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 "medical board" ...
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Exposing Dangerous Caregivers
Kauffman's tipsheet decribes how to use unemployment-benefit claims to track caregiver misconduct; using federal labor records to track caregivers also acting as employers; and quick hit stories that can be done with this information.
Tags: misconduct; medical professionals; unlicensed doctors; physicians; hospitals; licensing boards; HIPPA
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Quick Hit Science and Health Ideas
Fallik gives 10 quick hit ideas for science and health care stories. Each idea can yield a quick and impressive story, with the potential of a more involved, deeper story.
Tags: health; science; patents; medical boards; adverse event databases; inspections; 990s
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Investigating the Medical World/Big Pharma's Shameful Secret: Criminal Trials
David Evans offers a number of clarifications of confusing medical terms and issues, along with other helpful hints that can aid reporters who are investigating the medical world and/or pharmaceutical industry. He gives information on institutional review boards, informed consent, among others, and also provides a list of helpful Web sites. En espanol: #2907.
Tags: Big Pharma; Medicine; Hospitals; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health care
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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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Peeking Behind the White Curtain
Dolan lists and explains a number of Web sites and databases valuable to reporters covering health care or the health beat
Tags: health care; health; medical boards; physician; medical license; civil court; databases; data; Adverse Event Reports; public records; investigative reporting
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Investigating Doctors
Heisel lists four places where reporters should go to investigate doctors. They are: medical boards, court records, medical specialty boards and medical research journals. For each resource, Heisel tells the reporter how he or she can go about getting the information and what data he or she should expect to find at each place. He also discusses how The Orange County Register built its own database of local doctors' records.
Tags: medical; hospital; database; insurance; "Doctor Watch"; physicians; M.D.s; patients; surgery; CAR
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Internet sites on health care fraud and abuse
Shulte provides a list of websites and explains why the sites would be helpful to journalists covering the health beat. He includes Web addresses to the US Department of Health and Human Services, the US General Accounting Office, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and many more.
Tags: Hospitals; Medical Boards; Medicare; Medicaid
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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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Investigating Health Care Professionals through the National PRactitioner Data Bank
If using the NPDP, you'll need Dolan's tipsheet. "The National Practitioner Data Bank, a federal repository for adverse actions taken against health care professiona,s is maintained by the Divsiion of Qualty Assurance of teh Deptartment of Health and Human Services. IT contains more than 260,000 reporters agains 164,000 practitioners since 1990."
Tags: doctors; malpractice; civil court records; medical cases; controlled substances; medical boards; Drug Enforcement Agency; DEA; licensing; CAR