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121. NLP to identify and rank clinically relevant information from EHRs in the Emergency Department - Final Report (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs024541-goss-final-report-2018.pdf
     January 01, 2018 - signature for medications, side for procedures and diagnoses, etc. … "Medication/diabetes medications/oral hypoglycemics/metformin". … Pointwise-mutual information Medications: To better detect appearances of medications with the chief … While the active medications list may differ in item distribution, the challenge of ranking medications … Table 5: Mean Average Precision of the ranking methods for medications.

122. Dissemination and Implementation of QT Risk Clinical Decision Support | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - s workflow combined with a continuing medical education program increases a provider’s awareness of medications … factors for TdP include heart failure, advanced age, female sex, electrolyte imbalances, and certain medications … Over 150 prescribed medications can prolong QTc intervals. … The existing system alerts ordering providers about medications with a known risk of TdP. … replacement protocols if indicated; and an ability to cancel the medication being ordered or existing medications

123. Improving Post-Hospital Medication Management of Older Adults with Health Information Technology - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-post-hospital-medication-management-older-adults-health-information/annual-summary/2011
     January 01, 2011 - ambulatory settings for older adults who have multiple comorbid conditions and are prescribed high-risk medications … additions; and 3) generating patient-specific therapeutic monitoring recommendations for high-risk medications … impact of automated monitoring alerts on the prevalence of appropriate monitoring for selected high-risk medications … (Achieved) Assess (by level of comorbidity, number of medications, and use of specific high-risk medications … Laboratory monitoring : Appropriate monitoring for selected high-risk medications within 45 days from

124. The Excellence Report: Quality Measures for Colonoscopy (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/resource/Logan_ExcellenceReportQMs.pdf
     June 16, 2021 - If sedation medications are listed and, in addition, there is documentation that no sedation medications … " and entering other medications as free text … • If medications are given (either listed or in free text) and "No sedation medications given" is … • Medications documented in free text as "Other sedation medications" will not be evaluated for documentation … • If sedation medications are documented in free text for "Other sedation medications" in CORI

125. Use of Mobile Technology To Improve Acute Care Utilization in Sickle Cell Disease | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - these high re-utilization rates are poorly understood, close followup and continued titration of pain medications … Document compliance using SMART to the treatment plan specified by the provider team for medications … Despite being reminded to bring their pill bottles, patients consistently did not bring their medications … Furthermore, although patients used the SMART app to record symptoms, medications taken were much less

126. A Systems Engineering Approach: Improving Medication Safety with Clinician Use of Health IT - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/systems-engineering-approach-improving-medication-safety-clinician-use-health/annual-summary/2010
     January 01, 2010 - of an IT-based CRM intervention on improving monitoring for geriatric patients who are on persistent medications … Examples include: incorporation of patient education brochures for high-risk medications; inclusion of … methods for overcoming common barriers. 2) HEDIS measure for lab monitoring for patients on chronic medications … At all practices, the majority of patients had appropriate laboratory monitoring for these medications … complete and there was considerable variation between practices, especially for the statin group of medications

127. Optimizing Medication History Value in Clinical Encounters with Elderly Patients (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017150-lapane-final-report-2010.pdf
     January 01, 2010 - Forty four percent reported taking six or more medications a month. … Thirty seven percent reported forgetting to take their medications. … Twenty-three percent reported needing help taking their medications. … with 58% reporting that the doctor goes over their medications at every visit. … Fifty- five percent reported that their doctors go over specific medications not to skip.

128. Harnessing Health Information Technology to Prevent Medication-Induced Birth Defects - Final report (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r18hs017093-schwarz-final-report-2011.pdf
     January 01, 2011 - Clinicians in the intervention groups will prescribe fewer teratogenic medications than clinicians in … All panelists received a list of medications we felt were potentially worthy of counseling. … on the list of medications that triggered the CDS we developed. … All study PCPs received clinical alerts when ordering potentially teratogenic medications. … Prescription of teratogenic medications in United States ambulatory practices.

129. Scaling E.Q.U.I.P.P.E.D. Clinical Decision Support | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2024 - Discharged from the Emergency Department  significantly reduces the prescribing of potentially inappropriate medications … Medication Safety Quality Improvement The prescribing of potentially inappropriate medications … training, insufficient knowledge of age-related changes in how the body responds to and metabolizes medications … For older patients, new medications prescribed outside of the primary care setting increases the chance … Across all sites, prescriptions of potentially inappropriate medications reduced after EQUIPPED was implemented

130. Preventing Medication-Related Problems in Care Transitions to Skilled Nursing Facilities | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/preventing-medication-related-problems-care-transitions-skilled-nursing
     July 31, 2025 - transition by using a structured handoff between clinical teams along with a pharmacist to monitor patient medications … transition by using a structured handoff between clinical teams along with a pharmacist to monitor patient medications … The program also requires an expanded role for hospital-based pharmacists to reconcile medications at … from different racial backgrounds, those who do not speak English, and people who are on high-risk medications

131. Tailored DVD to Improve Medication Management for Low Literate Elderly Patients (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017281-lapane-final-report-2010.pdf
     January 01, 2010 - and having co-morbidities.3 With medications, doctors initiate discussion, but leave little room for … Elderly persons consume 31% of all medications prescribed. … The free text which indicates instructions may not reflect how patients actually take medications. … The burden of taking so many medications influenced decisions to stop taking medications or to skip … , and getting help with medications.

132. Improving Post-Hospital Medication Management of Older Adults with Health Information Technology - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-post-hospital-medication-management-older-adults-health-information/annual-summary/2010
     January 01, 2010 - ambulatory settings for older adults who have multiple comorbid conditions and are prescribed high-risk medications … additions; and 3) generating patient-specific therapeutic monitoring recommendations for high-risk medications … impact of automated monitoring alerts on the prevalence of appropriate monitoring for selected high-risk medications … department visits within 30 days of discharge. ( Ongoing ) Assess (by level of comorbidity, number of medications … , and use of specific high-risk medications) whether a health IT-based transitional care intervention

133. Improving Outpatient Medication Lists Using Temporal Reasoning and Clinical Texts - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-outpatient-medication-lists-using-temporal-reasoning-and-clinical/annual-summary/2010
     January 01, 2010 - and associated temporal information from clinical texts, and to chronologically order and classify medications … develop a mechanism to represent the timing of medication use, detect the changes, and then to organize medications … The project team manually compared the differences between medications listed on the SML and those recorded … Preliminary Impact and Findings: Based on the manual comparison of the medications listed in the SML … These challenges include: notes containing detailed dosing regimen adjustment and status changes; some medications

134. Medication Reconciliation to Improve Quality of Transitional Care - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/medication-reconciliation-improve-quality-transitional-care/annual-summary/2011
     January 01, 2011 - Providers are surveyed before and after the intervention about satisfaction with care, managing medications … , and usefulness of local information systems in managing medications. … several refinements to the user interfaces to increase the speed of the system, improve the dictionary of medications … in 2010 to ask physicians about satisfaction with local tools and resources for managing inpatient medications … , ease of managing medications, and accuracy of medication lists as noted in medical records.

135. Creating Meaningful Decision Support to Reduce Drug-Drug Interactions | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - information to healthcare providers when a patient is at risk but does not interrupt the workflow when the medications … developed and tested three apps for DDI-CDS ( https://ddi-cds.org/apps/ ): one for over-the-counter pain medications … of a target medication in an individual when used in combination with a specific group of different medications

136. The Impact of an Adaptive Patient-Centered Web Application on Medication Optimization in HFrEF Patients | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - The app uses data from the EHR—including medications, labs, allergies and intolerances, race, and vital … concordance between the recommendations provided by the medication optimization algorithm and the GDMT medications … Identify the patient and provider characteristics that moderate the effectiveness of SmartHF on optimizing medications

137. The Medication Metronome Project | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - timely medication intensification and inadequate safety monitoring among patients taking prescription medications … management system that enables specific clinical actions, such as the decision to initiate or adjust medications … Metronome system enables providers to schedule future laboratory tests related to a specific set of medications

138. Using a Telemedicine System to Promote Patient Care Among Underserved Individuals | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/using-telemedicine-system-promote-patient-care-among-underserved-individuals
     January 01, 2023 - There is more nonadherence to BP medications than some other medications because taking the medications … Adherence to BP medications could be improved if patients were more engaged in their own treatment.

139. Improving Laboratory Monitoring in Community Practices: A Randomized Trial | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - develop, implement, and evaluate computerized alerts to facilitate indicated laboratory monitoring of medications … CDS alerts found a decrease from 70.7 to 62.4 percent in appropriate monitoring of drug therapy of medications … in control practices; and from 79.4 to 77.7 percent of medications in intervention practices. … interventions may need to target both patients and clinicians to improve the complex behavior of laboratory medications

140. The Effectiveness of an HIT-based Care Transition Information Transfer System to Improve Outpatient Post-Hospital Care for Medically Complex Patients - Final Report (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017864-ciemins-final-report-2012.pdf
     January 01, 2012 - Reasons which could contribute to why medications were not reconciled, i.e., missed opportunities, … Patients were asked if they received education about their medications during their hospitalization … All medications had to be correct for that patient to qualify as correct. … of patients taking their medications correctly decreased. … System providers became better at reconciling medications over time.