The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "American Medical Association" ...
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Investigating Medical Malpractice
This tipsheet lists website that can help reporters get information about doctors and their histories of medical malpractice claims. The list includes the Federation of State Medical Boards and the National Practitioners Databank. All together there are seven websites listed.
Tags: hospitals; doctors; medicine; lawsuits; court; American Medical Association
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Internet Resources and Public Records
Provides a listing of websites for information about drug trials; lists sites to help track money, survivors and doctors; Includes reference points to use in accountability; Lists other databases available on the FDA website that are helpful
Tags: Federal Drug Administration; drug trials; pharmaceutical industry; American Medical Association; National Bioethics Advisory Commission
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FOI Report: Physicians and greater access, E-mails and cookies: Electronic tests of open records
Davis writes a monthly column in the IRE journal about new developments in FOI laws. This tipsheet is two such columns which discuss physician databases, and whether emails are open records.
Tags: FOI e-mail; cookie; open records; computer; "gathering; " American Medical Association; AMA; state licensing