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301. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 07, 2025 - Program Improving healthcare quality by providing the best available evidence on benefits and harms of drugs

302. Brigham and Women’s Hospital CERT: Solving the Problem of Alert Fatigue To Minimize Medication Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - The CERTs conduct research and provide education that will advance the optimal use of drugs, medical

303. 5 Tk1 T5-Sample Policy Letter Final (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2016 - NURSING HOME] RE: Antibiogram Policy [DATE] Antibiotics are among the most commonly prescribed pharmaceuticals

304. 5 Tk1 T5-Sample Policy Letter Final (doc file)
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     October 01, 2016 - NAME OF NURSING HOME] RE: Antibiogram Policy [DATE] Antibiotics are among the most commonly prescribed pharmaceuticals

305. AHRQ Research Studies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2021 - general internists is that for patients with chronic conditions, out-of-pocket costs of prescription drugs … Dunlay SM Race and sex differences in the initiation of diabetes drugs … Race and sex differences in the initiation of diabetes drugs by privately insured US adults. … Race and sex differences in the initiation of diabetes drugs by privately insured US adults..

306. AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Safe Medication Administration (pdf file)
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     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

307. Final Progress Report: Surveillance for Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Pediatrics (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - BACKGROUND AND SIGNIFICANCE: ADEs, defined as harm to patients by drugs,(8) comprise one of the largest … The range of possible ADE types and offending drugs is therefore potentially greater in pediatrics than … pediatric ADEs may more commonly involve electrolyte solutions, anti-infectives, immunomodulating drugs … proportion of ADEs due to electrolyte-wasting medications (diuretics, antimicrobials, antirejection drugs … Validation of automated event triggers using laboratory values related to two problem-prone drugs.

308. Making Information Technology a Team Player in Safety: The Case of Infusion Devices (pdf file)
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     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.

309. Community-Acquired Pneumonia (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/CAP-one-page.docx
     November 01, 2019 - Drugs. 2008;68(13):1841-54. PMID: 18729535. Dunbar LM, Khashab MM, Kahn JB, et al.

310. Georgia Clinics Use AHRQ Materials to Help Patients Use Blood Thinners Safely | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Wallet card that says "I'm taking WARFARIN" on one side and a list of common drugs that interact negatively

311. Search Evidence-Based Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2012 - at Chapel Hill Report Status: Final Dietary Supplements in Adults Taking Cardiovascular Drugs

312. Search Evidence-Based Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2011 - Reviews Affiliation: Tufts University Report Status: Final Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs

313. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 17, 2024 - healthcare by synthesizing and disseminating the best available evidence on the benefits and harms of drugs

314. From Quality Measures to Quality Care: Examples of Quality Improvement at Work | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2018 - Assessment Program worked to generate consensus and commitment from providers to increase use of life-saving drugs … flow meter readings and site visits to physician offices to promote prescribing of anti-inflammatory drugs … An AHCPR-sponsored Patient Outcome Research Team (PORT) studied the use of drugs called corticosteroids

315. AHRQ News Now | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 18, 2025 - Stability January 7, 2025 Recent Evidence Indicates a Flourishing Market for Biosimilar Drugs

316. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Y Systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs … Systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs … If empiric drugs were stopped on day 4 while continuing another antibiotic it was defined at de-escalation … Thirteen percent (1924 patients) had both initial empiric drugs stopped by hospital day 4.

317. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - , Miller GE , Ding Y AHRQ Author: Hill SC, Miller GE, Ding Y Net spending on retail specialty drugs … This study examined net spending trends on retail specialty drugs from 2010 to 2017. … They found that specialty drugs accounted for 37.7% of retail and mail-order prescription spending net … Net spending on retail specialty drugs grew rapidly, especially for private insurance and Medicare Part

318. Blacks Experiencing Fast-Rising Rates of Overdose Deaths Involving Synthetic Opioids Other Than Methadone (pdf file)
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     February 20, 2020 - Than Methadone To understand the current opioid epidemic, it is critical to know which opioid drugs

319. Using ICD-9-CM Codes in Hospital Claims Data to Detect Adverse Events in Patient Safety Surveillance (pdf file)
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     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. … 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 … Total % 8.6 60.7 a Classes with five or fewer reviewed cases are not reported. 14 due to drugs

320. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 24, 2024 - healthcare by synthesizing and disseminating the best available evidence on the benefits and harms of drugs