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461. Dietary-Supplements Surveillance (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - CER #51: Dietary Supplements in Adults Taking Cardiovascular Drugs Original release date: April … ................................ 5 1 Dietary Supplements in Adults Taking Cardiovascular Drugs … Comparative Effectiveness Review (CER) #51, Dietary Supplements in Adults Taking Cardiovascular Drugs … Dietary Supplements in Adults Taking Cardiovascular Drugs. … OR exp Phytotherapy/ or exp Plant Preparations/ or exp Plant Extracts/ or exp Drugs, Chinese Herbal/

462. Infectious Disease Including HIV/AIDS #09 (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2015 - health care sector, horizon scanning pertains to identification of new (and new uses of existing) pharmaceuticals … Telaprevir’s manufacturer, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. … available at the time of writing. 6 AbbVie (North Chicago, IL), in collaboration with Enanta Pharmaceuticals … Cambridge (MA): Vertex Pharmaceuticals; 2011 May. 23 p. 3. Ferenci P. … http://blue.regence.com/trgmedpol/drugs/dru366.pdf http://blue.regence.com/trgmedpol/drugs/dru366.pdf

463. Screening For Illicit Drug Use: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     January 15, 2008 - The percentage of adults who regularly use illicit drugs decreases steadily with age. … About 5% of pregnant women report using illicit drugs within the past month. … Illicit (non-medical) use of prescription-type drugs, categorized as pain relievers, tranquilizers, … the effectiveness of selected population-based interventions for preventing or reducing abuse of drugs … The review targeted the four categories of illicit drugs whose use has been studied most extensively

464. Assessment of Pediatric Look-Alike, Sound-Alike (LASA) Substitution Errors - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2011 - they have identified a Food and Drug Administration file that contains cross-references for brand-name drugs … with their corresponding generic names, allowing the electronic linkage of drugs that are the same but … The Delphi process was successful in identifying drugs that the participants felt were of high potential

465. Hospitals scramble on the front lines of drug shortages. | PSNet
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     November 29, 2016 - 11, 2016 Spikes in demand from coronavirus patients are creating shortages of asthma drugs … September 12, 2016 Paramedics turn to expired drugs due to shortages.

466. S44 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - : DD trials deviated from ideal PRTs in the policymakers’ domain: the policies affected mixtures of drugs … The idea that PharmaCare should use a delayed control group to evaluate drugs and policy changes was … Duration of Delays Fortunately, the policy concerned respiratory drugs with short-term effects. … A 6-month trial would have been more problematic for drugs, such as statins, with cumulative effects … Medicare holds lottery for access to expensive drugs. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2004;61:1632,1636.

467. Microsoft Word - ehcrr#2toCSI.doc (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2007 - mood disorders, psychotic disorders, and other psychiatric disorders), prior use of anticholinergic drugs … , and current co- medication with anticholinergic drugs. … Using antipsychotic agents in older patients: Expert Consensus Panel for Using Antipsychotic Drugs in … FDA warns antipsychotic drugs may be risky for elderly. JAMA. 2005; 293: 2462. 9 Strong C. … , current use of anticholinergic drugs, total number of medications used, hospitalization and nursing

468. Ad-Br2Otj67Fendhhkltpa (pdf file)
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     Thank you for agreeing to take part in this brief interview about alcohol, tobacco products and other drugs … While we are also interested in knowing about your use of various illicit drugs, please be assured that … like heroin the following tips will help you reduce your risk of overdose.If you use depressant drugs … like heroin the following tips will help you reduce your risk of overdose.If you use depressant drugs … � avoid using other drugs, especially sedatives or alcohol, on the same day � use a small

469. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2017 - administered https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/hazards-loading-doses in a single bolus, although some drugs … digoxin, amiodarone) may require multiple loading doses administered over several hours to days.(1) Drugs … With many drugs, an increase in dose will give you a proportional increase in expected concentration … associated with loading doses.(7,8) From an organizational perspective, these include identifying drugs … that have the greatest risk of causing harm, limiting the number of drugs on formulary that require

470. Urinary-Incontinence-Treatment Surveillance (pdf file)
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     October 29, 2012 - How do combined modalities of nonpharmacological treatments with drugs affect incontinence, UI severity … * p<0.05; **p<0.001; ***p<0.01 No Signal Anticholinergic drugs vs. onabotulinumtoxinA … The absolute risk difference in continence was less than 20 percent for all drugs. … The absolute risk difference in continence was less than 20 percent for all drugs. … The numbers needed to treat (NNT) to achieve continence in one woman were similar across drugs.

471. Health Information Technology in the Nursing Home (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2008 - We included oral drugs commonly prescribed in the long-term care setting that are primarily eliminated … A total of 94 alerts were developed for the 62 drugs. … We limited the review to oral drugs commonly prescribed in the long-term care setting. … Pre-testing proceeded with the selection of four prototypical drugs which were programmed and fully … In a further analysis of drugs that should have been avoided, we found that these drugs were prescribed

472. Global Medical Supply Chain Security. | PSNet
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     September 20, 2017 - April 26, 2023 Nearly all thirty most frequently used emergency department drugs experienced … 6, 2020 Spikes in demand from coronavirus patients are creating shortages of asthma drugs

473. Enabling Electronic Prescribing and Enhanced Management of Controlled Medications - 2012 | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2012 - conditions who are frequently prescribed such medications; and 2) reduce the diversion of dangerous pharmaceuticals … substance e-prescriptions was determined to be more complicated than for e-prescribing of non-controlled drugs … As with electronic prescriptions for non-controlled drugs, delivery of the EPCS script to the pharmacy

474. MEPS
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     participants in the MEPS Household Component as sources of prescribed drugs … future years if it is identified as a continued source of prescribed drugs … household participants or identified as a source of prescribed drugs

475. Paralyzed by mistakes: preventing errors with neuromuscular blocking agents. | PSNet
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     June 10, 2018 - Cases Crossed Coverage February 1, 2007 Cardiovascular drugs … See More About The Topic Physicians Nurses Pharmacists Specific to High-Risk Drugs

476. Progress with preventing name confusion errors. | PSNet
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     May 07, 2018 - 10, 2018 Product-related issues make error potential enormous with investigational drugs … See More About The Topic Pharmacists Policy Makers Pharmacy Look-Alike, Sound-Alike Drugs

477. Drug shortages threaten patient safety. | PSNet
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     May 07, 2018 - committees need to proactively address the risk of accidental cerebral injection of intravenous (IV) drugs … September 8, 2016 Shortage of perioperative drugs: implications for anesthesia practice

478. STATISTICAL BRIEF #372: Trends in Anticonvulsants Utilization and Expenditures for the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 1999 and 2009
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     June 01, 2012 - with an understanding of the costs and extent to which specific therapeutic classes and subclasses of drugs … This Statistical Brief provides trends for one therapeutic subclass of prescribed drugs—anticonvulsants … These factors include: 1) drugs are reclassified due to changes in the Multum therapeutic classification … scheme, 2) new drugs become available over time, and 3) generic versions of previously brand name only … drugs become available.

479. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2006 - Although ACE inhibitors are generally well tolerated, like most drugs, their most worrisome adverse … to occur early in therapy.(4) The front-loading of adverse events, which is characteristic of most drugs … concomitant therapies, and comorbid illnesses, particularly renal disease and diabetes mellitus.(1,2,5) Drugs … Second, RCTs restrict or prohibit the concomitant use of other drugs that can cause hyperkalemia. … outcome Heparin Can occur with prophylactic doses (eg, 5000 units BID) Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

480. Obesity (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - In the health care sector, horizon scanning pertains to identifying new (and new uses of existing) pharmaceuticals … Information is compiled for expert comment on topics at a granular level (i.e., similar drugs in the … They are lorcaserin (Lorgess ® , Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, CA) and naltrexone HCl/bupropion … In May 2012, the FDA Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 18-4 in favor of … Phentermine/topiramate is a controlled-release formulation of two separate FDA-approved drugs.