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:
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Health Analyses for Any Newsroom
Journalists have a duty to report on the hospitals, nursing homes, doctors, and clinics that provide medical treatment to their viewers, readers, and listeners. Learn tricks of the health reporting trade in this tip sheet.
Tags: Health
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One big-ass(arse) database – and other medical issues
"Health databases can unlock important clues about matters of life and death in your community. From identifying unsafe hospitals to detecting questionable treatments used by doctors and their escalating costs, you can write important stories that have an immediate impact and lead to lasting change."
Tags: health care; databases
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Investigating Hospital Safety
Marshall gives insights into covering hospital safety - from developing sources; paying attention to story tips; covering hospital regulation;
Tags: hospitals; health care; medical care; physicians; doctors; nurses; insurance; pharmaceuticals; drugs; licensing
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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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Resources for health topics
Richards highlights data on health topics including mortality, prescription drugs and hospital performance.
Tags: Centers for Disease Control; mortality; National Bureau of Economic Research; National Center for Health Statistics (CDC); international classification of diseases; coroner; medical examiner; autopsy report; Drug Enforcement Agency; controlled substance task force; ARCOS; Automation of reports and Consolidated Orders System; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services; HCUPnet
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Credit and Debt Investiagations
This tipsheet details important information when covering credit and debt investigations. Included topics: bankruptcy; medical debt; microfinance.
Tags: credit; debt; business; microfinance; bankruptcy; medical debt; medical bankruptcy;
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Health Care Survival Guide: Investigating America's Hospitals
Berens tipsheet addresses how to cover the health & science beat. He begins by stressing the 3 F's: "follow the paper; find the expert; and ferret out the research." Berens gives a list of basic public records pertinent to the beat; available databases; and "real world advice" based on his own experience covering health and science.
Tags: health; science; FOIA; medical research; medicine; hospitals; adverse event reporting; MAUDE; Manufacterer and User Facility Device Experience; Excluded Individuals Database
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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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Oral Health Tipsheets
Eyre lists web resources for covering issues of oral health. Included are sources used for expert insight.
Tags: oral health; CDC; National Oral Health Surveillance System: Medicaid Dental contacts; Medicaid's Early Periodic Screening tables; Oral Health America; Children's Dental Health Project
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Backgrounding People
This tipsheet provides a list of resources to use when backgrounding individuals. Lyle's is careful to denote which resources are free vs. for a fee. Her list is broken down to include national resources (for the U.S.) and regional resources specific to New York state. She also gives phone service information for several international countries.
Tags: background; phone records; public records; business records; property records; New York; professional licenses; aviation administration; medical license; biographies; WhoIs; social networking; international phone records