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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

  By Alex Richards

  2010

• Investigating Public Health

  Tips on asses performance, tracking the money and examining the perks of health care.

  Tags: health; medical; doctors; hospitals

  By Alison Young

  2007

• CAR after the disaster: FEMA, SBA and other data

  This tipsheet is a good guide to investigating the government aid that generally follows large natural disasters. Specifically, Maines discusses his own experience investigating FEMA after Hurricane Katrina. He recommends various websites as a good starting point, and then offers advice for more detailed investigations. For example, Maines suggests comparing the FEMA database of funeral-related expenses to the number of deaths listed by the local medical examiner.

  Tags: government aid; federal government; relief efforts; humanitarian aid; FEMA; computer assisted reporting; hurricanes

  By John Maines

  2006

• CAR and COPS

  Olsen lists some documents and databases to look into issues relating to law enforcement. These include such documents as police shootings indices, racial profiling data, staffing and jail data and so on.

  Tags: CAR; police; internal affairs; medical examiner; uniform crime reporting; UCR; sex offenders.

  By Lise Olsen

  2005

• Examining Long-Term Care with CAR

  This tipsheet is a very comprehensive guide to reporting on nursing homes. It covers how to acquire and interpret everything from state inspection data to medical examiner data and worker safety data. Reporting on nursing homes is a great way to practice your CAR skills, and this tipsheet covers just about every story you can do on the topic.

  Tags: nursing homes; retirement; nurses; patient abuse; bed sores; Medicare data; death certificates; consumer complaints

  By Rick Linsk

  2005

• Examining the Pharmaceutical Industry

  Tipsheet explains how this reporter investigated the Danish pharmaceutical industry. Landsted focused on the drug Deanxit. Tipsheet includes a the author's methodology for writing the story.

  Tags: pharmaceuticals; prescription drugs; Deanxit; medicine; medical industry; drugs; Danish

  By Anne Lea Landsted

  2003

• An Investigative Examination of Bayers Legal Drug

  Tipsheet talks about Lutgert's investigation about "the deadly cholesterol-lowering drug Lipobay or Baycol, produced by the world-renowned German pharmaceutical manufacturer Bayer." According to Lutgert, "In August 2001, Bayer voluntarily withdrew Lipobay from the market after scores of deaths worldwide were associated with the drug (sold under the name Baycol in the U.S.)."

  Tags: Bayer; Baycol; Lipobay; cholesterol; drug; medicine; medical problems; deaths from medicine

  By Christoph Lutgert

  2003

• Deaths, Dying, and Full Disclosure

  "State laws can be designed to thwart inquires about suspicious deaths in vulnerable populations," this tipsheet begins. "Hints that something is amiss in your state can be found on paperwork as seemingly routine as a police accident report." Bennish lists a number of events surrounding a death or injury that journalists should look out for, and other factors that send up a flare regarding a possible story. This tipsheet provides a list of resources on where to find records on suspicious deaths, including "funeral homes, nursing homes inspection reports, death certificates, computerized state vital statistics compilations of deaths, state compilations of addresses of institutions and homes, medical examiners, coroners reporters and autopsies, police and news reports."

  Tags: nursing homes; deaths; suspicious deaths; accidents; fatalities; wrongful death; assisted living; major unusual incident reports; aging; mental retardation; mental illness

  By Steve Bennish

  2003

• 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

  By Valeri C. Williams

  2002

• Examining Your Local Health System

  This tipsheet explains how to research medical information and what public records are available. A copy of two death certificates and a medical examiner's report is included.

  Tags: Health; death certificate; medical records

  By Tracy Correa

  2002