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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/patient-safety-primary-care
January 31, 2020 - These predominantly relate to inconsistent practices driving the prescribing of opioids and antibiotics … that have contributed to the opioid epidemic and the rise of antibiotic resistant infections. [4 … Interventions to reduce inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics for acute respiratory tract infections … Antimicrobial resistance: risk associated with antibiotic overuse and initiatives to reduce the problem … Safety Culture in EMS
May 26, 2021
Perspective
Antibiotic
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/evaluation-and-accurate-diagnoses-pediatric-diseases-using-artificial-intelligence
April 15, 2020 - August 21, 2024
Association of a Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use with antibiotic … October 11, 2017
Assessment of changes in visits and antibiotic prescribing during the … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use and the COVID
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/see-patient-first
September 27, 2023 - Given his clinical stability and negative cultures, antibiotics were not escalated. … cultures are low in yield 6 and a false positive can often lead to more blood cultures, unnecessary antibiotics … assessment may lead not only to frequent unnecessary tests but also to administering inappropriate antibiotics … October 1, 2009
WebM&M Cases
Antibiotics for URI
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impact-electronic-prescribing-hospital-setting-process-focused-evaluation
August 04, 2021 - resulted in improved adherence to safe medication ordering practices and resulted in patients receiving antibiotics
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November 16, 2022 - medications, more than 90% of physicians felt that some of their colleagues lacked knowledge on which antibiotics
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/development-patient-safety-measures-identify-inappropriate-diagnosis-common-infections
April 10, 2024 - Misdiagnosis of infections can lead to overuse of antibiotics and threaten patient safety.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/200-epidural-blunders-admitted-after-three-women-die
March 18, 2020 - January 23, 2019
Mix-ups between epidural analgesia and IV antibiotics in labor and delivery
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/variation-quality-urgent-health-care-provided-during-commercial-virtual-visits
November 02, 2016 - Virtual visit physicians frequently prescribed antibiotics inappropriately , though this is also true … November 2, 2016
Prevalence of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions among US ambulatory
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/efficacy-medical-team-training-improved-team-performance-and-decreased-operating-room-delays
October 06, 2016 - In addition to OR team function, adherence to guidelines for prophylactic antibiotics improved, and surveys … Association of diagnostic stewardship for blood cultures in critically ill children with culture rates, antibiotic
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/intervening-interruptions-what-exactly-risk-we-are-trying-manage
July 20, 2022 - Related Resources From the Same Author(s)
Assessment of changes in visits and antibiotic … prescribing during the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic … July 20, 2022
Association of a Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use with antibiotic
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medical-malpractice-litigation-and-daylight-saving-time
March 24, 2019 - March 24, 2019
Association of a Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use with antibiotic … October 11, 2017
Assessment of changes in visits and antibiotic prescribing during the … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use and the COVID
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/866579/psn-pdf
August 28, 2024 - ED physicians diagnosed an infection, prescribed antibiotics, and told the patient to
schedule an appointment … technique,8,9 where the surgery is performed,10–12 or whether or not
patients receive perioperative antibiotics … distinguished from deep
infections, as the former can usually be treated with suture removal and oral antibiotics … Rate of infection after carpal tunnel release surgery and
effect of antibiotic prophylaxis. … Perioperative antibiotics for carpal tunnel surgery.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/analysis-variation-between-diagnosis-admission-vs-discharge-and-clinical-outcomes-among
June 22, 2022 - Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing can result in patient harm and costly antibiotic-resistant infections … worse short-term clinical outcomes but was associated with potentially inappropriate broad-spectrum antibiotic … November 2, 2022
Association of inappropriate outpatient pediatric antibiotic prescriptions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/periodic-issue/periodic-issue-342
May 16, 2022 - Association of diagnostic stewardship for blood cultures in critically ill children with culture rates, antibiotic … Stewardship interventions seek to optimize use of healthcare services, such as diagnostic tests or antibiotics … Researchers found that rates of blood cultures, broad-spectrum antibiotic use, and central line-associated … Stewardship interventions seek to optimize use of healthcare services, such as diagnostic tests or antibiotics … Researchers found that rates of blood cultures, broad-spectrum antibiotic use, and central line-associated
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/opioid-prescribing-decreases-after-learning-patients-fatal-overdose
January 18, 2023 - January 18, 2023
Effect of behavioral interventions on inappropriate antibiotic prescribing … September 23, 2020
Time of day and the decision to prescribe antibiotics.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/40800/psn-pdf
December 09, 2014 - i-wish-i-had-seen-test-result-earlier-dissatisfaction-test-result-management-systems-primary
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/diagnostic-errors
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/antibiotics-urisinusitis-simple-decision-gone-bad
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33741/psn-pdf
November 01, 2012 - alternative diagnoses
such as eczema or lymphedema, thus avoiding unnecessary hospitalization and antibiotics … pneumonia, decisions to discharge the patient, based just on vital
signs, shorten duration of intravenous antibiotics … Effectiveness of early switch from intravenous to oral
antibiotics in severe community acquired pneumonia
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49530/psn-pdf
February 01, 2007 - bring their children with a sore throat to the clinician for a throat swab and are often given an
antibiotic … As patients usually improve symptomatically even without antibiotic therapy, the goal of antibiotic therapy … Recent support by some for
short-course antibiotic therapy (fewer than 10 full days of a penicillin … At
the present time, a full 10-day course of most antibiotics is recommended in most authoritative guidelines … A positive RADT should result in antibiotic therapy for patients with
consistent signs and symptoms.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medication-related-malpractice-risks-2016-crico-strategies-national-cbs-report
July 18, 2018 - providers or hospital-based nurses, and drugs commonly involved included analgesics, anticoagulants, and antibiotics
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June 28, 2023 - September 16, 2020
Two pandemics, same story: the potentially dangerous overuse of antibiotics