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1. Final-Drugs-For-Covid (pdf file)
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   August 19, 2021 - , Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Research Findings #49: Pre-COVID Retail Use and Expenditures for Drugs … Drugs to Treat COVID-19 a respiratory agent Albuterol Azithromycin 17 million per year 14 million … per year used by used by Most widely prescribed retail and mail-order drugs in 2014-2018 that

2. Drugs to Treat COVID | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   August 01, 2021 - FAQs Home Data & Analytics Data Infographics Drugs … States Health Information Knowledgebase Data Sources Available from AHRQ Drugs … to Treat COVID   Drugs to Treat COVID (PDF, 459 KB) Source:  AHRQ, Medical Expenditure … Page last reviewed August 2021 Page originally created August 2021 Internet Citation: Drugs … https://www.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/drugs-covid.html   Back to Top

3. Retail and Mail Order Drugs Used in 2014-18 and Later Prescribed For COVID-19 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2022 - Home Data & Analytics Data Visualizations Retail and Mail Order Drugs … ’ new uses may cause shortages or price increases that affect people who used these drugs before the … Source: AHRQ MEPS Research Findings #49: Pre-COVID-19 Retail Use and Expenditures for Drugs That Were … This information is used to present the percent distribution of conditions associated with drugs that … https://www.ahrq.gov/data/visualizations/retail-drugs-covid-19.html  

4. Final Report: Improving Drug Safety (pdf file)
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   January 01, 2024 - chronic renal insufficiency (Renal Intervention); b) lab monitoring of patients receiving high-risk drugs … Lab monitoring of patients receiving high-risk drugs (Lab Monitoring Intervention) c. … There were 20,000+ patients prescribed high-risk drugs that required lab monitoring. … at risk of having these drugs accumulate, with resulting increases in risk of drug toxicity. … combinations, spironolactone), whereas some low-yield drugs were removed.

5. Consumer Reports Uses AHRQ’s Evidence Reports in Drug Comparisons | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2016 - "We've used the AHRQ evidence reports for many of the Best Buy Drugs reports we've produced," he noted … Best Buy Drugs reports based on AHRQ evidence reviews receive wide distribution, either through the … For example, information in Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs publication on Alzheimer's disease drugs … Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs reports on diabetes medicines, anticoagulants, and allergy medications … The Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs reports that draw upon AHRQ-sponsored information are based on

6. Dentists Prescribing Fewer High-Alert Drugs to Children | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   February 01, 2023 - News Newsletter AHRQ News Now Dentists Prescribing Fewer High-Alert Drugs … Newsletter AHRQ News Now Events Dentists Prescribing Fewer High-Alert Drugs … Today's Headlines: Dentists Prescribing Fewer High-Alert Drugs to Children . … Dentists Prescribing Fewer High-Alert Drugs to Children Dental prescriptions to children for potentially … originally created February 2023 Internet Citation: Dentists Prescribing Fewer High-Alert Drugs

7. Final Progress Report: Advancing Patient Safety Innovation in Rheumatology (ASPIRE) (pdf file)
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   January 01, 2024 - project was to characterize ambulatory medication safety events related to high-risk immunosuppressive drugs … informaticists, and measurement experts studied ambulatory patient safety for people using high-risk drugs … frequency and determinants of errors and adverse events for patients prescribed immunosuppressive drugs … The project generated new epidemiological evidence of patient safety risks and adverse events for drugs … ASPIRE reach program sought to address this gap by studying ambulatory patient safety errors for drugs

8. Glossary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   November 01, 2020 - Anesthesia: A loss of feeling or awareness caused by drugs or other substances. … Top of Page G   Generic Drugs: Generic drugs are safe, effective, and approved by the U.S. … They have the same dosage, safety, quality, performance, and strength as brand-name drugs. … Generic drugs usually cost less than brand-name drugs. … Pharmacy: A place where drugs are sold; a drugstore.

9. Final Progress Report: TOP-MEDS CERT: Tools for Optimizing Medication Safety (pdf file)
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   January 01, 2024 - Drug name confusion causes patients to receive the wrong drugs. … This book is in nontechnical language and is important because the safety of pharmaceutical products … Analysis of suicide attempts and self-harm for 949 drugs revealed nine drugs associated with increased … risk and 28 drugs associated with decreased risk. … (referred to as control drugs) available in the market.

10. When Do You Need An Antibiotic? (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2017 - (17)-0003-17-EF March 2017 http://www.cdc.gov/longtermcare/resident/index.html http://www.fda.gov/Drugs … /ResourcesForYou/UCM078484 Antibiotics: Powerful Drugs, But Only When Used for the Right Reasons Antibiotic … drugs are strong medicine that can save lives when used appropriately to treat bacterial infections … It is important for us all that these powerful drugs are used only when they can help, so they will … Antibiotics can help the body fight bacterial infections, but they are not miracle drugs for everything

11. Final progress Report: Anticholinergics and Cognitive Decline in the Elderly with Depression (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - Level 0 contains drugs with no known anticholinergic activity; level 1 includes drugs with potential … Anticholinergic side-effects of drugs in elderly people. … Drugs Aging. 2011 Feb 1;28(2):131-8. PMID: 21275438. 32. … Drugs Aging. 2017 Sep; 34(9):691- 700. PMID: 28656508. … Drugs Aging. 2017 Sep;34(9):691-700. PMID: 28656508. 2.

12. Final Progress Report: Gastrointestinal Safety of Antithrombotic Drug Regimens (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - hamid.jalal@ahrq.hhs.gov Phone: (301) 427-1033 2 ABSTRACT Background & Methods: Antithrombotic drugs … used in combination, and the availability of new drugs with higher GIB risk than their predecessors … These are likely underestimates of the magnitude of risk, as antithrombotic drugs are increasingly … anticoagulant drug in dual and triple combinations by first identifying patients with overlapping drugs … What is already known about this subject: Antithrombotic drugs (antiplatelets and anticoagulants) are

13. Weighted Summary Statistics: PUF Medicaid Outpatient File (Version 2) (pdf file)
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    September 26, 2023 - 150,385,574 97.86 H0001-H2037: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services 92,461 0.06 150,478,034 97.92 J0120-J9999: Drugs … 152,391,829 99.17 H0001-H2037: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services 9,261 0.01 152,401,091 99.17 J0120-J9999: Drugs … 152,535,319 99.26 H0001-H2037: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services 8,322 0.01 152,543,641 99.26 J0120-J9999: Drugs … 153,641,490 99.98 H0001-H2037: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services 854 0.00 153,642,344 99.98 J0120-J9999: Drugs … 153,651,801 99.99 H0001-H2037: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services 587 0.00 153,652,388 99.99 J0120-J9999: Drugs

14. Imbedding Research in Practice to Improve Medication Safety (pdf file)
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    May 07, 2008 - (Critical Drug Interactions); (2) receive anticoagulation treatment and are prescribed drugs that … interact with warfarin (Warfarin-Drug Interactions); (3) receive high-risk drugs requiring laboratory … (decrease) • N = 555 instances of codispensing of 8 pairs of interacting drugs … • Patients dispensed contraindicated drugs: o Usual care group, 5.5%. … Study demonstrated importance of monitoring drugs with toxicity risk.

15. Weighted Summary Statistics: PUF Commercial Inpatient File (Version 2) (pdf file)
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    September 26, 2023 - 9,491,804 99.53 H0001-H2037: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services 993 0.01 9,492,797 99.54 J0120-J9999: Drugs … 9,499,881 99.61 H0001-H2037: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services 912 0.01 9,500,793 99.62 J0120-J9999: Drugs … 9,535,653 99.99 H0001-H2037: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services 72 0.00 9,535,725 99.99 J0120-J9999: Drugs … 9,535,890 99.99 H0001-H2037: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services 21 0.00 9,535,911 99.99 J0120-J9999: Drugs … 9,536,088 99.99 H0001-H2037: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services 21 0.00 9,536,109 99.99 J0120-J9999: Drugs

16. Fallpxtool3I (doc file)
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    January 01, 2012 - Consult the hospital pharmacy and therapeutics committee or pharmacy department for formulary drugs within … The hospital can decide how to specify the drugs that fall within these risk classes. … disturbances, altered gait and balance, impaired cognition 2 (Medium) Antihypertensives, cardiac drugs … scoring system, the falls toolkit team recommends that you include non-benzodiazepine sedative-hypnotic drugs

17. AHRQ Stats: Hospital Admission Emergency Department Visits | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2022 - Spending Declines after Affordable Care Act, AHRQ Study Finds New Data Visualization Shows Use of Drugs … New Data Visualization Shows Use of Drugs in 2014-2018 Later Prescribed for COVID-19 A new AHRQ data … before the COVID-19 pandemic among the drugs later used to treat COVID-19. … Quantifying the use and expenditures of these medications before COVID-19 suggests how the drugs' new … uses may cause shortages or price increases that affect people who were using these drugs prior to the

18. ABCS Aspirin Treatment for Secondary and Primary Prevention ASCVD
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    April 01, 2016 - ABCS-Aspirin when appropriate Anatomy of a Performance Measure Measure Exceptions Aspirin and Antiplatelet Drugs … Aspirin for Primary Prevention Aspirin for Primary Prevention Updated April 2016 Aspirin and Antiplatelet Drugs … in IVD—Work Flow Aspirin and Antiplatelet Drugs in Ischemic Vascular Disea... … Aspirin and Antiplatelet Drugs in Ischemic Vascular Disease Secondary prevention is where the evidence … prevent CVD and colorectal cancer in adults age 70 years and older I 13 Aspirin and Antiplatelet Drugs

19. 6 Tk1 T4-Be Smart About Antibiotics Final (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2014 - Antibiotics can help the body fight infections caused by germs called bacteria, but they are not miracle drugs … Resistance can make you sick longer, requiring more doctor visits and drugs that are even stronger. … Resources for you: CDC: www.cdc.gov/getsmart/ FDA: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/UCM078484

20. 6 Tk1 T5-Suspect A Urinary Tract Infection Brochure Ma Coalition Final (pdf file)
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    June 18, 2015 - from the Coalition and the Massachusetts Infection Prevention Partnership Antibiotics Are Powerful Drugs … When Used For The Right Reasons Antibiotics are strong drugs that fight infections caused by bacteria … Overuse of these drugs can cause problems and they should be used only when needed. … Fighting resistance requires stronger drugs and more healthcare, and recovery may take more time.