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161. Text Messaging to Improve Hypertension Medication Adherence in African Americans (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/2011_019092_buis_pdf_3.pdf
     January 01, 2011 - Despite evidence that hypertension medications can reduce the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke … the development of a mobile phone text message system to improve adherence to antihypertensive medications … and Findings: Analysis of the focus groups indicated that despite high self-reported adherence to medications … , participants do not always take their medications as prescribed. … The majority of participants wanted to receive daily reminders to take their medications with the option

162. MyMediHealth: A Paradigm for Children-Centered Medication Management - 2012 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/my-medihealth-paradigm-children-centered-medication-management/annual-summary/2012
     January 01, 2012 - The project team developed a knowledge base of common pediatric asthma medications that have been incorporated … Specific Aims: Develop an information and scheduling knowledge base for common pediatric asthma medications … (including allergy medications). … that there is quite a bit of cost associated with bi-directional texting to confirm compliance with medications … This is especially true if a patient is taking four-to-five medications.

163. 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.

164. Improving Post-Hospital Medication Management of Older Adults With Health Information Technology (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/2011_017203_gurwitz_pdf_3.pdf
     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 … 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

165. A Controlled Trial of Smart Infusion Pumps to Improve Medication Safety in Critically Ill Patients | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
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     June 14, 2021 - Infusion Pumps to Improve Medication Safety in Critically Ill Patients Errors associated with medications … Medications were also frequently administered without documentation of physician orders in both periods

166. My MediHealth: A Paradigm for Children-Centered Medication Management - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/my-medihealth-paradigm-children-centered-medication-management/annual-summary/2011
     January 01, 2011 - The project team developed a knowledge base of common pediatric asthma medications that have been incorporated … Specific Aims: Develop an information and scheduling knowledge base for common pediatric asthma medications … (including allergy medications). … that there is quite a bit of cost associated with bi-directional texting to confirm compliance with medications … This is especially true if a patient is taking four-to-five medications.

167. A National Web Conference on Enhancing Behavioral Health Care Using Health IT (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/behavioral-health-slides-022713.pdf
     January 01, 2020 - Real Time at the Point-of-Care Physician View Data Challenges: Integration and Quality Medications … Processing Data to Display Medications Treatment Outcome Primary Diagnosis Comorbid Conditions … Profile of about prescribed medications and therapy Single View: Patient Treatments & Outcome … Profile of about prescribed medications and therapy Treatment evidence aggregated from comparative … Exploratory Data Analysis Effect of switching patients to new medications (by gender) Before

168. 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

169. Improving Outpatient Medication Lists Using Temporal Reasoning and Clinical Texts (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/improving_outpatient_medication_lists_using_temporal_reasoning_and_clinical_texts_2010_pdf__2.pdf
     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 … 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

170. 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.

171. A Systems Engineering Approach: Improving Medication Safety (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/a_systems_engineering_approach__improving_medication_safety_with_clinician_use_of_health_it_2010_pdf__2.pdf
     January 01, 2010 - 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 … 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

172. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2008 - When health professionals administer medications to patients, the IT system electronically records medication … •Several AHRQ-funded BCMA projects report that they had to internally repackage medications to properly … Thus, grantees found that they must re-package very small medications into larger packages that provide … In-house repackaging of medications is often necessary to improve the usability of bar codes and to comply … Because this often includes medications that are packaged in very small containers, compliance with the

173. Layout 1 (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/08-0085_bcma.pdf
     August 01, 2008 - When health professionals administer medications to patients, the IT system electronically records medication … •Several AHRQ-funded BCMA projects report that they had to internally repackage medications to properly … Thus, grantees found that they must re-package very small medications into larger packages that provide … In-house repackaging of medications is often necessary to improve the usability of bar codes and to comply … Because this often includes medications that are packaged in very small containers, compliance with the

174. 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

175. Enabling E-Prescribing and Enhanced Management of Controlled Medications - Final Report (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017157-carrow-final-report-2012.pdf
     January 01, 2012 - Enabling E-Prescribing and Enhanced Management of Controlled Medications - Final Report Grant … Report Grant ID: R18 HS17157 Enabling E-Prescribing and Enhanced Management of Controlled Medications … An issue often identified with e-prescribing of non-controlled medications is that providers “batch” … Whether this involves exception analysis, whereby dispensed medications without underlying EPCSs are … Update: Enabling E-Prescribing and Enhanced Management of Controlled Medications Massachusetts Board

176. Creating Meaningful Decision Support to Reduce Drug-Drug Interactions | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/program-overview/research-stories/creating-meaningful-decision-support-reduce-drug-drug
     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

177. National Web-Based Teleconference on Utilizing Health IT to Improve Medication Management for the Care of Elderly Patients (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/medication-management-elderly-slides-081811.pdf
     August 18, 2011 - Components: notification to PCP of discharge, reminder to schedule visit, list of new medications, … that their doctor asks them if they are having any problems with their new medications, and these … • Most said their primary care physicians rarely explain much to them about their medications. … • No participant had discussed with their physician which medications were most important never … , and getting help with medications

178. AHRQ-Funded ParentLink Project Aims to Make Pediatric Emergency Care More Patient-Centered | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
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     June 29, 2007 - 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

179. My MediHealth: A Paradigm for Children-Centered Medication Management - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/my-medihealth-paradigm-children-centered-medication-management/annual-summary/2010
     January 01, 2010 - The project will develop a knowledgebase of common pediatric asthma medications that will be incorporated … Specific Aims: Develop an information and scheduling knowledgebase for common pediatric asthma medications … (including allergy medications). ( Achieved ) Adapt MyMediHealth in its current prototype form to … MyMediHealth on medication adherence. ( Ongoing ) 2010 Activities: In 2010, the team completed the asthma medications … For example, the team is adding photos of medications to the database, as well as functionality for users

180. Ambulatory Electronic Medical Record and Shared Access (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/ambulatory_electronic_medical_record_and_shared_access_2009_pdf__2.pdf
     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 … ability to provide care, all respondents stated that their ability to access patients’ ambulatory medications