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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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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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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Tipsheet No: 682
Fessenden's handout is an eight-page Newsday series on hospitals. He looks at total admissions, mortality rates after common surgery, number of employees per patient and several other statistics to assess the quality of hospitals on Long Island and in Queens. No audio tape available.