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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/tools-optimizing-medication-safety-top-meds
January 01, 2023 - Safety
The US healthcare system has ongoing problems of underuse, overuse, and misuse of medications … For instance, medications with high risks, such as opioids, are frequently selected and dosed improperly … ; confusion around the names of medications may cause patients to receive the wrong drugs; and patient … information regarding medications is generally poorly designed and confusing, leading to unsafe use
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/evaluation-spread-and-scale-patienttoc-primary-care-community-pharmacy
March 31, 2024 - Theme
Medication Adherence
Patient-Reported Outcomes
Medication adherence--taking medications … individuals taking at least one regularly scheduled prescribed medication are non-adherent with their medications … information, and merely filling a prescription does not necessarily mean that an individual is taking their medications
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/health-information-technology-and-improving-medication-use/annual-summary/2012
January 01, 2012 - from electronic health record (EHR) data if they are experiencing adverse effects related to specific medications … Interactive voice response is linked to a patient EHR to monitor patients taking these medications by … without automated telephone outreach to patients on the use of antihypertensive and lipid-lowering medications … The tool led to small improvements in documentation of medications as compared to usual care practices
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/resource/Wolf_Q6_Med_List_1_27_09.pdf
June 16, 2021 - Your Current Medications Are
Medication Instructions Taking as directed … Please don’t worry if you have the exact spelling of your medications.
Step 4.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/sponsored-health-it-and-evidence-based-prescribing-among-medical-residents
January 01, 2023 - Failure to follow evidence-based prescribing (EBP)--the use of current evidence in prescribing medications … Direct marketing by pharmaceutical companies has been shown to impact how physicians prescribe medications
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/rxsafe-shared-medication-management-and-decision-support-rural-clinicians/annual-summary/2011
January 01, 2011 - The patient focus was on community-dwelling persons with chronic conditions on multiple medications. … integrate information for providers involved in prescribing, dispensing, administering, or monitoring medications … list items corresponded to experience level, with attending physicians recalling a median of 14 of 20 medications
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/electronic-prescribing-and-electronic-transmission-discharge-medication-lists/annual-summary/2011
January 01, 2011 - Cardiovascular drugs, gastrointestinal drugs, non-narcotic analgesics, and anti-coagulants were the classes of medications … The most common type of discrepancy detected was omitted medications. … Risk factors for medication errors and ADEs included taking 11 or more medications, having two or more
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017029-kaushal-final-report-2011.pdf
January 01, 2011 - preference lists (lists of frequently used orders) as well as order sets (pre-populated
groups of medications … This
discharge summary was a comprehensive document that included discharge medications in
addition … A trained physician researcher then performed pair-wise comparison using the patient-
reported medications … The number of medications on
each list and any discrepancies between the three lists were recorded. … The most common type of discrepancy that we
detected was omitted medications (73% of all total discrepancies
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/using-information-technology-patient-centered-communication-and-decisionmaking/citation/comparative
January 01, 2023 - Project Name
Using Information Technology for Patient-Centered Communication and Decisionmaking about Medications
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/medication-without-harm-qas-07242024.pdf
July 24, 2024 - We looked at a single characteristic, so
there may be some relationship between the types of medications … QUESTION: Did your study include quantifying safety events as a result of dispensing
discontinued medications … connection, but I do
think about how other systems are in place and other areas internationally around medications … One of the areas that we
saw as an opportunity for the EQUIPPED project is about renal dosing of medications … You may have seen that in our order set, we did try to do that with
a couple of medications just to
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/project-infocare
January 01, 2023 - following: t he EMR in 15 physician offices; the EMR in the CMH Emergency Department; bedside barcoding of medications … overridden); and for six of seven facilities with medication barcoding implemented, over 85 percent of medications
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-care-theme/patient-centered-care
January 01, 2023 - Kawamoto, Kensaku
Virtual Reality at the Point of Care to Increase Uptake of Medications … reality experience designed to increase patient willingness to engage in shared decision-making for medications
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/pediatric-resources/pediatric-documentation-templates/adhd-diagnosis-and-assessment
January 01, 2023 - current form, it is meant to be used by clinicians during a visit to review a patient’s ADHD symptoms and medications … Duration of Counseling : 15 minutes
Side effects : None
Follow-up visit : 6 months
Medications
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/goetz-goldberg-d-kuzel
January 01, 2023 - ambulatory visits, emergency visits, specialist visits, inpatient visits, connection with hospital EHR, medications … IT in place
All practices use EHRs to input ambulatory care progress notes, patient problem lists, medications
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/implementation-ddinteract-shared-decision-making-tool-anticoagulant-drug-drug
August 15, 2023 - Adverse Events
Patient Safety
Shared Decision Making
Patients receiving anticoagulant medications … often have additional comorbidities requiring other medications, which increases the risk of bleeding
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/using-information-technology-patient-centered-communication-and-decisionmaking/citation/impact
January 01, 2023 - Project Name
Using Information Technology for Patient-Centered Communication and Decisionmaking about 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/medicaid/ComprehensivePatientScenario.docx
June 16, 2021 - As the provider, demonstrate how to look at the most recent progress notes and current medications quickly … Demonstrate how medications and diagnoses on active medication and active problem list and updated without … how patient education handouts can be obtained and provided to the patient for various diagnoses and medications … Patients by medications for a recall
5. Number of appointments by provider, by date
6.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/meaningful-drug-interaction-alerts
February 28, 2023 - Publication
QTc prolongation with the use of hydroxychloroquine and concomitant arrhythmogenic medications … QTc prolongation with the use of hydroxychloroquine and concomitant arrhythmogenic medications: A retrospective … 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
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/p20hs015325-hartzema-final-report-2005.pdf
January 01, 2005 - Compounding of IV medications may also cause harm to the person who compounds the IV as a
number of … For security purposes, additional intentional barriers are placed in the access to medications. … Certain distributions, for example narcotic medications, can be tracked as to when, how, and by whom … For certain medications such as patient controlled analgesia medications, frequency of dosage request … checked and the total number of errors
flagged/total number of medications given.