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61. Medication Reconciliation Technology to Improve Quality of Transitional Care - Final Report (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2013 - of reconciled medications could be used directly to order inpatient medications. … • Reasons for not prescribing outpatient medications. … and the follow-up medications. … information systems in managing medications. … Over-the-counter medications need to be included.

62. Pharmaceutical Safety Tracking (PhaST): Managing Medications for Patient Safety (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017258-gardner-final-report-2010.pdf
    January 01, 2010 - Pharmaceutical Safety Tracking (PhaST): Managing Medications for Patient Safety Grant Final Report … Grant ID: 1 R18 HS017258-01 Pharmaceutical Safety Tracking (PhaST): Managing Medications for … Final Report Purpose PhaST is a health information system that assists clinicians’ management of medications … The growing use of psychoactive medications in children and adolescents has greatly increased the public … risks, authors concluded evidence “supports the cautious and well-monitored use of antidepressant medications

63. Electronic Medication Adherence Reporting and Feedback During Care Transitions - Final Report (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs024587-schnipper-final-report-2019.pdf
    January 01, 2019 - Non- oral medications (e.g., inhalers, nasal sprays, injectables), as-needed (PRN) medications, and opioids … X/N, where N would be the number of medications in the regimen and X would be the number of those medications … pillbox (e.g., non-oral medications, controlled substances, as needed medications, medications at risk … medications. … Measuring concurrent adherence to multiple related medications.

64. Virtual Pharmacy Improves Medication Use and Patient Safety in Palliative Care | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - While this care does not focus on treatment, palliative care patients are often on many medications. … example, sleep may improve after a person moves from an inpatient facility to his or her home, yet medications … Being on many medications puts patients at high risk of adverse drug-drug interactions (DDIs), the fifth-leading … Some of our patients are on 20 different medications.” … and pain medications?’

65. Improving Post-Hospital Medication Management of Older Adults with Health Information Technology | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - During care transitions, patients receive medications from different prescribers who often lack access … Factors associated with ordering laboratory monitoring of high-risk medications. … events after hospital discharge in older adults: types, severity, and involvement of Beers Criteria Medications … Baseline and follow-up laboratory monitoring of cardiovascular medications. … Development and pilot testing of guidelines to monitor high-risk medications in the ambulatory setting

66. PHR Focus Group Questions for Older Adults (pdf file)
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    September 21, 2016 - How do you keep a list of the medications that you share with all healthcare providers? b. … When I say “monitor the goals for each of the medications?”…what does that mean to you? … are working for you versus monitoring the effects of medications versus monitoring the goals of medications … do you manage your medications?” … Medications or medication list ii. Medical conditions iii. Allergies iv.

67. Text Messaging to Improve Hypertension Medication Adherence in African Americans - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2011 - Despite evidence that hypertension medications can reduce the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke … feedback in 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

68. A Decision Support Tool for the Discontinuation of Disease Modifying Therapies in Multiple Sclerosis | Digital Healthcare Research
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    August 01, 2023 - has the potential to reduce the risk incurred and the financial burden of those patients using these medications … These medications prevent the accumulation of lesions, relapses, and disability. … without relapses or new lesions have a low risk of new lesions or inflammatory disease activity if these medications … standardized approach clinicians can use to guide their discussions with patients around discontinuing their medications … when to recommend MS DMT discontinuation, reducing the risk incurred and financial burden of those medications

69. Field, Terry | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - to Home Factors associated with ordering laboratory monitoring of high-risk medications … Factors associated with ordering laboratory monitoring of high-risk medications. … Development and pilot testing of guidelines to monitor high-risk medications in the ambulatory setting … SNF) to Home Baseline and follow-up laboratory monitoring of cardiovascular medications … Baseline and follow-up laboratory monitoring of cardiovascular medications.

70. Electronic Medication Adherence Reporting and Feedback During Care Transitions | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Adherence Medication Management Transitions in Care Patients often have issues with their medications … pillbox with prefilled weekly medication trays that can alert patients when it is time to take their medications … team evaluated the effects of this smart pillbox intervention both on patients’ ability to take their medications … Two hundred and seven patients being discharged from a hospital and taking five or more chronic medications

71. Slide 1 (ppt file)
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    December 08, 2004 - clinicians The scope of patient report Symptoms Illness specific Guideline specific Current medications … Previous reactions to medications Current disease management practice Unmet needs Ideal flow … Allergies to medications Immunization history Specific disease states Asthma Appendicitis Specific … not on a controller should be prescribed one Identify persistent asthma symptoms Identify current medications … Current symptoms and medications and recommended actions 1 ) Chronic severity for asthma : moderate

72. Using Information Technology for Patient-Centered Communication and Decisionmaking about Medications (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2011 - Using Information Technology for Patient-Centered Communication and Decisionmaking about Medications … 1 | Using information technology for Patient-centered commUnication and decisionmaking aboUt medications … it (r18) Using Information Technology for Patient-Centered Communication and Decisionmaking about Medications … The overarching objective of this multicomponent intervention was to develop a protocol to reconcile medications … to help patients understand the importance of both giving and receiving accurate information about medications

73. AHRQ Presentation: Billings Care Transitions (pdf file)
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    September 29, 2011 - Report 9.9% Proportion Medications Unreconciled on Patient Discharge List 15.1% Proportion Medications … Unreconciled on EHR 30.5% Proportion Medications Incorrect Across the Board 38.5% Per Patient (n=37 … ): Mean Number Medications per patient 13 (range 1-23) Proportion Medications Incorrect by Patient Report … (per patient) 13.0% Proportion Medications Unreconciled on Patient Discharge List (per patient) 17.0% … Proportion Medications Unreconciled on EHR (per patient) 30.4% Proportion Medications Incorrect Across

74. Integration of an NLP-based Application to Support Medication Management - Final Report (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs021544-zhou-final-report-2014.pdf
    January 01, 2014 - Medications, and Possible Discontinued Medications (Figure 4). … “Possible Missing Medications” list presents medications that the patient may be taking, but which are … “Possible Discontinued Medications” list presents medications documented in LMR, which the patient may … “Inactive Medications Found in Notes” list presents medications that are currently discontinued from … or add missing medications.

75. Medication Without Harm: How Digital Healthcare Tools Can Support Providers and Improve Patient Safety (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/medication-without-harm-slides-07242024.pdf
    January 12, 2025 - • Identified medications in the EHR that were e-prescribed from a Johns Hopkins ambulatory practice … Medications Prescribed Outside of the Local EHR Medications prescribed outside of the local provider … Conclusions • Cancel Rx implementation was associated with reduced pharmacy dispensing of medications … Change in PIM proportion: » Total PIMs / All discharge medications prescribed to patients aged 65+ … Total Orders Cancelled Reordered Overall 21,401,986 385,965 112,144 Medications 5,462,029 259,171

76. Electronic Medication Management | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Medication reconciliation employs a systematic approach to reviewing the medications a patient is taking … Before adoption, pre-admission and discharge medications were kept as free-form text in the patient's … After adoption, medications were documented using the Outpatient Medication Profile (OMP), a structured … Before the electronic medication reconciliation process was adopted, the average number of medications … Of 253 medications lists reviewed, 181 lists (72 percent) had a discrepancy including at least one medication

77. Improving Care Transitions of Hospitalized Patients With the Pharmacy Integrated Transitions Program | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/2020-year-review/research-summary/improving-care-transitions-hospitalized-patients-pharmacy-integrated-transitions-program
    January 01, 2020 - 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

78. Pharmaceutical Safety Tracking (PhaST): Managing Medications for Patient Safety - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/pharmaceutical-safety-tracking-phast-managing-medications-patient-safety/annual-summary/2010
    January 01, 2010 - Pharmaceutical Safety Tracking (PhaST): Managing Medications for Patient Safety - 2010 … Project Name Pharmaceutical Safety Tracking (PhaST): Managing Medications for Patient Safety … Pharmaceutical Safety Tracking (PhaST) is a health information system that assists clinicians’ management of medications … PhaST seeks to protect outpatients taking medications that have recognized side-effect risks even when … The target medications for this project are pediatric antidepressants.

79. Lesselroth BJ, Felder RS, Adams SM, et al. "Design and implementation of a medication reconciliation kiosk: the Automated Patient History Intake Device (APHID)." | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - ambulatory check-in kiosks that allow patients to review the names, dosage, frequency, and pictures of their medications … Health IT Functions The APHID also runs a medication history module for patients to review their medications … However, many felt that the volume of medications to review and formatting of medication lists made it … Not all providers reviewed medications and only a few clinics used paper handouts or memory aids. … Overall, clinics lacked a clearly defined pathway to reconcile medications and most providers believed

80. A Little History Using IT to Improve Medication Safety for Rural Elders (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/medication-management-in-long-term-care-the-rxsafe-project.pdf
    July 02, 2015 - Project Paul Gorman, MD Oregon Health & Science University funded by AHRQ THQIT and AQS awards Medications … They take a lot of medications Ms. … Medications in long term care – some observations 1. They take a lot of medications 2. … Medications in long term care – some observations 1. They take a lot of medications 2. … They take a lot of medications 2.