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161. Publications and Additional Materials | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/publications/search.html?page=4
     January 01, 2014 - Paediatr Drugs. 2013 Dec 1;15(6):441-7.

162. Women: Stay Healthy at 50 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patients-consumers/prevention/lifestyle/women-over-50.pdf
     March 01, 2014 - ■ You have ever injected drugs. ■ You received a blood transfusion before 1992. … Breast Cancer Drugs.

163. Sampling, Weighting, and Synthetization Methodologies (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/SyH-DR-Sampling-Weighting-Synthetization-Methodologies.pdf
     December 01, 2023 - Drugs may be associated with more than one therapeutic class. … This process was repeated for all drugs in that category. … set of synthetic drugs. … Synthetic drug IDs were replaced by the names of the generic drugs. … In contrast, the pharmacy files included a cost for each individual drug (except for drugs linked to

164. Final Progress Report: Auditory Perception of Drug Names: Neighborhood Effects (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/lambert3-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Brand name drugs were perceived less accurately than generic names were (brand, b=-0.18, OR=0.84, 95% … how frequently a give drug or class of drugs is used. … more risk of confusion than similarity to low-frequency drugs. … Drugs with more similar neighbors, and especially with frequently prescribed similar neighbors, are … more likely to be confused than are drugs with fewer and less frequently prescribed neighbors.

165. 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 - chemotherapeutic agents to identify potential hazards and improvement strategies associated with the drugs … Some of the remediation strategies suggested by each team were common across all five of the study drugs … ambulatory care across a variety of organizations, vulnerabilities in the medication use process for these drugs … In addition, a limited number of oral chemotherapy drugs was represented in the focus groups. … The study also demonstrates the use of FMEAs to analyze risks across drugs within a single cancer center

166. Maps and Directions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - Controlled substances (such as illegal drugs or paraphernalia), this does not include prescription medication

167. Making Information Technology a Team Player in Safety: The Case of Infusion Devices (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Nemeth.pdf
     January 01, 2002 - Previously, the use of fixed long-acting drugs, such as intramuscular morphine injections, limited intravenous … (2) to continue medication delivery while unattended; (3) to administer infusions of short-acting drugs … as fluid volume and drug concentration; and a library mode on the right side provides a roster of drugs … For example, pumps are designed to administer drugs using parameters that do not match the way the … Case 2-1992: unintentional delivery of vasoactive drugs with an electromechanical infusion device.

168. AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Safe Medication Administration (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/strategies/medication/safemed_facguide.pdf
     May 01, 2017 - unit to consider as it establishes processes for ensuring safe medication administration of these drugs … SAY: High-alert medications are defined by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices as “drugs … Although mistakes are not necessarily more common with these drugs, the consequences of errors are … require special safeguards such as the following: • Improving access to information about these drugs

169. Women: Stay Healthy at Any Age (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patients-consumers/prevention/lifestyle/healthy-women.pdf
     May 01, 2014 - ■ You have ever injected drugs. ■ You received a blood transfusion before 1992. … Breast Cancer Drugs.

170. CLABSI Learning From Defects Tool (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/clabsi-learning-from-defects_revised.docx
     April 01, 2022 - · Hemodynamic monitoring · Poor venous access · Long-term antibiotics · Vesicants or irritant drugs

171. 3 Tk1 T5-Draft Policies And Procedures For The Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Final (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/3_TK1_T5-Draft_Policies_and_Procedures_for_the_Antimicrobial_Stewardship_Program_final.docx
     October 01, 2016 - antimicrobial stewardship program intervention] DATE: [Date] Antibiotics are among the most commonly prescribed pharmaceuticals … Antibiotics are among the most commonly prescribed drugs in long-term care settings, yet reports indicate

172. Final Report: Using Risk Models To Improve Safety With Dispensing High-Alert Medications in Community Pharmacies (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/cohen-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Errors with these drugs are not necessarily more common, but the consequences are more devastating. … Examples of risk factors with these drugs can be found in Table 9 (Appendix A). … This PADE was also applicable to any medication, not just the high-alert drugs under study. … Which drugs cause preventable admissions to hospital? A systematic review. … Accessed February 28, 2009. 79 Top 200 brand drugs by units in 2007. Drug Topics Digital Edition.

173. Protecting Patients from Drug-Drug Medication Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2023 - Grantee Profile Protecting Patients from Drug-Drug Medication Errors Daniel C. Malone, Ph.D. Professor of Pharmacotherapy Skaggs College of Pharmacy University of Utah Daniel C. Malone, Ph.D. “With funding from AHRQ, I’ve helped ensure that warnings for drug-drug interactions are appropria…

174. Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999 (pdf file)
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     January 10, 2001 - —The Secretary, acting through the Director and in consultation with the Commissioner of Food and Drugs … , and devices; and ‘‘(III) risks of new uses and risks of combina- tions of drugs and biological products … , biological products, or devices; and ‘‘(II) the prevention of adverse effects of drugs, biological … ‘‘(B) The conduct of research on the comparative effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and safety of drugs … be appropriate, except that a grant may not be expended to assist the Secretary in the review of new drugs

175. Chapter 1 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/prevention/resources/vision/resources/vision1.html
     October 01, 2002 - Continuing with the example of stroke, anticoagulant drugs may be administered to break up blood clots … evidence-based specialty. 8 Investigators call for an increase in systematic technology assessment of devices, drugs … benefit from laser surgery but do not get it. 24 Medical treatment for glaucoma is available, but drugs … are costly, must be taken for life, and have side effects although newer glaucoma drugs are associated

176. Risk Reduction and Systematic Error Management: Standardization of the Pediatric Chemotherapy Process (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-David_13.pdf
     March 19, 2008 - Children have a distinct physiology and an immature ability to metabolize drugs. … Children, especially small infants, have a unique physiology and an immature ability to metabolize drugs … administration regimens.1 , 2 Furthermore, weight-based dosing and toxicities inherent in the investigational drugs … American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Drugs and Committee on Hospital Care.

177. Using ICD-9-CM Codes in Hospital Claims Data to Detect Adverse Events in Patient Safety Surveillance (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Hougland_26.pdf
     October 01, 2011 - drug class thought responsible for these symptoms (e.g., E933.1, antineoplastic and immunosuppressive drugs … Adverse Drug Events Clinical side effects of drugs. … Poisoning by anticonvulsants and anti-Parkinsonism drugs Total % 83.6 – Inpatient 7/102 (6.9) – … Adverse effects of anticonvulsants and anti-Parkinsonism drugs Total % 69.7 50.0 Inpatient 20/57 … Adverse effects of other drugs, biological, & medicinal substances in therapeutic use Total % 60.6

178. Preventable Emergency Department Visits | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/carecoordination/measure2.html
     June 01, 2018 - Of all drug misuse or abuse ED visits, about 1.25 million ED visits, or 50%, involved illicit drugs, … about 1.24 million, or 50%, involved nonmedical use of pharmaceuticals, and about 0.61 million, or 25% … , involved drugs combined with alcohol.

179. 3 Tk1 T5-Draft Policies And Procedures For The Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Final (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/3_TK1_T5-Draft_Policies_and_Procedures_for_the_Antimicrobial_Stewardship_Program_final.pdf
     October 01, 2016 - stewardship program intervention] DATE: [Date] Antibiotics are among the most commonly prescribed pharmaceuticals … Antibiotics are among the most commonly prescribed drugs in long-term care settings, yet reports indicate

180. Clinical Pharmacists in Emergency Medicine (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol4/Advances-fairbanks_20.pdf
     February 21, 2008 - These pharmacists are typically involved in assuring appropriate prescribing and administration of drugs … o Toxicology/drugs of abuse/overdose. • Some background in disaster management is preferred. … Keep informed of all local, State, and Federal laws covering the storage, handling, and dispensing of drugs … • Keep informed of the actions, side effects, and proper use of all new drugs as they are made commercially … available, as well as of all investigational drugs being studied at this institution