established post-Katrina to…
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- Health Policy
Tax aspects of the ACA
This IRS chart shows how employers have to report pre-tax health benefits on W-2 forms. The idea, part of the…
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- Aging
The Healthy Brain Initiative 2013-2018
This report from the Alzheimer’s Association and the CDC provides the Public Health Road Map for State and National Partnerships,…
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- Health IT
Think tanks
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, focused on the intersection of technology and public policy, including health policy. Pew Charitable Trusts…
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- Aging
TimeSlips
A nationally recognized storytelling program for people with dementia, with information and resources for care professionals, educators, family and friends. …
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- Insurance
Trade Associations
The Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC) is a nonprofit trade association representing 81 health information exchanges (HIEs) that transmit…
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- Aging
Transitional care
Where do they go from the hospital? (Mary Naylor presentation) Care transitions: Role of geriatric care managers (Emily Saltz presentation)…
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- Infectious Diseases
U.S. federal government agencies
The National Institutes of Health launched the Science, Health, and Public Trust initiative to share strategies and best practices to…
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- Health Policy
U.S. Supreme Court case
The Kaiser Family Foundation has put together this guide to the Supreme Court’s review of the Affordable care Act. State attorneys general…
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- Medical Studies
Understanding bias
Detection bias is another word for surveillance bias, explained well here. This article, “Selection Bias and Information Bias in Clinical…
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- Medical Studies
Understanding statistics
This incredible resource, “It’s the Effect Size, Stupid” from University of Durham (UK) professor Robert Coe, is an excellent overview…
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- COVID-19
Vaccines
Supporting an Equitable Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines: Key Themes, Strategies, and Challenges Across State and Territorial COVID-19 Vaccination Plans (Dec.…
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- Health Policy
Value-based purchasing
CMS FAQ on Value-Based Purchasing This 32-page FAQ goes into a great deal of detail about changes in Medicare hospital…
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- Health Equity
Veterans
National Veteran Health Equity Report – A government project by the Veterans Administration, this report by the VA’s Office of…
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- Health Equity
Violent injuries & deaths
Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research: Part of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, its Center…
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- Aging
Volunteering – older adults
Profile of Older Adult Volunteers 65 (a report from the Corporation for National and Community Service) Volunteer Growth in America:…
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- Infectious Diseases
Web-based infectious disease resources
Antibiotic Stewardship in Long-Term Care Facilities The Pew Trusts Antibiotic Resistance project offers important and timely background information and analysis…
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- Medical Studies
Websites on statistics, studies and media coverage
World Health Organization: Understanding the organization, budget, funding and activities of the World Health Organization can put its role in terms…
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- Health Equity
Women’s health
SWAN: Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation This multi-site, longterm epidemiological study focuses on the health of U.S. women…
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- Aging
Women’s health
Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald makes the case for women’s health rehabilitation in this presentation.
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- Aging
Workforce
2020 Nursing Home Salary & Benefits Report, published by Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service. Includes salary information about 760 types…
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- Health IT
Workgroups
Annual Report Workgroup ( on 21st Century Cures law progress) Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI): Formed in 1991 by…
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