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 "mortality" ...
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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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Ritalin Hot Spots; DEA & Ritalin///CDC and Mortality and Census Data
Marchak of The Plain Dealer offers tips how to deal with the Drug Enforcement Administration, and how to access and analyze the agency's data.
Tags: CAR; FOIA; pharmacies; Centers for Disease Control; doctors
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Deja's View: In a Poor Baby's Fight to Survive, a Parable of a Medicaid HMO, Beyond the Statistics, A Druggist Confronts the Reality of Robbery
Wall Street Journal editor Ken Wells distributed these stories which show excellent reporting matched with equally excellent writing.
Tags: writing; HMO; infant mortality; workplace murders
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A Deadly Difference: America's Racial Health Divide
Death records can yield all sorts of trends in mortality, such as which is the "deadliest" county, the most common cause of death, high-risk areas, disparities and others. The Cleveland team married the federal mortality data ("Wonder") with different records sets.
Tags: CAR; mortality; wonder; ICD-9; homicides; race; disease
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A Deadly Difference: America's Racial Health Divide
This tipsheet lists ideas and information to look for when looking into mortality data.
Tags: health; health care; mortality rate; race
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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.
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Tipsheet No: 68
Sample copy of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Document is available from NIOSH at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
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