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21. Electronic prescribing: Lowering Patients’ Prescription Drug Costs (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/THQITStoriesWeissman2010.pdf
    December 31, 2007 - Electronic Prescribing6 Lowering Patients’ Prescription Drug Costs The high cost of prescription drugs … prescription directly to a pharmacy.14 The system provides real­time information on the relative costs of drugs—or … Physicians select drugs from a color­coded list indicating the drug’s relative cost. … decision support, the e­prescribing system notifies participating physicians of typical doses for common drugs

22. A National Web Conference on the use of Health IT To Reduce Medication Errors and Improve Patient Safety (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/reduce-medication-errors-slides-082614.pdf
    August 26, 2014 - • 49% of the LASA pairs ► The cumulative total of subjects who received both drugs in a pair … • Eliminated drugs that would be of interest to other parties (e.g., inpatient). … • List of LASA pairs is not pediatric specific, so pediatricians are unfamiliar with many drugs. … • For 3.1% of the LASA pairs ► So many subjects receive both drugs within a 6-month period that … Retrospective detection of potential medication errors involving drugs with similar names.

23. Section 4 - Types of CDS Interventions | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/current-health-it-priorities/clinical-decision-support-cds/chapter-1-approaching-clinical-decision/section-4-types-cds-interventions
    June 14, 2021 - practice audit and feedback/physician report cards; for example, outlining rates at which highly indicated drugs … only one drug from a medication cocktail is selected or for reasons when ordering certain highly toxic drugs … example, for drug levels when ordering certain antibiotics or for premedication when ordering certain drugs … Clinicians, Patient Clinicians, Patient, Health System WHAT (INFOR MATION) Reference on drugs … administration, IV compatibility) Patient-oriented reference (drug, disease, lab) Reference drugs

24. Using the electronic medical record to enhance the use of combination drugs | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
    digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/health-it-costs-and-benefits-database/using-electronic-medical-record
    March 01, 2002 - Using the electronic medical record to enhance the use of combination drugs Authors:  Wells … Description:  The electronic medical record (EMR) was used to identify candidate patients for combination drugs

25. A demonstration project: Assessing the significance and impact of utilizing a novel telemedicine application in the delivery of community based palliative care in a rural seriously ill population - Final Report (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs026565-bull-final-report-2021.pdf
    January 01, 2021 - were involved in DDIs, and 51 drugs appeared in more than one interaction. … Table 3 shows the ten drugs that appeared most often in DDIs. … While 112 discrete drugs were involved in the 79 DDIs, 51 drugs (45.5%) appeared in more than one interaction … drug appeared in a DDI (%), N=235 interacting drugs. … Top 10 most common drugs involved in DDIs.

26. Tools for Optimizing Medication Safety (TOP-MEDS) (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/2011_021093_lambert_pdf_3.pdf
    January 01, 2011 - initiative to conduct research and provide education to advance the optimal use of therapeutics such as drugs … High-risk commonly used drugs such as opioid analgesics are frequently selected and dosed improperly. … Drug name confusion causes patients to receive the wrong drugs. … Consumers use drugs unsafely because drug information is limited and/or confusing.

27. Evaluation of drug interaction software to identify alerts for transplant medications | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
    digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/health-it-costs-and-benefits-database/evaluation-drug-interaction
    January 01, 2005 - drug interaction software database to identify clinically important interactions involving transplant drugs … clinical significance Evaluation Method:  compare the expert-derived list of interactions for certain drugs

28. Durieux P et al. 2008 "Computerized advice on drug dosage to improve prescribing practice." | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/durieux-p-et-al-2008
    January 01, 2008 - Abstract "Background: Maintaining therapeutic concentrations of drugs with a narrow therapeutic window … any change in the health of patients resulting from computerized advice (such as adverse reactions to drugs … were included (as compared to fifteen comparisons in the original review) including a wide range of drugs … change in the initial dose of drug but to have no effect on the maintenance dose and the total amount of drugs

29. R18Hs017203-Gurwitz-Final-Report-2011 (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017203-gurwitz-final-report-2011.pdf
    January 01, 2011 - Final guidelines included 35 drugs or drug classes and 61 laboratory tests. … ordered than for drugs without BBWs (86.4% vs 78.0%, p < 0.001). … Final guidelines included 38 drugs and drug classes and a total of 66 laboratory tests. … Final guidelines included 35 drugs/drug classes and 61 laboratory tests. … Rates of patient noncompletion of ordered tests for all drugs was generally <10%.

30. Walton RT et al. 1997 "Evaluation of computer support for prescribing (CAPSULE) using simulated cases." | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/walton-rt-et-al-1997
    January 01, 1997 - Levels of computer support were control (alphabetical list of drugs), limited support (list of preferred … drugs), and full support (the same list with explanations available for suggestions). … In the limited support mode the pick list of drugs was ordered with the most favoured drug at the top

31. Estimating the frequency of automated dispensing cabinet discrepancy safety events using Markov models. | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-patient-safety-and-clinician-cognitive-support-through-emar-redesign/citation/estimating
    January 01, 2023 - Drugs & Therapy Perspectives; Auckland Vol. 38, Iss. 3, (Mar 2022): 146-155.

32. Improving Lab Followup by Delivering an Enhanced Medication List to Outpatient Physician Practices - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-lab-follow-delivering-enhanced-medication-list-outpatient-physician/annual-summary/2010
    January 01, 2010 - reminders specifically related to the patient on drug-drug interactions, drug-lab interactions, and drugs … support rules to medication history documents in selected areas, such as inadequate lab monitoring, drugs … with abnormal labs, or drugs to avoid in the elderly. ( Achieved ) Deliver enhanced medication history … It was strongly agreed that medication histories helped discover drugs which were previously unknown

33. Tools for Optimizing Medication Safety (TOP-MEDS) (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/u19hs021093-lambert-annual-summary-2012.pdf
    January 01, 2012 - initiative to conduct research and provide education to advance the optimal use of therapeutics such as drugs … High-risk commonly used drugs such as opioid analgesics are frequently selected and dosed improperly … Drug name confusion causes patients to receive the wrong drugs. … Consumers use drugs unsafely because drug information is limited and confusing.

34. Value of New Drug Knowledge for e-Prescribing (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r01hs015377-schadow-final-report-2008.pdf
    January 01, 2008 - This is shown best by our ability to use the SPL labels and their descriptions of drugs directly for … When FDA published product labels really do cover all of currently marketed drugs, as they should by … law, then the need for other drug-terminologies that simply list and group drugs could be entirely … SPL had more detail on the drugs that are covered, but RxNorm and SPL have excellent agreement on the … User-defined abstraction from manufactured drugs can easily be created on the basis of detailed drug

35. Assessment of Pediatric Look-Alike, Sound-Alike Substitution Errors | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/assessment-pediatric-look-alike-sound-alike-substitution-errors
    January 01, 2023 - Medicaid paid claims data was used to identify patients 0-to-20 years of age who had received both drugs … For 83 percent of pairs, the cumulative total of subjects who received both drugs amounted to less than … By contrast, among the remaining 17 percent of pairs, there were 97,163 subjects who received both drugs

36. Annotated Bibliography (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/Annotated%20Bibliography_Final.pdf
    June 27, 2008 - Potential Savings from Substituting Generic Drugs for Brand-Name Drugs: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey … The Implications of Choice: Prescribing Generic or Preferred Pharmaceuticals Improves Medication Adherence

37. Fischer, Michael | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/fischer-michael
    January 01, 2023 - and Outcomes Prior authorization for biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs … Prior authorization for biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: a description of US Medicaid

38. 08-1094 (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/08-1094.pdf
    January 02, 2025 - This includes information about eligibility, benefits (including drugs included in the applicable … and any requirements for prior authorization), the drug being prescribed or dispensed and other drugs … , drugs for which the beneficiary paid in cash, and drugs not covered under Medicare Part D, including … covered under Medicare Part D and not drugs provided during a hospital stay. … advance what other, less costly drugs within a given drug classification or generic drugs can be

39. Use of a computer-based reminder to improve sedative-hypnotic prescribing in older hospitalized patients | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
    digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/health-it-costs-and-benefits-database/use-computer-based-reminder
    January 01, 2007 - Evaluation Method:  Using medical charts, assessed frequency of prescription of the four drugs mentioned … Healthcare Utilization:  Combined prescription rates for all 4 drugs fell consistently throughout the

40. Tools for Optimizing Medication Safety (TOP-MEDS) - Final Report (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/u19hs021093-lambert-final-report-2017.pdf
    January 01, 2017 - Patients are exposed to drugs whose risks are poorly understood. … Drug name confusion causes patients to receive the wrong drugs. … Analysis of suicide attempts and self-harm for 949 drugs revealed 9 drugs associated with increased risk … and 28 drugs associated with decreased risk. … (referred to as control drugs) available in the market.