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201. 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.

202. Final Progress Report: Rural Trial of Clinic Order Entry With Decision Support (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/samore-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Although it is possible to create orders for custom formulations or usage instructions for drugs, generally … We defined warfarin, lovastatin/simvastatin, and methylphenidate/Adderall as object drugs of interest … Precipitant drugs and their potential consequences are listed in the table below. … A mean of 70 patients per clinic had received one or more of the target drugs. … New prescriptions for familiar drugs and controlled substances took longer 16 with the CCOE tool

203. Fear, Reflexive Habits Prompt the Ordering of Blood Cultures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/689.html
     November 01, 2019 - Prescriptions In 2016, average prescription prices ranged from $1.00 per pill for nonspecialty generic drugs … to $324.65 per pill for specialty drugs.

204. New Blog Post: AHRQ at 20, AHRQ in 20—Looking Back to Look Ahead | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/690.html
     November 01, 2019 - November 26, 2019 AHRQ Stats: Brand-Name and Generic Drugs From 2011 to 2016, the … share of filled prescriptions that were nonspecialty, single-source, brand-name drugs decreased from

205. Comparative Reports on Health Plans | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/resources/comparative-reports/health-plans.html
     December 01, 2022 - benefits and services, a directory of providers working within the medical plan, a formulary list of drugs … Additional topics are included in the rating for plans that cover prescription drugs.

206. Meeting Minutes, March 2018 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2018-03-nac/nacmtg0317-minutes.html
     July 01, 2018 - new summary data tables, which address the areas of health insurance, medical conditions, prescribed drugs … allows for county-level comparisons of hospitalization rates for opioids, alcohol, stimulants, and other drugs … particular, he presented graphic pages that show rates of hospital stays relating to alcohol and other drugs … We need to address the issue of the high costs of drugs. Dr.

207. AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Safe Medication Administration
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/strategies/medication/safemedication.pptx
     May 01, 2017 - unit to consider as it establishes its processes for ensuring safe medication administration of these drugs … Admin. 3 High-Alert Medications1 High-alert medications are “drugs that bear a heightened risk of … Although mistakes are not necessarily more common with these drugs, the consequences of errors are more … safeguards to reduce the risk of errors, such as the following: Improving access to information about these drugs

208. Impact of Medicaid Policy on Cardiovascular Drug Use and Clinical Outcomes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/delivery-initiative/abstract-fischer.html
     December 01, 2017 - prescriptions covered and variations in required copayments, which generally cut across clinical classes of drugs

209. Medical Injury Identification Using Hospital Discharge Data (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Layde.pdf
     January 01, 2003 - Medical injuries were classified into four broad categories: (1) drugs; (2) procedures; (3) devices, … E-codes identified 98.5 percent of the medical injuries due to drugs and 78.9 percent of those due … Conversely, N-codes identified only 22.1 percent of medical injuries due to drugs and 53.9 percent of … 538 1.0 N/A† Specific reaction to unknown drug 1,316 2.4 1.43*** Misc. comp due to unspecified drugs … Our screening criteria identified a higher proportion of patient safety problems due to drugs than in

210. Minnesota Coordinates Mass Dispensing of Antibiotics and Vaccines With AHRQ Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/multicenter-0505-cdom-cp3.html
     October 01, 2014 - planners in estimating the number and type of staff needed for patient triage and the dispensing of drugs

211. Supplemental Measures of Care Affordability | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/careaffordability/measures4.html
     June 01, 2018 - Expenditures on hospitals and physicians rose an average of 2% per year while expenditures on prescription drugs

212. Surge in Drug Shortages Occurred in Wake of Pandemic, Study Finds | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/908.html
     April 01, 2024 - in JAMA Network Open , researchers analyzed data from 2017 to 2021 and found that 13.7 percent of drugs … Researchers said that injectable drugs, generics and essential World Health Organization medicines had

213. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 9. Reducing Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/reducing-adverse-drug-1.pdf
     March 01, 2020 - There was also a larger reduction in the number of drugs prescribed in the intervention group (p<0.046 … When two STOPP criteria, the prescription of benzodiazepines or of neuroleptic drugs to patients who … According to the STOPP criteria, 70 drugs were inappropriately prescribed before the intervention, and … 20 drugs after 6 months. … The median number of inappropriately prescribed drugs according to the STOPP criteria before education

214. Organizing Quality Measures by Disease or Condition | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/organize/disease.html
     May 01, 2019 - diabetes care, heart disease care, low back pain care, using antibiotics, asthma care and using generic drugs

215. 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

216. Strategies for Improving Patient Experience with Ambulatory Care: Price Transparency (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/6-strategies-for-improving/access/cahps-strategy-6n.pdf
     October 01, 2017 - have the time to explore alternatives (e.g., maternity care, elective surgeries); and prescription drugs … Payment data, which summarizes utilization and payments for procedures, services, and prescription drugs … costs for the procedure, where total cost includes physician services, facility fees, anesthesia, drugs

217. A Patient Safety Program & Research Evaluation of U.S. Navy Pharmacy Refill Clinics (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Reige.pdf
     March 01, 2004 - Early in his recovery, when the patient asked for his prescriptions to be renewed, all drugs that were … Pharmacists are more familiar than physicians with the concentrations of various drugs. … The cardiovascular drugs were refilled most often (21 percent), at a rate well above the second category … Percent of drug categories for Keflavik Pharmacy Refill Clinic Cardiovascular drugs include angiotensin … clinical pharmacist is empowered in this revised practice model to facilitate the work they know best—drugs

218. Sampling, Weighting, and Synthetization Methodologies (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/SyH-DR-%20Methods-2023Dec.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

219. 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

220. Event Investigation and Analysis Guide: Appendix A | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/modules/guide4/apa.html
     August 01, 2022 - "garbage in, garbage out." 5th Why : Why do you think the pharmacists or technicians who put the drugs