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201. Active surveillance using electronic triggers to detect adverse events in hospitalized patients | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
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     June 01, 2006 - Chicago, IL Intervention:  Identified a list of triggers based on abnormal lab test results, high risk medications … and antidote medications and performed manual chart reviews on 8% of the patients for whom there was

202. Benziger, Catherine | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2025 - Effective CDS for use in a Large Rural Health System The impact of stimulant medications … The impact of stimulant medications on blood pressure and body mass index in children with ADHD.

203. Kharbanda, Elyse | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2025 - Effective CDS for use in a Large Rural Health System The impact of stimulant medications … The impact of stimulant medications on blood pressure and body mass index in children with ADHD.

204. RxSafe: Shared Medication Management and Decision Support for Rural Clinicians (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/rxsafe__shared_medication_management_and_decision_2010_pdf__2.pdf
     January 01, 2010 - The patient focus is on community-dwelling persons with chronic conditions on multiple medications. … integrate information for providers involved in prescribing, dispensing, administering, or monitoring medications … The classifier completed its demonstration phase and began classifying medications automatically using … that nurses, pharmacists, and physicians used different categorization schemes when thinking about medications … Finally, no publicly-available standard for classifying medications is in use, and this is a major barrier

205. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2008 - in a typical hospital have medications labeled at the level of the unit-dose.12 In an effort to increase … Implementation Considerations Need to Repackage Medications The FDA ruled that drug manufacturers must … However, there are still instances in which facilities have to barcode medications themselves, such … as: in cases of incompatibility with hospital scanners; cases where medications were received without … the barcode (despite the mandate); or in instances in which medications have to be re-packaged into

206. Using Barcode Medication Administration to Improve Quality and Safety (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2008 - in a typical hospital have medications labeled at the level of the unit-dose.12 In an effort to … Implementation Considerations Need to Repackage Medications The FDA ruled that drug manufacturers … must put linear barcodes on their medications at the level of the unit dose. 13 This mandate has … However, there are still instances in which facilities have to barcode medications themselves, such … the barcode (despite the mandate); or in instances in which medications have to be re-packaged into

207. Effective Use of e-Prescribing in Physician Practices and Pharmacies | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - To increase the use of generic medications, practices typically allow pharmacists to substitute generic … medications when brand medications are prescribed.

208. Adoption of electronic prescribing in community-based practices (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/AHRQ_Webinar_Aug_2009_Med_Mgmt.pdf
     January 01, 2009 - 1998 – Safer prescribing for the elderly • Peterson, Arch Intern Med 2005 – Guiding use of high-risk medications … II meds Controlling costs - promise • Large potential savings from prescribing less expensive medications … 2005) – Therapeutic substitution (Fischer, JAMA 2004) • Improved adherence for patients started on medications … – Elimination of need for two separate systems (i.e., e-prescribing for legend medications and paper … for controlled medications) Security Requirements The U.S.

209. The impact of a guideline-driven computer charting system on the emergency care of patients with acute low back pain | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
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     January 01, 1995 - Outcomes:  Documentation of essential findings and aftercare instructions, appropriate use of tests and medications … Healthcare Utilization:  No significant changes in the appropriateness of diagnostic tests and/or medications

210. Using Health Information Technology to Perform Medication Reconciliation - Findings from the AHRQ Health IT Portfolio (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2010 - providers and pharmacists to gather a complete and accurate list of a patient’s prescribed and home medications … at the point of care � Increase patient and clinician knowledge and communication about current medications … medication history and dosages in chronological order similar to an online “flowsheet,” (3) group medications … resistance or skepticism of the medication list’s accuracy, specialists performing reconciliation for medications … medication standards, and interoperability specifications are needed to facilitate reconciling of medications

211. Using Health Information Technology to Perform Medication Reconciliation (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/lesson/10-0051-ef-medication-reconciliation.pdf
     February 01, 2010 - providers and pharmacists to gather a complete and accurate list of a patient’s prescribed and home medications … at the point of care � Increase patient and clinician knowledge and communication about current medications … medication history and dosages in chronological order similar to an online “flowsheet,” (3) group medications … resistance or skepticism of the medication list’s accuracy, specialists performing reconciliation for medications … medication standards, and interoperability specifications are needed to facilitate reconciling of medications

212. RxSafe: Shared Medication Management and Decision Support for Rural Clinicians (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017102-gorman-final-report-2011.pdf
     January 01, 2011 - Clinicians used different categories when thinking about medications, depending on their task being … Management of medications in these settings is a distributed process. … In other cases, we observed that medications in a list had been rearranged and indentured in groups, … In these cases, the order of medications in the list had been modified, with indentation suggesting … Pharmacy students sorted medications according to indication but with a subtle difference – pairing

213. Using IT to Improve Medication Safety for Rural Elders (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/uc1hs014928-gorman-final-report-2008.pdf
     January 01, 2008 - 2 Abstract Purpose: Our goal was to get clinicians on the same page about their patients’ medications … When discontinued medications remain on the list being used to administer medications the potential … Direct users in the residential facility use RxSafe to clarify medications when patients return from … Surgeons use the RxSafe lists to order post-surgery discharge medications, and admitting physicians … , and a method for flagging duplicate medications in RxSafe to decrease effort.

214. Using Information Technology (IT) to Improve Medication Safety for Rural Elders | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - who are at greater risk for medication-related problems because of advanced age, frailty, high-risk medications … information about the patient's condition, medical history, services provided in other settings, or medications … information for patients, clinicians, pharmacists, and nurses who prescribe, dispense, or administer medications … medication errors and adverse effects by eliminating interactions, duplications, and inappropriate medications … Yet administering medications properly to patients in long-term care facilities is fraught with challenges

215. Medication Reconciliation to Improve Quality of Transitional Care (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/medication_reconciliation_to_improve_quality_of_transitional_care_2010_pdf__2.pdf
     January 01, 2010 - Providers are surveyed before and after the intervention regarding satisfaction with care, managing medications … , and usefulness of local information systems in managing medications. … technical changes to the application, including a necessary performance enhancement to speed entry of medications … survey 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.

216. Understanding CancelRX: Impact on Clinical Workflows, Medication Safety Risks, and Patient Outcomes | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - to a pharmacy that a prescription has been discontinued has not existed, resulting in discontinued medications … available to be dispensed to the patient, risking medication errors if the patient continues to take those medications … when prescriptions are reconciled from outside sources, or when a patient reports that they are taking medications … what was provided to them via the CancelRx standard, including the intent of the provider, a change in medications … Adoption of CancelRx and expanding its functionality to include medications from outside the EHR could

217. CancelRx: A Health IT Tool to Decrease Medication Discrepancies in the Outpatient Setting | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - Despite being removed from the EHR, these medications remain on the pharmacy’s list and can be dispensed … system, and assessed the effectiveness of decreasing ADEs by reducing the dispensing of discontinued medications … The team found that before the implementation of CancelRx, only 34 percent of medications that were canceled … Busy staff often overlook this notification step and, despite being removed from the EHR, medications … pressure pharmacists can feel as the “last line of defense” to detect and identify errors for patient medications

218. Development of an EMR-integrated Enhanced After-Visit Summary - Final Report (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs023844-federman-final-report-2017.pdf
     January 01, 2017 - Many wanted the purpose of medications stated. … Many patients said the AVS often listed incorrect or unfamiliar diagnoses or medications. … They said listed medications were often discontinued or were for short term use and no longer used. … The inaccuracies caused confusion for some patients about their health and medications. … Many clinicians wanted the purposes of medications and referrals added to the AVS.

219. Evaluating a Prediction Tool and Decision Aid for Patients with Crohn’s Disease - 2012 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/evaluating-prediction-tool-and-decision-aid-patients-crohns-disease/annual-summary/2012
     January 01, 2012 - However, these medications are associated with life-threatening infections and lymphoma. … challenge of treating Crohn’s disease is identifying patients who will develop severe disease and need medications

220. Preventing Wrong-Drug and Wrong-Patient Errors With Indication Alerts in CPOE Systems | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - Project Description Publications The use of indication alerts for medications … The specific aims of the research were as follows: Implement a set of 30-50 indication alerts for medications … Two healthcare organizations participated: New York Presbyterian (NYP) with 86 study medications and … Northwestern Medicine (NM) with 206 study medications.