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1. Benzodiazepines | CDS Connect
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   November 02, 2018 - Search All AHRQ Sites Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Email Updates

2. Recommendation #11: Concurrent Use of Opioids and Benzodiazepines | CDS Connect
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   September 27, 2018 - Search All AHRQ Sites Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Email Updates

3. Outpatient Benzodiazepine Prescribing, Adverse Events, and Costs (pdf file)
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   April 27, 2004 - Outpatient Benzodiazepine Prescribing, Adverse Events, and Costs 185 Outpatient Benzodiazepine Prescribing … Benzodiazepine Prescribing and Adverse Events 193 Table 5. … Association of road-traffic accidents with benzodiazepine use. … Benzodiazepine tranquilizers and the risk of accidental injury. … Benzodiazepines and injury: a risk adjusted model.

4. Association between concurrent use of prescription opioids and benzodiazepines and overdose: retrospective analysis. | PSNet
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   March 07, 2018 - Study Association between concurrent use of prescription opioids and benzodiazepines … Association between concurrent use of prescription opioids and benzodiazepines and overdose: retrospective … Concurrent use of opioids and benzodiazepines increases risk for adverse drug events . … Association between concurrent use of prescription opioids and benzodiazepines and overdose: retrospective … An electronic intervention to improve safety for pain patients co-prescribed chronic opioids and benzodiazepines

5. Patterns in outpatient benzodiazepine prescribing in the United States. | PSNet
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   June 23, 2010 - Study Patterns in outpatient benzodiazepine prescribing in the United States. … Patterns in Outpatient Benzodiazepine Prescribing in the United States. … This observational study based on surveillance data documents increasing rates of benzodiazepine prescribing … The rate of coprescription of benzodiazepines with opioids and other sedating medications has also … Patterns in Outpatient Benzodiazepine Prescribing in the United States.

6. Prescription Rates of Dental Benzodiazepines Higher in the United States Than Other Countries | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   May 01, 2021 - Prescription Rates of Dental Benzodiazepines Higher in the United States Than Other Countries Issue … study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that dental benzodiazepine prescriptions … Dentists may use benzodiazepines to manage patient anxiety before a procedure. … Benzodiazepine prescribing is often associated with polydrug abuse and can lead to significant substance … This study was the first to offer an international comparison of benzodiazepine prescriptions.

7. Effect of pharmacist email alerts on concurrent prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines by prescribers and primary care managers: a randomized clinical trial. | PSNet
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   September 07, 2022 - Study Effect of pharmacist email alerts on concurrent prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines … Effect of pharmacist email alerts on concurrent prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines by prescribers … Concurrent prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines can put patients at increased risk of overdose … Effect of pharmacist email alerts on concurrent prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines by prescribers … 2021 Balancing safety, comfort, and fall risk: an intervention to limit opioid and benzodiazepine

8. Appendix B22: Suggestions for Further Assessment and/or Interventions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   December 01, 2017 - for Further Assessment and/or Interventions Medications Antipsychotics Antidepressants Benzodiazepines … Parkinson's disease Dementias and delirium Dizziness Depression Drugs Antipsychotics Antidepressants Benzodiazepines

9. Benzodiazepine-opioid co-prescribing in a national probability sample of ED encounters. | Digital Healthcare Research
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   January 01, 2022 - Benzodiazepine-opioid co-prescribing in a national probability sample of ED encounters. … Benzodiazepine-opioid co-prescribing in a national probability sample of ED encounters.

10. SRDR - Systematic Review Data Repository |
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    January 01, 2010 - Cancel Study Preview Study Title and Description Is there a role for benzodiazepines … 0 ) | Post/View Title Data Title Is there a role for benzodiazepines

11. An electronic intervention to improve safety for pain patients co-prescribed chronic opioids and benzodiazepines. | PSNet
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    May 11, 2011 - An electronic intervention to improve safety for pain patients co-prescribed chronic opioids and benzodiazepines … An electronic intervention to improve safety for pain patients co-prescribed chronic opioids and benzodiazepines … This study describes an electronic intervention to identify patients coprescribed opioids and benzodiazepines … The intervention significantly reduced the proportion of patients coprescribed opioids and benzodiazepines … February 28, 2018 Electronic medical record alert associated with reduced opioid and benzodiazepine

12. Microsoft PowerPoint - FINAL Spotlight Case_A Complicated Course-Severe Alcohol Withdrawal - SLIDES.pptx (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2023 - • He was treated with symptom-triggered dosing of benzodiazepines utilizing the CIWA protocol and … • Benzodiazepines (BZDs) are the mainstay of therapy in AWS and are the only class of medication with … • ASAM recommends use of dexmedetomidine as an adjunct to benzodiazepine therapy to control autonomic … continuous infusions of short-acting BZDs versus dexmedetomidine.13 – The dexmedetomidine group showed a benzodiazepine … This effect may worsen progression of AWS, if benzodiazepines are not adequately administered.

13. Microsoft PowerPoint - Updated Handouts - Read-Only (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2018 - PowerPoint - Updated Handouts - Read-Only REDUCING MEDICATIONS SAFELY TO MEET LIFE’S CHANGES FOCUS ON BENZODIAZEPINE … RECEPTOR AGONISTS (BZRAs)FOCUS ON BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR AGONISTS & Z-DRUGS (BZRAs) As life changes … Evidence-based clinical practice guideline for deprescribing benzodiazepine receptor agonists. … Adapted from “Reducing Medications Safely to Meet Life’s Changes, Focus on Benzodiazepine Receptor Agonists

14. Pilot Site Training For Pain Management Summary Cds For Repository (pdf file)
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    May 24, 2023 - preferred – ≥90 MME/day is high risk § Urine drug screening (prior to and annually) § Avoid concurrent benzodiazepines … Assessments § MME amount - most recent § Urine drug screen results – all within the past 1 year § Benzodiazepine … ” § Benzodiazepine Medications – Elements: Benzodiazepine medication statements and orders. – Flag … if there is at least one benzodiazepine medication and at least one opioid medication: “Benzodiazepine … ” – Flag if there is at least one benzodiazepine medication: “Evidence of a benzodiazepine medication

15. Evidence Summary: Anxiety Disorders in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    June 20, 2023 - Case-control studies found an association between benzodiazepine use and suicide death 85 and spontaneous … One included study found an association between use of benzodiazepine for treatment of anxiety and higher … US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning: …even when taken at recommended dosages, [benzodiazepine … Benzodiazepines versus placebo for panic disorder in adults. … FDA requiring Boxed Warning updated to improve safe use of benzodiazepine drug class: includes potential

16. Medication Safety Events Related to Diagnostic Imaging | PSNet
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    January 26, 2022 - Patient Safety Opioids and benzodiazepines are commonly used medications in the acute care setting … In the United States, over half of hospitalized patients receive opioids and 48% receive benzodiazepines … . 2,3 Opioids and benzodiazepines can be beneficial; however, their respiratory depressant effects are … Concurrent opioid and benzodiazepine use is associated with a two-fold increase in all-cause mortality … Benzodiazepine pharmacology and central nervous system-mediated effects. 

17. Simon SR et al. 2006 "Computerized prescribing alerts and group academic detailing to reduce the use of potentially inappropriate medications in older people." | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2006 - targeted potentially inappropriate medication (e.g., tertiary tricyclic amine antidepressants, long-acting benzodiazepines … "From November 2000 through December 2002, the EHR employed drug-specific alerts for long-acting benzodiazepines … Clinician ordered one of the target medications [tertiary tricyclic amine antidepressants, long-acting benzodiazepines

18. AHRQ PCOR CDS Project Kickoff (pdf file)
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    September 21, 2018 - preferred – ≥90 MME/day is high risk ▪ Urine drug screening (prior to and annually) ▪ Avoid concurrent benzodiazepines … – Stool softeners and laxatives Risk Considerations – MME amount – Urine drug screen results – Benzodiazepine … ” ▪ Benzodiazepine Medications – Elements: Benzodiazepine medication statements and orders. … – Flag if there is at least one benzodiazepine medication and at least one opioid medication: “Benzodiazepine … ” – Flag if there is at least one benzodiazepine medication: “Evidence of a benzodiazepine medication

19. A Complicated Course: Severe Alcohol Withdrawal with Dexmedetomidine Infusion. | PSNet
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    June 14, 2023 - Benzodiazepines (BZDs) are the mainstay of therapy in AWS and are the only class of medication with … ASAM recommends use of dexmedetomidine as an adjunct to benzodiazepine therapy to control autonomic hyperactivity … and anxiety when these symptoms are not well controlled by optimized dosing of benzodiazepines alone … continuous infusions of short-acting BZDs versus dexmedetomidine. 13 The dexmedetomidine group showed a benzodiazepine … This effect may worsen progression of AWS, if benzodiazepines are not adequately administered.

20. S116 (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2007 - However, we did find that the IV was associated with the use of long-acting benzodiazepines. … Long- acting benzodiazepines are not recommended for use in the elderly as they have been associated … of which 530 (18.6%) were for a long-acting benzodiazepine. … This is likely to be a result of long-acting benzodiazepines being indicated for certain psychiatric … Benzodiazepines of long and short elimination half-life and the risk of hip fracture.