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161. Improving emergency medicine clinician awareness of prehospital-administered medications. | PSNet
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     October 19, 2022 - Study Improving emergency medicine clinician awareness of prehospital-administered medications … Improving emergency medicine clinician awareness of prehospital-administered medications. … Improving emergency medicine clinician awareness of prehospital-administered medications.

162. Enabling Electronic Prescribing and Enhanced Management of Controlled Medications | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - Enabling Electronic Prescribing and Enhanced Management of Controlled Medications … Enabling Electronic Prescribing and Enhanced Management of Controlled Medications - 2012 Enabling … Electronic Prescribing and Enhanced Management of Controlled Medications - 2011 Enabling Electronic … Prescribing and Enhanced Management of Controlled Medications - 2010 × Disclaimer … Enabling Electronic Prescribing and Enhanced Management of Controlled Medications - Final Report.

163. Appendix, Data Collection Strategy, Assessment, and Process Evaluation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2022 - Medications at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) Toolkit for Medication Reconciliation Appendix … Strategy, Assessment, and Process Evaluation Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Medications … If a patient will be provided/given any medications while under our care or prescribed any new drugs … Identify that the complete and updated list of medications was then provided to the patient at discharge … List of home medications collected was available for the caregivers to review prior initiating care.

164. Appendix, Data Collection Strategy, Assessment, and Process Evaluation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2022 - Medications at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) Toolkit for Medication Reconciliation Appendix … Strategy, Assessment, and Process Evaluation Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Medications … If a patient will be provided/given any medications while under our care or prescribed any new drugs … Identify that the complete and updated list of medications was then provided to the patient at discharge … List of home medications collected was available for the caregivers to review prior initiating care.

165. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 9. Reducing Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2020 - in PRN (as needed) medications, and a significant decrease in the number of medications per patient … of scheduled medications from 11.3 to 10.99 (p<0.001), average number of PRN medications from 5.33 … Not provided Intervention led to decrease in the number of medications per patient. … Not provided Intervention led to a decrease in number of inappropriate medications filled. … medications, and high-risk medications per patient.

166. Final Progress Report: Risk-Informed Intervention to Improve Ambulatory Drug Monitoring and Safety (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - to increasing therapeutic monitoring of high-risk medications. … Development of guidelines for laboratory monitoring of high-risk medications. … testing for these medications among a multispecialty group practice. … Baseline and follow-up laboratory monitoring of cardiovascular medications. … Laboratory safety monitoring of chronic medications in ambulatory care settings.

167. Section 6B (pdf file)
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     June 02, 2025 - in Emergency Room .45 .05 .09 .11 .38 .25 .17 -.06 .55 Q4 Asked about child’s prescription medications … .03 .14 .12 -.13 .05 .75*** .16 .00 .36 Q5 Asked about child’s over- the-counter medications … care after discharge .29 .08 .64*** .23 .18 -.13 -.20 -.11 .35 Q39 Side effects of discharge medications … .43 Q5 Asked about child’s over-the-counter medications .62 Q38 Provider explained how to take discharge … medications .51 Q39 Side effects of discharge medications explained .53 Informed about child’s

168. What happens to the medication regimens of older adults during and after an acute hospitalization? | PSNet
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     May 19, 2021 - discharged from the medical service at a teaching hospital found that, on average, patients had two new medications … started at discharge, and among their chronic medications had one discontinued and one dosage changed … However, 3 days after discharge, patients had reverted to taking their chronic medications as previously … prescribed and had discontinued taking a significant proportion of new medications. … December 29, 2014 Prescription and transcription errors in multidose-dispensed medications

169. Over-the-Counter Oversight | PSNet
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     March 21, 2009 - During the preoperative visit, the patient's prescription medications were reviewed and updated in his … asked about medications purchased over the counter. … One study reported that 27% of patients incorrectly continued or discontinued one or more medications … , over-the-counter medications, vitamins, and supplements. … Medications at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) Toolkit for Medication Reconciliation.

170. Wrong-Time Error With High-Alert Medication | PSNet
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     February 01, 2014 - The Commentary by Annie Yang, PharmD, and Lewis Nelson, MD Although all medications carry risk of … patient harm when used in error, some medications are riskier than others. … These are known as high-alert medications. … , with a particular focus on high-alert medications. … "( 9 ) Medications requiring administration separate from other medications or certain designated premedications

171. Practice Asthma Data Collection Form (pdf file)
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     May 21, 2019 - Beta 2 agonist Leukotriene modifier Unknown Other None 3a Additional comments: 3b Other medications … No 4a If yes, please check all the medications that were Albuterol (Proair, Ventolin, Proventil) prescribed … Yes No 15a If yes, which controller medications were prescribed? … 15f Please list the date the controller medications (other) were prescribed _____________________ … No Unknown 22a Is the patient currently taking medications Yes (prescribed or OTC) for environmental

172. Pharmaceutical Safety Tracking (PhaST): Managing Medications for Patient Safety | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - Pharmaceutical Safety Tracking (PhaST): Managing Medications for Patient Safety Project … The use of these medications in this group has grown as significant benefits have been recognized. … Pharmaceutical Safety Tracking (PhaST): Managing Medications for Patient Safety - 2011 Pharmaceutical … Safety Tracking (PhaST): Managing Medications for Patient Safety - 2010 × Disclaimer … Pharmaceutical Safety Tracking (PhaST): Managing Medications for Patient Safety - Final Report.

173. Quick Start Guide to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder | The Academy
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     January 01, 2021 - What Medications are Used to Treat Opioid Use Disorder? … The table below summarizes medications used to treat OUD. … The PCSS Medications for Opioid Use Disorder program. … Medications for Opioid Use Disorder. NIDA. 2025. … TIP 63: Medications for Opioid Use Disorder . SAMHSA; 2021.

174. Final Progress Report: A Memory-Based Approach to Reducing Medication Errors (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Preparing medications (lower priority) 1. … What is your workflow when gathering medications from the Pyxis vs. medications directly from the … Administering medications 1. … Are there certain medications that tend to be given one time? k. … Monitoring the effect of medications (lower priority) 9.

175. Vermont Health Clinics Promote AHRQ’s Medication Safety Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2020 - Learning that patients didn't fully understand which medications they should be taking or understand … Boardman noted that having all patients' medications available at the visit allows clinical staff to … verify that patients are taking the right medications, learn whether they're taking them correctly, and … find out if they're taking supplements or vitamins that may interact with medications. … Besides, she said, on the whole, engaging patients in conversations about how to take their medications

176. When the Meds Don’t Reach the Bed | PSNet
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     May 16, 2022 - Given the patient’s inability to pay for the discharge medications, the social worker on the discharge … planning team sent a voucher to cover the cost of medications to the commercial pharmacy around 11:00 … Scheduled transport arrived at 4:00pm and the patient was discharged without his medications. … Unfortunately, he had been unable to relieve these symptoms with the medications he had available at … Evaluation of Bedside Delivery of Medications Before Discharge: Effect on 30-Day Readmission.

177. Enhancing high alert medication knowledge among pharmacy, nursing, and medical staff. | PSNet
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     December 15, 2021 - High-alert medications have the potential to cause serious patient harm . … After implementation of an intervention to enhance staff knowledge of high-alert medications, confidence … significantly increased, and most respondents could correctly identify high alert medications and associated … April 3, 2024 Preventing errors when preparing and administering medications via enteral … December 22, 2021 Harm prevalence due to medication errors involving high-alert medications

178. Communication relating to family members' involvement and understandings about patients' medication management in hospital. | PSNet
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     June 16, 2021 - Polypharmacy , or taking multiple medications, is a risk factor for adverse drug events . … family members participated in medication management for hospitalized patients taking five or more medications … engage in discussions with family members as they can know important information regarding patients' medications … November 6, 2015 Family involvement in managing medications of older patients across … November 21, 2016 Family-initiated dialogue about medications during family-centered

179. CDC guideline for prescribing opioids for chronic pain—United States, 2016. | PSNet
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     June 14, 2019 - Opioid pain medications carry high risk for adverse drug events and misuse . … events, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines for prescribing opioid medications … The authors recommend using opioids for chronic pain only if nonopioid medications and nonpharmacologic … For acute pain, they recommend limiting duration of therapy, stating that more than 1 week of medications … The guidelines also suggest minimizing concurrent use of opioids and other sedating medications and dispensing

180. Final Progress Report: Pediatric Medication Safety: Analyses from the MEDMARX Medication Error Reporting System (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Results: Across the five sub-projects (ADHD medications, cardiovascular medications, vaccines, antidepressants … These analyses serve as a tool to identify areas and medications in need of targeted interventions … In total, 342 different medications were identified by the error reports. … Seventy-seven percent involved medications being used off label. … Our results likely reflect the frequent use of these medications in the NICU.