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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/simon-sr-et-al-2006
January 01, 2006 - Abstract
"OBJECTIVES: To examine the effect of replacing drug-specific computerized prescribing alerts … Prior implementation of drug-specific alerts established a downward trend in use of target medications … RESULTS: Age-specific alerts resulted in a continuation of the effects of the drug-specific alerts without … CONCLUSION: Age-specific alerts sustained the effectiveness of drug-specific alerts to reduce potentially … "The transition in January 2003 from drug-specific alerts to patient-specific alerts for the same target
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-allergy-documentation-and-clinical-decision-support-electronic-health/citation/drug
January 01, 2023 - Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms in patients hospitalized with COVID-19: A case … Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms in patients hospitalized with COVID-19: A case
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-allergy-documentation-and-clinical-decision-support-electronic-health/citation/heterogeneity
January 01, 2023 - Heterogeneity of drug allergies and reaction lists in two U.S. health care systems' electronic health … Heterogeneity of drug allergies and reaction lists in two U.S. health care systems' electronic health
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/wolfstadt-ji-et-al-2008
January 01, 2008 - effect of computerized physician order entry with clinical decision support on the rates of adverse drug … injury defined as an adverse drug event (ADE). … Clinical decision support can provide either basic (e.g., drug-allergy checking) or advanced (e.g., drug … decision support, duplicate therapy checking, and drug-drug interaction checking. … checking, and drug-disease contraindication checking."
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/health-it-costs-and-benefits-database/development-computerized-lan
January 01, 1995 - The development of a computerized LAN-based investigational drug information database
Authors … Purpose of Study: Evaluate a computerized LAN-based investigational drug information database. … Intervention: A computerized LAN-based investigational drug information database to facilitate healthcare … professionals' access to investigational drug information. … Description: The computerized LAN-based investigational drug information database used was ÒIRxBaseÓ
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/2006Gurwitz_051711comp.pdf
January 01, 2005 - Effect of Computerized Physician Order Entry with Clinical Decision Support on Adverse Drug Events in … Setting
Effect of Computerized Physician Order
Entry with Clinical Decision Support on
Adverse Drug … Adverse Drug Events
Medication
Errors
ADEs
Preventable
Introduction
Adverse drug events (ADEs … Incidence of ADEs in Two Large
Academic LTC Facilities
• Adverse drug events
– About 10 ADEs per 100 … resident-months
• Preventable adverse drug events
– About 4 preventable ADEs per 100
resident-months
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/virtual-patient-advocate-reduce-ambulatory-adverse-drug-events
January 01, 2023 - Virtual Patient Advocate to Reduce Ambulatory Adverse Drug Events
Project Final Report … Virtual Patient Advocate to Reduce Ambulatory Adverse Drug Events - 2011
Virtual Patient Advocate … to Reduce Ambulatory Adverse Drug Events - 2010
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r01hs015377-schadow-final-report-2008.pdf
January 01, 2008 - between
the Gopher system to drug classes in the VA National Drug File Reference Terminology (NDF- … The drug selection and drug-allergy and drug-interaction
detection queries were implemented in this … conflicts and (preliminary) also drug-drug-interaction events by a
factor of 2 to 4. … We showed this using drug-allergy
checking in a published journal paper, and similarly with drug-interactions … Structured Product Labeling Improves
Detection of Drug-Intolerance Issues.
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digital.ahrq.gov/program-overview/research-stories/virtual-pharmacy-improves-medication-use-and-patient-safety-palliative-care
January 01, 2023 - Improve Health Systems
Including virtual pharmacists in palliative care teams can reduce adverse drug … Avoiding adverse drug interactions that worsen conditions at best—and are lethal at worst: pharmacists … These patients’ physiological changes—due to advanced illness, the natural aging process, and multiple-drug … Being on many medications puts patients at high risk of adverse drug-drug interactions (DDIs), the fifth-leading
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/ross-s-et-al-2005
January 01, 2005 - Ross S et al. 2005 "Effects of electronic prescribing on formulary compliance and generic drug utilization … Effects of electronic prescribing on formulary compliance and generic drug utilization in the ambulatory … drug, and a red frowning face indicates a nonformulary drug." … The system also indicates whether the drug is a generic. … No differences were observed between groups in terms of formulary compliance for these drug classes."
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/prescribing-patterns-of-cost-effective-drugs-quick-reference-guide.pdf
April 01, 2009 - Cost-Effective Drugs
Prescribing Patterns of
CostEffective Drugs
Evaluating the costs of prescription drug … Quality Domain: Efficiency
Current Findings in the Literature: Americans
filled an average of 11.5 drug … prescriptions per
person in 2007 for a total of $202 billion in
medication expenditures.1 As prescription drug … medications to providers at the time of
prescribing, can motivate people to choose less
expensive drug … If you want to look at all
drug expenditures, you may need to adjust for
drug categories to account
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digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/bates-david
January 01, 2023 - Education and Research on Therapeutics
Reduced effectiveness of interruptive drug-drug … Reduced effectiveness of interruptive drug-drug interaction alerts after conversion to a commercial electronic … Information Technology and Improving Medication Use
High-priority and low-priority drug-drug … High-priority and low-priority drug-drug interactions in different international electronic health record … Drug Saf 2017 Nov 9. doi: 10.1007/s40264-017-0615-1. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 29124665.
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/health-it-costs-and-benefits-database/improving-acceptance
May 31, 2021 - Volume: 13 Issue: 1 Pages: 5-11 HIT Description: Clinical decision support system that provides drug … Massachusetts General Hospital (Partners HealthCare System) Intervention: An ambulatory-specific electronic drug … Evaluation Method: electronic collection of data Description: knowledge base containing drug contraindications … (potential duplicate drug class, drug-disease, drug-drug, drug-lab and drug-pregnancy contraindications
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/surveillance_for_adverse_drug_events_in_ambulatory_pediatrics_2010pdf_2.pdf
August 01, 2010 - Surveillance for Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Pediatrics
1 | Surveillance for adverSe drug eventS … in ambulatory PediatricS
2010 Grant Summary
Surveillance for Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Pediatrics … Population: Cancer, Chronic Care*, Cystic Fibrosis, Pediatric*, Sickle Cell Anemia
Summary: Adverse drug … Despite extensive literature on medication safety,
medication errors, and adverse drug events in adult … emergency department) in pediatric patients with specific chronic
2 | Surveillance for adverSe drug
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017010-bailey-final-report-2011.pdf
January 01, 2011 - Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Care. … The criteria for this rule had terms
including “adverse drug event”, “adverse drug reaction”, “adverse … drug effect”, “drug reaction”,
“drug side effects”. … Hospital admissions due to adverse drug
reactions. … Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2001; 10(2):113-119.
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/health-it-costs-and-benefits-database/evaluation-drug-interaction
January 01, 2005 - Evaluation of drug interaction software to identify alerts for transplant medications
Authors … Purpose of Study: evaluate the effectiveness of a common drug interaction software database to identify … an expert panel of 2 physicians and one pharmacist specializing in transplant to identify a list of drug … list of interactions for certain drugs with the interactions identified by the software Description: Drug-Drug … Interaction Module Version 3.2, by First DataBank (a drug interaction database) Quality of Care and
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digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/hartung-daniel
January 01, 2023 - Hartung, Daniel
Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Integration in … Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Integration in the Electronic Health Record – Final Report. … Principal Investigator
Hartung, Daniel
Project Name
Prescription Drug Monitoring Program … Effect of integration of prescription drug monitoring program data in the electronic health record on … Principal Investigator
Hartung, Daniel
Project Name
Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
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digital.ahrq.gov/ndc
January 01, 2023 - Background
The National Drug Codes (NDCs) are standards for reporting drugs and biological products … Medicare, they are now maintained by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and are used for many … clinical information systems and for prescription drug claims processing. … The Drug Listing Act of 1972 requires that all drug-producing establishments report to the FDA all drugs … The product code - identifies the strength, dosage form, and formulation of the particular drug
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/automated-adverse-drug-event-detection-and-intervention/annual-summary/2008
January 01, 2008 - Automated Adverse Drug Event Detection and Intervention - 2008
Project Name
Automated … Adverse Drug Event Detection and Intervention
Principal Investigator
Ferranti, Jeffrey … The scope of drug interventions was narrowed to include only the top three high-risk drug categories: … Characteristics of ambulatory anticoagulant adverse drug events: a descriptive study. … Sharing adverse drug event data using business intelligence technology.
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/health-it-costs-and-benefits-database/characteristics-and-consequences
Characteristics and consequences of drug allergy alert overrides in a computerized physician order entry … Purpose of Study: assess the characteristics of over-rides of a CPOE system that produces alerts for drug … patient safety Summary: Settings: Brigham and Women's Hospital inpatients Intervention: CPOE with drug … an alert was triggered. 320 patients were evaluated in more detail, revealing 19 possible adverse drug … events (ADE) related to the alerted drug.