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101. Patients taking their own medications while in the hospital. | PSNet
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     March 14, 2012 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Patients taking their own medications while in the hospital … Citation Text: Patients taking their own medications while in the hospital. … Discussing errors related to hospital patients' use of personal medications, this newsletter article … Cite Citation Citation Text: Patients taking their own medications

102. Maternal and Child Health Care: Care Coordination Measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2018 - Communication About Prescription Medications and Treatments From Other Doctors Children are at risk … ability and other factors. 26 Good medical practice includes asking patients about all their medications … Food and Drug Administration and others urge patients to tell health care providers about all their medications … . 28 Patients are urged tell health care providers about all their medications. 28 Health care systems … are trying strategies to better communicate with patients about medications other health care professionals

103. Cardiac Arrest in a Woman with UTI: A Case of QT Prolongation | PSNet
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     March 27, 2024 - She was severely volume depleted and received intravenous hydration, including her home medications, … A quick chart review revealed that the patient was receiving her multiple antipsychotic medications, … Ebong, MBBS, MS This case highlights how commonly prescribed medications can lead to serious adverse … interactions between the various medications that the patient was receiving.  … For high-risk QT prolonging medications (e.g.

104. Functional decline associated with polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medications in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. | PSNet
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     June 13, 2018 - Study Functional decline associated with polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medications … Functional decline associated with polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medications in community-dwelling … Elderly patients with dementia who were prescribed more than five medications were at greater risk of … However, prescribing potentially inappropriate medications (as determined by the Beers criteria ) was … in multimorbid US older adults using multiple medications.

105. Overview of Medications Used in the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder and Frequently Asked Questions (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2022 - ■ Most medications for AUD are easier to use than medications already being prescribed in primary … Prescribing medications for alcohol use is no more time-consuming than prescribing medications for … How long do patients stay on medications for AUD? … How much do medications for AUD cost? … ■ Just like with other medications, the price of medications for AUD can vary based on insurance coverage

106. Final Progress Report: Medication Management at Home: Patient-Identified Processes and Risk Assessment (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Medication Use Mean # Median # Medications (all) listed during screening 5.033 4 Medications (all … with the number of medications they brought to the interview, compared with the number of medications … These were relatively common, particularly for new medications, for medications with varying dosage … In general, prescription medications took priority over supplements and over-the-counter medications … Total at Interview 10 56 5-10 Medications Total at Interview 73 153 More Than 10 Medications Total

107. 137. Treatment Recommendations: Medications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Treatment Recommendations: Medications Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update Text

108. 153. Treatment Recommendations: Medications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Treatment Recommendations: Medications Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update Text

109. 147. Treatment Recommendations: Medications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Treatment Recommendations: Medications Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update Text

110. 134. Treatment Recommendations: Medications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Treatment Recommendations: Medications Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update Text

111. 140. Treatment Recommendations: Medications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Treatment Recommendations: Medications Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update Text

112. 131. Treatment Recommendations: Medications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Treatment Recommendations: Medications Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update Text

113. 144. Treatment Recommendations: Medications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Treatment Recommendations: Medications Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update Text

114. 160. Treatment Recommendations: Medications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Treatment Recommendations: Medications Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update Text

115. 150. Treatment Recommendations: Medications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Treatment Recommendations: Medications Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update Text

116. Using Information Technology for Patient-Centered Communication and Decisionmaking about Medications | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - Using Information Technology for Patient-Centered Communication and Decisionmaking about Medications … a patient is thought to be taking with medications they are actually taking. … However, they had less success reducing discrepancies related to having medications on the medication … list that are no longer being taken, and the lack of non-prescription medications on the list. … Can electronic health records help improve patients' understanding of medications?

117. Less is more: a project to reduce the number of PIMs (potentially inappropriate medications) on an elderly care ward. | PSNet
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     September 27, 2017 - Less is more: a project to reduce the number of PIMs (potentially inappropriate medications … Less is more: a project to reduce the number of PIMs (potentially inappropriate medications) on an elderly … prescribed in a unit, educate and raise awareness about the medications among health care workers, and … remove the medications from the ward. … August 15, 2013 Potentially inappropriate medications in a large cohort of patients in

118. Misreading injectable medications—causes and solutions: an integrative literature review. | PSNet
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     May 04, 2010 - Review Misreading injectable medications—causes and solutions: an integrative literature … Misreading injectable medications—causes and solutions: an integrative literature review. … this integrative literature review, the authors discuss the evidence on how misreading injectable medications … can contribute to medication errors and whether interventions to increase the readability of these medications … Misreading injectable medications—causes and solutions: an integrative literature review.

119. Assessing the Availability of the Preconception Component of High-Risk Obstetrical Services by Estimating the Use of Teratogenic Medications Before and During Pregnancy (pdf file)
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     August 07, 2018 - Both FDA Category D and X medications are considered potentially teratogenic because category D medications … or pregnant women exposed to category D medications. … Certain medications increase the risk of having a birth defect. … Our list of teratogenic medications includes FDA pregnancy category system (Class X) medications, which … of these medications in this measure as Class D medications are more likely to be used appropriately

120. Four Missouri Hospitals Use AHRQ Toolkit to Improve Medication Reconciliation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - learning sessions and provider support calls focusing on implementation of the AHRQ-funded toolkit, Medications … goal of the MATCH toolkit is to decrease the number of patients who receive potentially conflicting medications … Baseline findings demonstrated that the medications listed in physicians' discharge summaries and medications … In a 6-month period, unreconciled medications improved by 4.6 percent; admissions with unreconciled medications … improved by 13.6 percent; and unreconciled medications per 100 admissions improved by 36.5 percent.