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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impact-electronic-prescribing-hospital-setting-process-focused-evaluation
April 29, 2020 - resulted in improved adherence to safe medication ordering practices and resulted in patients receiving antibiotics
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/what-do-hospital-staff-uk-think-are-causes-penicillin-medication-errors
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/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/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/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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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/node/49843/psn-pdf
October 01, 2018 - blood pressure was low (80/50 mm Hg), and he
was started on intravenous fluids and broad spectrum antibiotics … For example,
a retrospective study of patients with septic shock found that each hour of delay in antibiotic … that clinicians
do not anchor the diagnosis solely on sepsis even while treating empirically with antibiotics … When patients present with circulatory shock or signs of end-organ dysfunction, empiric antibiotics … Using procalcitonin to guide antibiotic therapy. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2017;4:ofw249.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/rapid-mis-strep
February 01, 2004 - still 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 or … 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/node/45957/psn-pdf
August 15, 2018 - There was no
difference in the rate of follow-up imaging, length of stay, or duration of antibiotics
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39837/psn-pdf
September 15, 2010 - In addition to OR team function,
adherence to guidelines for prophylactic antibiotics improved, and
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/42577/psn-pdf
December 31, 2014 - errors of omission occurred most frequently for medications that were prescribed episodically (i.e.,
antibiotics
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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/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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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/relationship-between-systems-level-factors-and-hand-hygiene-adherence
September 28, 2011 - May 3, 2018
Receipt of antibiotics in hospitalized patients and risk for Clostridium … View More
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Lessons learned from a national hospital antibiotic
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September 29, 2017 - Resources From the Same Author(s)
Effect of behavioral interventions on inappropriate antibiotic … September 29, 2017
Time of day and the decision to prescribe antibiotics.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/shake-well
September 01, 2006 - doses.[ 5 ]) Some injectables require reconstitution, which the nurse would do for products such as antibiotics … There have been cases where patients did not receive a complete dose due to insufficient shaking of antibiotics … Improperly mixed IV antibiotics. Hosp Pharm. 1997;32:1462-1465. 7. El-Sabawy M, Threlkeld M.
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December 19, 2011 - Association of diagnostic stewardship for blood cultures in critically ill children with culture rates, antibiotic … December 5, 2007
WebM&M Cases
Delay in Initiating Antibiotics
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August 04, 2021 - August 4, 2021
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use. … May 25, 2022
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-19 Pandemic
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47792/psn-pdf
May 01, 2019 - psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/new-evidence-stemming-low-value-prescribing
Overprescribing contributes to polypharmacy, antibiotic … opioid-prescribing-after-nonfatal-overdose-and-association-repeated-overdose-cohort-study
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effect-behavioral-interventions-inappropriate-antibiotic-prescribing-among-primary-care
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January 01, 2009 - The wound was debrided, and the patient received antibiotic therapy. … On the 10th day of antibiotics, she went to the outpatient oncology center for high-dose methotrexate … over-the-counter medications, such as nonsteroidal
antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), as well as prescription antibiotics … in both the inpatient and outpatient settings, along with clinical decision support
to guide safe antibiotic