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41. Use the Teach-Back Method: Tool 5 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - Patients Remember How and When to Take Their Medicine: Tool 16 Medicine Reminder Form Help With Medicines … Social Needs Help Patients Pay Less for Medicine: Tool 19 Resources for Financial Assistance for Medicines … When prescribing new medicines or changing a dose, research shows that even when patients correctly say … what is required of them at the next visit, such as arrival time, insurance documentation, bringing medicines

42. Diagnosis & Treatment | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2018 - Treatment Information for patients and consumers about getting diagnosed, having surgery, taking medicines … Next Steps After Your Diagnosis   Medicines Learn about taking medicine safely How To Create

43. Staying Active and Healthy with Blood Thinners - Transcript | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2015 - Home Patients & Consumers Diagnosis & Treatment Taking Medicines … Like most medicines, blood thinner pills can have side effects. … It is important to tell each of your clinicians about the medicines you are taking or want to take. … This includes all medicines that other doctors prescribe or ones that you might buy over the counter

44. Medication Management: Sample Process for Medication Management Strategy (pdf file)
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    January 12, 2017 - Using the Medication List form, go through the over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal medicines … this process until you have a complete list of all over-the-counter medications, vitamins, and herbal medicines … ■ Possible interactions with other medications or over-the-counter medicines. ■ Overdoses.

45. Teach-Back Teach-Back Teach-Back: Role Play Scenarios (pdf file)
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    April 05, 2018 - Santiago is feeling overwhelmed by her current health status and her new medicines. … She can’t pronounce any of the medicines and doesn’t know what they do. … Santiago wants to know how to properly pronounce each of her medicines and to know its purpose because … she believes this will help her make these medicines a part of her new routine … Santiago is unaware of systems to organize medicines such as pill boxes or blister packs from pharmacies

46. Sample Automated Telephone System Menu | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - Patients Remember How and When to Take Their Medicine: Tool 16 Medicine Reminder Form Help With Medicines … Social Needs Help Patients Pay Less for Medicine: Tool 19 Resources for Financial Assistance for Medicines

47. Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2020 - Learn to prevent medical errors that can occur anywhere in the health care system and can involve medicines … (with wallet card) Answer common questions about getting and taking medicines and track information

48. Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, Third Edition (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2024 - Track Your Progress Overview Identify medicines patients should bring. … Remind patients to bring all medicines. Prepare for the review. Perform the review. … Assess patients' ability to pay for their medicines. … Help patients find financial assistance or less expensive medicines. … Do you have trouble remembering to take your medicines?

49. Strategy 4: IDEA Discharge Planning (Tool 1) (doc file)
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    January 01, 2010 - day Involve the patient and family in bedside shift report or bedside rounds Share a written list of medicines … every morning Go over medicines at each administration: What it is for, how much to take, how to take … Who: All clinical staff Explain medicines to the patient and family (for example, print out a list every … medicine is for, describe potential side effects, and make sure the patient knows about any changes in the medicines … Go over the list of current medicines.

50. Strategy 4: IDEA Discharge Planning (Tool 1) (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2010 - Involve the patient and family in bedside shift report or bedside rounds • Share a written list of medicines … every morning • Go over medicines at each administration: What it is for, how much to take, how … Who: All clinical staff  Explain medicines to the patient and family (for example, print out a list … is for, describe potential side effects, and make sure the patient knows about any changes in the medicines … Go over the list of current medicines.

51. Engaging Patients and Families in Their Health Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2023 - educates people about blood thinners and offers basic information about the medication; tips on diet, medicines … How To Create a My Medicines List Step-by-step instructions to create a medicines list to remind patients

52. The Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2018 - non-oral medications such as injections, inhalers, ointments, and drops, as well as medicines they … prescribed to patients taking five or more medicines are not needed, are contraindicated, or are not … However, by ensuring you have a complete and accurate understanding of the medicines your patients … script helped encourage and reinforce the need for patients to bring in their medicines. … , and to create the medicine list if the patient has not brought in the medicines.

53. Consumer Reports Uses AHRQ’s Evidence Reports in Drug Comparisons | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2016 - "With Alzheimer's disease, people are desperate, and doctors are prescribing medicines even though the … Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs reports on diabetes medicines, anticoagulants, and allergy medications

54. Child Hospital Survey (pdf file)
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    May 12, 2016 - During the first day of this hospital stay, were you asked to list or review all of the prescription medicines … the first day of this hospital stay, were you asked to list or review all of the vitamins, herbal medicines … , and over-the- counter medicines your child was taking at home? … hospital pharmacist explain in a way that was easy to understand how your child should take these new medicines … pharmacist explain in a way that was easy to understand about possible side effects of these new medicines

55. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Tool 3) (doc file)
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    February 10, 2011 - They give you medicines, take care of your wounds, and make sure everything is going okay. … They give you medicines and take your blood pressure, heart rate, and temperature.

56. Resources for Women’s Health | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2018 - Patient Treatment Summaries Comparing Talk Therapy and Other Depression Treatments With Antidepressant Medicines … Managing Insomnia Disorder Medicines To Treat Alcohol Use Disorder Treating Binge-Eating Disorder … Knowing which screening tests are needed and when to get them, which medicines may prevent diseases,

57. Your Guide to Preventing and Treating Blood Clots | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2017 - Take all medicines the doctor prescribes you. Stay active! … Tell them the medicines you are taking. … Another name for medicine that prevents blood from clotting Coumadin®/warfarin, heparin Types of medicines

58. AHRQ’s RED Toolkit Inspires Improved Patient Discharge at Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2015 - By designating discharge advocates who help patients reconcile their medicines and schedule follow-up … The hospital also provides discharged patients in need with certain medicines and transportation to two

59. Ten Attributes of Health Literate Health Care Organizations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - Addresses health literacy in high-risk situations, including care transitions and communications about medicines … Addresses health literacy in high-risk situations, including care transitions and communications about medicines … Whole-Person Transitional Care: The Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions How To Create a My Medicines

60. Innovative Diffusion of Comparative Effectiveness Research (pdf file)
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    September 29, 2013 - pharmacy and therapeutics (P&T) committees at hospitals and health plans and make decisions about which medicines