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21. 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.

22. Final Progress Report: Prescribing Errors in Ambulatory Pediatric Care (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - For dosing frequency determination, we focused on narcotic-containing drugs prescribed to children 0 … This approach had the effect of censuring < 0.01% of prescriptions for the 22 drugs. … Determining drugs to evaluate for narcotic overdosing. … However, the PPV for 7/17 (41%) drugs that triggered an alert remained ≥ 10%. E-1b. … Retrospective detection of potential medication errors involving drugs with similar names.

23. Recent Evidence Indicates a Flourishing Market for Biosimilar Drugs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2025 - Recent Evidence Indicates a Flourishing Market for Biosimilar Drugs Issue Number 943 AHRQ … Today's Headlines: Recent Evidence Indicates a Flourishing Market for Biosimilar Drugs . … Recent Evidence Indicates a Flourishing Market for Biosimilar Drugs An AHRQ-supported article in Health … Affairs discusses the potential of biosimilar drugs to unlock lower drug prices for patients. … Biosimilars are much more affordable versions of comparable brand-name biologic drugs.

24. 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.

25. Canada Uses AHRQ Research to Prevent Medication Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - AHRQ-supported research was influential in revisions to Health Canada's process for approving names for drugs … A drug neighborhood is a group of drugs with similar spellings, pronunciations, or therapeutic uses that … An example of a confusing (or "dense") neighborhood of drugs includes Dynabac, Synalar, Rynatan, Dynacirc … An example of a less confusing (or low density) neighborhood of drugs is the one containing only Flexeril … Notably, commonly prescribed drugs are recognized more accurately than rarely prescribed ones.

26. When Do You Need An Antibiotic? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - Resources for You CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/longtermcare/resident/index.html FDA: 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 work … Antibiotics can help the body fight bacterial infections, but they are not miracle drugs for everything

27. Dentists Prescribing Fewer High-Alert Drugs to Children | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2023 - Dentists Prescribing Fewer High-Alert Drugs to Children Issue Number 850 AHRQ News Now is … 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 … dangerous drugs decreased from 2012 to 2019, according to an AHRQ-funded study published in Pharmacoepidemiology

28. 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

29. Mixing Opioids and Psychotropic Drugs Increases Hospitalizations Among Older Dental Patients | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2020 - Mixing Opioids and Psychotropic Drugs Increases Hospitalizations Among Older Dental Patients Issue … Today's Headlines: Mixing Opioids and Psychotropic Drugs Increases Hospitalizations Among Older Dental … Mixing Opioids and Psychotropic Drugs Increases Hospitalizations Among Older Dental Patients One in … his research team developed to predict the likelihood of confusion between look-alike and sound-alike drugs

30. Maryland Guides Prescribers on Use of Atypical Antipsychotic Medications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2013 - These drugs, called atypical because they were developed later than so-called "conventional" antipsychotic … It is legal for a physician to prescribe drugs to treat conditions other than those approved by the FDA … "We had very young kids who were being prescribed some of these drugs, and about half were prescribed … topic in 2011 as new evidence emerged, and found that physicians commonly prescribe some psychiatric drugs … Mussman worked with staff to establish a program called the "Peer Review Program for Mental Health Drugs

31. How to Use HCUP to Create County-Level Statistics, Graphics, and Maps | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2018 - new HCUP county- and region-level statistics on hospital stays involving alcohol, opioids, and other drugs … statistics can also be generated: To obtain county or regional statistics on Stays for Alcohol and Other Drugs … Choose  Stays for Alcohol and Other Drugs. Agree to the terms of the data use agreement.  

32. Kesselheim, Aaron | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - Develop a comprehensive typology of off-label drug use that categorizes the different ways prescription drugs … Identify selected drugs in three categories (oncologic, neuropsychiatric, and 'orphan') and define the … He would like to make contributions to policy discussions regarding issues such as the proper use of drugs … study under Aim #2 has been completed which looked at trends in off-label drug use related to four drugs

33. 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.

34. Staying Active and Healthy with Blood Thinners - Transcript | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2015 - we'll attempt to address some of your concerns and answer many of the questions you may have about the drugs … Perhaps you've been wondering what these drugs do and why you need to take them. … Now let's talk about the drugs themselves. What are blood thinners? What do they do? … First the drugs are referred to as anticoagulants.

35. 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

36. Washington's Prescription Drug Program: Using Systematic Reviews To Make Policy Decisions in the Effort to Contain Prescription Drug Expenditures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - Committee members on the basics of systematic reviews comparing the safety, efficacy and effectiveness of drugs … the 2003 Legislature to mandate an evidence-based Preferred Drug List for state agencies purchasing drugs … Slide 6 Successes Financial: Preferred drugs: Savings estimated at $46 million/year. … safety concerns; COX IIs not any more safe than older less expensive nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

37. 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

38. Appendix 2: CED Compiled Public Comment Themes (xls file)
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    October 12, 2022 - Drugs and devices that are subject to CED should qualify for Medicare transitional pass-through status … Application of CED to on-label uses of drugs and biologicals restricts patient access. … Caution against the broad use of CED for on-label uses of drugs and biologics that have gone through … Ban CED for drugs with accelerated approval. … Recommends that on-label uses of drugs and biologicals be excluded from CED restrictions.

39. Final Progress Report: Risk-Informed Intervention to Improve Ambulatory Drug Monitoring and Safety (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - drugs that required only annual monitoring. … More than 275 providers prescribed the study drugs during the project. … This intervention was the most direct alternative, and it included all the study drugs. … 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).

40. 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