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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

  By Marshall Allen

  2010

• Health Care on the Beat: Investigating Doctors and Drugs

  Wilson's tipsheet covers the health care beat - from doctors to drugs. The tipsheet contains information on the approach to your coverage and many useful links.

  Tags: pharmaceuticals; drugs; medicine; health care; doctors; physicians

  By Duff Wilson

  2010

• 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

  By Clark Kauffman

  2010

• 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

  By Jack Dolan

  2004

• 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

  By William Heisel

  2004

• Doctors on Drugs and Other Physician Problems

  This tipsheet provides tips for reporting on doctors. Paul D'Ambrosio of the Asbury Park Press explains that reporting on physicians can be extremely difficult because of the "white wall of silence" -- doctors protect their own, thus breaking stories is difficult.

  Tags: medicial community.

  By Paul D'Ambrosio

  2002

• Investigating Health Care Professionals through the National Practitioner Data Bank

  Jack Dolan provides tips on the National Practitioner Data Bank to research reports against practitioners, including dentists, nurses and physician's assistants.

  Tags: National Practitioner Data Bank; health care; doctors; licenses; public files; state medical boards; Drug Enforcement Agency

  By Jack Dolan

  2001

• 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

  By Charles Davis

  2001

• Story ideas and tips for covering HMOs and hospitals

  This tipsheet is a list of health care story ideas, including Medicare drugs, physician representation, hospital translators and accreditation, and sources.

  Tags: None

  By Kathleen L'Ecluse

  1999

• The BOMEX files: A comprehensive analysis of Arizona's MDs

  Using an analysis of the agency's computer database, obtained under the state's public records law, New Times found that the physician-dominated board rarely disciplined its own, accumulated a backlog of nearly 1,000 complaints and took years to deal with complaints against incompetent and dangerous physicians. This tipsheet provides advice on how to conduct a similar investigation.

  Tags: CAR

  By Chris Farnsworth

  1999