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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.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/tool-3.1-flyer-english-large.pdf
July 31, 2017 - Electronic prescriptions also have other benefits:
Storing information about your medications electronically … can help your
doctor keep track of your medications and may help prevent allergic reactions
and drug-to-drug … • Some medications will still require paper prescriptions. … Prescriptions for some pain medications and other “controlled
substances” cannot be sent electronically
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/2011_017149_veline_pdf_3.pdf
January 01, 2011 - August 2011
AHRQ Funding Amount: $1,181,866
Summary: Poor patient compliance with prescribed medications … e-prescribing software, DrFirst Rcopia, that enables physicians
to track the fill status of prescribed medications … Specific Aims:
• Improve the rate of adherence to prescribed medications among patients with hypertension … However, there was an increased level of satisfaction with
hypertension medications after both implementations … and increased use of multisource or generic medications.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/tool-3.1-flyer-english.pdf
July 31, 2017 - Electronic prescriptions also have other benefits:
Storing information about your medications electronically … can help your doctor keep track of your medications and
may help prevent allergic reactions and drug-to-drug … • Some medications will still require paper
prescriptions. … Prescriptions for some pain
medications and other “controlled substances”
cannot be sent electronically
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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
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/ambulatory-electronic-medical-record-and-shared-access/annual-summary/2009
January 01, 2009 - nonhospital provider settings and 2) integrating electronic tools for prescription orders and management of medications … department (ED) and inpatient caregivers benefit from having electronic access to the patients’ ambulatory medications … initial survey results indicated that the caregivers were not always able to obtain a complete list of medications … for patients because the patients could not communicate or simply did not understand their medications … their ability to provide care, all respondents stated that their ability to access patients’ ambulatory medications
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/pharmaceutical-safety-tracking-phast-managing-medications-patient-safety-3
January 01, 2023 - Investigator
Gardner, William
Project Name
Pharmaceutical Safety Tracking (PhaST): Managing Medications
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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.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/E-PrescribingPhysicianTool10.1b.pdf
February 10, 2012 - Storing information about your medications electronically
can help our office keep track of your medications … • Some medications will still require paper
prescriptions. … Prescriptions for some pain
medications and other “controlled substances”
cannot be sent electronically
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/E-PrescribingPhysicianTool10.1a.pdf
February 15, 2012 - Storing information about
your medications electronically can help our office keep track of your
medications … • Some medications will still require paper prescriptions. … Prescriptions for some pain medications and other “controlled
substances” cannot be sent electronically
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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.
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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
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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
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/parentlink-better-and-safer-emergency-care-children
January 01, 2023 - hospitals that parents used to enter information about their children's symptoms, disease conditions, medications … study was to evaluate the completeness and accuracy of information on symptoms, disease condition, medications … tracking system provides to decision support--is a symptom history, a preliminary list of allergies to medications … , a list of current medications, and recommended medications or actions for diagnostic testing and treatment
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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.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/improve-medication-management-slides-091318.pdf
September 27, 2018 - Some people find it helpful to use an alarm on their mobile phone to remember to take medications. … • Outcomes followed for 6 months:
– Discrepancies between documented and dispensed
medications.
– … Too many medications dispensed outside
of the pillbox. … Time required to dispense initial
medications and enter information into
pillbox application. … Group medications for each dose if
possible; planned pillbox enhancements
to detect one small pill.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/medication-metronome-project
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
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/dissemination-and-implementation-qt-risk-clinical-decision-support
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
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/r21hs018205-kearns-annual-summary-2012.pdf
January 01, 2012 - the new method will be
a useful tool for relating changes in fall risk to alterations in health and medications … During the study, a complete evaluation of participant medications was conducted, with particular emphasis … on identifying and recording the number of psychoactive and non-psychoactive medications that each … Medications, ADLs, residents’ history of falls, and Fractal D
were entered as predictors in a multinomial … The first-phase medication analysis to evaluate the impact of psychoactive medications on fall risk in
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/use-mobile-technology-improve-acute-care-utilization-sickle-cell-disease
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