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 "malpractice" ...
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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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CAR Investigations into Health Care
This tipsheet lists eight websites that are useful for investigating health care. The list includes www.healthlaw.org and the website for the Federation of State Medical Boards. For each website, Schulte offers a brief description of what information can be found there.
Tags: health care; internet; invisible web; Medicare; Medicaid; doctors; health care workers; hospitals; patients; malpractice
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Tips on Health and Quality Care Investigations
This tipsheet is a guide to reporting on incompetent doctors. It lists resources like websites and government agencies that could be useful for reporters covering the topic.
Tags: health; hospitals; insurance; surgery; Department of Health; malpractice
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Lesser-known records you should know about
Stanley takes a look at how to find some types of records that you may not know about. He has tips on how to find information about nonprofit organizations through GuideStar. State government audits are also available online, which can uncover great story ideas. There's also a complete list of childcare facilities and recent inspections online. Stanley also suggests ways to find divorce files, professional licenses, closed malpractice claims, and how to conduct the perfect Google search.
Tags: nonprofits; government; childcare; divorce files; professional licenses; closed malpractice claims; Google
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Internet sites for health care fraud and abuse
Schulte provides a list of helpful web links on health care fraud and abuse. Great for reporters staring on the health and hospitals beat.
Tags: health care; fraud; abuse; malpractice; hospitals; doctors; department of health; HHS; medicare; medicaid; lawsuits; lawyers
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A Doctor Database
Heisel gives reporters tips on building a doctor database in this valuable handout. This tipsheet contains useful hints and detailed information on what fields you should have in your database to get the most out of your reporting. Heisel also includes story examples.
Tags: doctors; lawyers; malpractice; health board; hospitals; lawsuits; data; databases; data entry; medical board
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Ideas and resources for investigative stories
Joan Claybrook of Public Citizen offers a primer to 7 separate issues that affect the public; medical malpractice, health, electricity deregulation, auto safety, food, global trade, and campaign finance. Medical malpractice, deregulation, auto safety, and campaign finance each have additional information on the subjects in this comprehensive tipsheet.
Tags: medical malpractice; health; doctors; hospitals; prescriptions; enron; deregulation; ford; firestone; tires; lobbying; nonprofit; campaign finance; 527; NAFTA; data; irradiation
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RX for a quick diagnosis: Medical Investigations
This tipsheet explains how to research and identify malpractice among hundreds of doctors and several hospitals.
Tags: malpractice; medical research
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Investigating Medicine
Wilson provides a comprehensive list of web sites with information on the medical field. This combined with court documents and medical journals can provide a reporter with the info they need to break that next big story.
Tags: Medicine; investigations; malpractice