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141. Screening in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Reduced Staph Infection Rate by 43 Percent | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/640.html
     November 01, 2018 - Pharmacists Use Phone Surveys To Detect Adverse Drug Events . … Pharmacists Use Phone Surveys To Detect Adverse Drug Events Adverse drug events that patients otherwise … , AHRQ-supported researchers used automated phone calls to monitor 776 patients at risk for adverse drug … An automated telephone system called patients one month after they were given a new prescription drug … Drug Alcohol Depend 2017 May 1;174:201-8. Epub 2017 Mar 10. Access the abstract on PubMed®.

142. Final Progress Report: Oral Chemotherapy Safety in Ambulatory Oncology: A Proactive Risk Assessment (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/weingart-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Key vulnerabilities include patient education about drug handling and adverse effects; safe prescription … Key Words: failure modes and effects analysis, oral medication, antineoplastic drug, medication error … searching summaries and analyses of sentinel events reported by organizations such as the Food and Drug … We planned to categorize reports by drug, disease, type and severity of injury, and error type. … The scope of each FMEA varied slightly due to the customary use of each drug in clinical practice.

143. AHRQ Research Influences Colorado Tobacco Policy Decisions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Health Care (EHC) Program research report, "Developing Evidence-Based Research Priorities for Off-Label Drug … In July 2010, Colorado Medicaid also changed its tobacco cessation drug benefit policy from a once per … Zerzan notes that the information was useful in convincing policymakers that, even though this drug benefit … The EHC report, "Developing Evidence-Based Research Priorities for Off-Label Drug Use" was also influential … scientific resource [in AHRQ] that helped us justify our need to focus on anticonvulsant medications as a drug

144. Preparing for Ambulatory Computerized Prescriber Order Entry by Evaluating Preimplementation Medication Errors (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Devine.pdf
     July 01, 2003 - or drug class Error characteristics—underlying cause of error Drug name confusion Lack of … standardization of prescription processing rules Lack of knowledge of drug or lack of drug information … The interpretation of clinical errors due to drug-disease interactions and drug-drug interactions was … In hindsight, creating a list of the 50 most clinically significant drug-drug interactions was certainly … The medication regimen of each patient was reviewed in a comprehensive fashion, evaluating drug-drug

145. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2015 - 2013 Appendix References (organized by type of HAC or topic addressed) Adverse Drug … Incidence of adverse drug events and potential adverse drug events. Implications for prevention. … Medication safety program reduces adverse drug events in a community hospital. … Adverse drug events in hospitalized patients. … Adverse drug events in U.S. hospitals, 2004. HCUP Statistical Brief #29.

146. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2014 - Patient Safety Result in 1.3 Million Fewer Patient Harms Appendix References Adverse Drug … Incidence of adverse drug events and potential adverse drug events. Implications for prevention. … Adverse drug events in hospitalized patients. … Medication safety program reduces adverse drug events in a community hospital. … Adverse drug events in U.S. hospitals, 2004. HCUP Statistical Brief #29.

147. Analysis Concludes Medicare Drug Plans Should Eliminate Barriers to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2019 - Analysis Concludes Medicare Drug Plans Should Eliminate Barriers to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment … Day All-Cause Hospital Readmissions, 2010-2016. ) Today's Headlines: Analysis Concludes Medicare Drug … Analysis Concludes Medicare Drug Plans Should Eliminate Barriers to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Eliminating … AHRQ-funded researchers who analyzed drug formularies found that Part D coverage for buprenorphine was

148. Translating Patient Safety Research into Clinical Practice (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2004 - Relationship between medication errors and adverse drug events. … Computer adverse drug event (ADE) detection and alerts. … Drug-related morbidity and mortality. A cost-of-illness model. … Top-priority actions for preventing adverse drug events in hospitals. … The clinical pharmacist’s role in preventing adverse drug events.

149. Final Progress Report: Dissemination of the PPRNet Model for Improving Medication Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/wessell-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - practice performance in five categories of MS: avoiding potentially inappropriate therapy, dosages, drug-drug … interactions, drug-disease interactions, and monitoring of potential adverse events. … Two drug-drug interaction indicators (ACE inhibitors or ARBs with potassium-sparing diuretics in elderly … elderly • Digoxin in the elderly with CHF • H2 blockers based on renal function Avoiding Potential Drug-Drug … and monitoring of potential adverse drug events.

150. Final Progress Report: Show Your Work: Do Prescription Annotations Impact Near-miss Medication Errors? (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/final-reports/16261-Johnson-draft-1.pdf
     June 01, 2007 - generating correct doses of prescriptions and medications; improving physician recognition of potential drug-drug … , drug- allergy, drug-food, or drug-indication reactions or contraindications; and improving compliance … FDB supports drug-allergy, drug-drug, drug-food, and drug-indication warnings as well as guidelines … Error-related callbacks Patient Instructions Contrary to Rx 15 2.98% Directions 55 10.91% Dosing 14 2.77% Drug-Drug … National Association of Chain Drug Stores; 1999. 18.

151. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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     May 01, 2014 - * Quality Improvement for Antibiotic Prescribing Problems with taking antibiotics Drug resistance … vomiting, diarrhea Secondary infections: C difficile, yeast Allergic reactions: rash, anaphylaxis Drug … In developing countries, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in an ever-increasing challenge. … The price of innovation: new estimates of drug development costs.  … Yet if antibiotic resistance does develop, it will limit the effective lifespan of the drug.

152. Medication Management (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2015 - Therapeutic Drug Use. [updated 2016 July 6; cited 2016 Aug 1]. … Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/drug-use-therapeutic.htm 2. … Adverse drug events in U.S. adult ambulatory medical care. … http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/drug-use-therapeutic.htm http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/drug-use-therapeutic.htm … http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/drug-use-therapeutic.htm http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/drug-use-therapeutic.htm

153. EvidenceNow: ABCS Fact Sheets (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/abcs-charts.pdf
     December 16, 2015 - (Level of Evidence: A) • For patients receiving a bare-metal stent or drug-eluting stent during PCI … Therapy No antihypertensive drug indicated. … Drug(s) for compelling indications‡ Drug(s) for compelling indications‡. … Drug(s) for compelling indications‡. … Potential for adverse effects and drug-drug interactions 3. Heart-healthy lifestyle 4.

154. Final Progress Report: Improving Transplant Med Safety through a Pharmacist-Led, mHealth-Based Program (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/taber-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Purpose Primary Aim • Determine the incidence, severity, and etiologies of med errors and adverse drug … Although contemporary immunosuppression is extremely effective at preventing rejection, adverse drug … Therefore, early recognition of adverse drug events in kidney transplant recipients will likely help … prescribed drug that the participant was not taking. … Ther Drug Monit. 2021 Jun 1;43(3):401-407. doi: 10.1097/FTD.0000000000000863.

155. Final Progress Report: Epidemiology, Exploration, and Evaluation: Addressing potentially dangerous medications in children on Medicaid with a mental health diagnosis (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/kleinman-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - for each year to identify the risk of Drug-Drug Interactions (DDIs) within the BMHRx members. … BMH NDC codes were rolled up to the generic drug name. … Off-Label Drug Use Study: Off-label drug use was studied each year within members with BMHRx. … (1.43, 1.48) All Cause 1.71* (1.69, 1.73) 0.92 (0.80, 1.07) 1.84* (1.80, 1.88) 2.24* (2.20, 2.28) Drug-Drug … Contraindicated drug-drug pairs are not common but occur with regularity.

156. Final Progress Report: Oral Chemotherapy Safety in Ambulatory Oncology: A Proactive Risk Assessment (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/final-reports/17123-Weingart-draft-1.pdf
     January 01, 2022 - Key vulnerabilities include patient education about drug handling and adverse effects; safe prescription … Key Words: failure modes and effects analysis, oral medication, antineoplastic drug, medication error … searching summaries and analyses of sentinel events reported by organizations such as the Food and Drug … We planned to categorize reports by drug, disease, type and severity of injury, and error type. … The scope of each FMEA varied slightly due to the customary use of each drug in clinical practice.

157. Weighted Frequency tables: PUF Medicare Pharmacy (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/SyH-DR-PUF-Summary-Statistics-Medicare-Pharmacy.pdf
     April 01, 2021 - April 1, 2021 13 Weighted Frequency tables: PUF Medicare Pharmacy The FREQ Procedure Generic Drug … April 1, 2021 14 Weighted Frequency tables: PUF Medicare Pharmacy The FREQ Procedure Generic Drug … April 1, 2021 15 Weighted Frequency tables: PUF Medicare Pharmacy The FREQ Procedure Generic Drug … April 1, 2021 16 Weighted Frequency tables: PUF Medicare Pharmacy The FREQ Procedure Generic Drug … April 1, 2021 17 Weighted Frequency tables: PUF Medicare Pharmacy The FREQ Procedure Generic Drug

158. SyH-DR PUF Summary Statistics-Medicaid Pharmacy Weighted (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/SyH-DR-PUF-Summary-Statistics-Medicaid-Pharmacy.pdf
     April 01, 2021 - April 1, 2021 13 Weighted Frequency tables: PUF Medicaid Pharmacy The FREQ Procedure Generic Drug … April 1, 2021 14 Weighted Frequency tables: PUF Medicaid Pharmacy The FREQ Procedure Generic Drug … April 1, 2021 15 Weighted Frequency tables: PUF Medicaid Pharmacy The FREQ Procedure Generic Drug … April 1, 2021 16 Weighted Frequency tables: PUF Medicaid Pharmacy The FREQ Procedure Generic Drug … April 1, 2021 17 Weighted Frequency tables: PUF Medicaid Pharmacy The FREQ Procedure Generic Drug

159. HIV and AIDS | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Sharing of drug needles with an infected person. … Injection drug users. Homeless people. … Injection drug use (males), 3.6% (1,590). Injection drug use (females), 2.4% (1,045). … Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use, 2.8% (1,217). … Injection drug users obtain and spread HIV by: Sharing drug preparation or injecting equipment with

160. Final Progress Report: Risk-Informed Interventions in Community Pharmacy: Implementation and Evaluation (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/cohen2-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - errors when taking that drug along with key clinical information about the drug. … The drug information facts were gleaned from reliable drug information resources, including the product … a professional drug information specialist and an online drug information vendor. … Drug information. … On average, staff (94%) believed that drug information updates, which include national drug code (NDC