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21. Medication Errors | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    February 01, 2024 - Don't take medications prescribed for someone else.

22. Vaginal Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    Doctors prescribed DES in the 1950's to prevent miscarriages.

23. Misuse of Prescription Stimulants in Adults | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    February 01, 2025 - Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) describes misuse as: “taking a medication in a manner or dose other than prescribed … This rapid review will focus on misuse of stimulants usually prescribed for ADHD. … medication or (2) who do not have an ADHD diagnosis Children under age 18; adults using ADHD medications as prescribed … work performance Weight loss Recreational (“party”) Other, specify________________ Source of stimulant Prescribed

24. Pregnancy | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    March 30, 2009 - Some medicines can also be a problem, even ones that a doctor prescribed.

25. First- and Second-Generation Antipsychotics in Children and Young Adults: Systematic Review Update | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    April 01, 2020 - SGAs probably improve to some extent symptoms for which they are usually prescribed, but also cause adverse … Conclusion SGAs probably improve to some extent key intermediate outcomes for which they are usually prescribed

26. What evidence exists for programs to increase patient adherence to prescription medications? Which programs/approaches are most effective at increasing adherence for which populations and conditions? If little or no evidence exists, can… | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    November 01, 2017 - Failure to take prescribed medications impacts research and the ultimate availability of evidence, let … approaches that are currently being used to encourage (and measure) how patients are following their prescribed

27. App-D-Opioid-Chronic-Pain-Surveill-Report-1 (xls file)
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    September 30, 2015 - Pain > 3 months, currently prescribed opioids; excluded cancer and end-of-life treatment A. … B Opioid misuse behaviors (using more than prescribed, using more often then prescribed, early refills … of at least 50 morphine milligram equivalents; excluded cancer, hospice, palliative care, and those prescribed

28. Urinary Incontinence | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    September 14, 2018 - It may include simple exercises, medicines, special devices or procedures prescribed by your doctor,

29. Diabetes | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    January 01, 2005 - You should also monitor your blood glucose level and take medicine if prescribed.

30. App-D-Opioid-Chronic-Pain-Surveillance-Report-2 (xls file)
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    September 30, 2015 - Pain > 3 months, currently prescribed opioids; excluded cancer and end-of-life treatment A. … B Opioid misuse behaviors (using more than prescribed, using more often then prescribed, early refills … of at least 50 morphine milligram equivalents Exclusion: cancer, hospice, palliative care, and those prescribed

31. Mental Disorders | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    January 01, 2005 - 2005 A Multicenter, Observational Cohort Study to Assess the Cardiovascular Risks of Medications Prescribed

32. Summary Variables in Observational Research: Propensity Scores and Disease Risk Scores | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    January 01, 2019 - Since statins are prescribed to reduce LDL levels, people who receive statins tend to have higher LDL … rosuvastatin would tend to have even higher baseline LDL levels than those prescribed other statins. … If rosuvastatin tends to be prescribed to people who have a higher underlying risk of rhabdomyolysis, … For example, if the last patient prescribed rosuvastatin by the clinician developed rhabdomyolysis, then … These databases include records of prescribed medications and encounters with medical care providers

33. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Opioid Stewardship | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2023 - Opioid stewardship interventions promote the appropriate use of prescribed and ordered opioids to reduce

34. Health Insurance | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    January 01, 2005 - 2005 A Multicenter, Observational Cohort Study to Assess the Cardiovascular Risks of Medications Prescribed

35. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2011 - Which cough therapies should be prescribed for a cough (per population, cough severity, cough etiology

36. Topic-Brief2-Opioid-Withdrawal (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2021 - individuals with pain entitled to Medicare benefits, resulting in an expanded population of patients prescribed … other individuals entitled to Medicare benefits, resulting in an expanded population of patients prescribed … In patients prescribed long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain, what are the effects of treatments … Effects in subgroups Population Patients prescribed long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain and … Trends and rapidity of dose tapering among patients prescribed long-term opioid therapy, 2008- 2017

37. Interventions To Improve Antibiotic Prescribing for Uncomplicated Acute Respiratory Tract Infections | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - Skip to main content An official website of the Department of Health & Human Services Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Effective Health Care Program Powered by the Evidence-based Practice Centers …

38. Antibiotics-Respiratory-Infection Executive (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2016 - National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys found that in the period 2007−09, antibiotics were prescribed … outpatient offices and emergency departments (EDs) for acute bronchitis found that antibiotics were prescribed … Surveys indicated that 60 percent of children diagnosed with pharyngitis from 1997 through 2010 were prescribed … Similarly, very few studies measured actual use of prescribed antibiotics, and even fewer studies reported … education alone, there was no difference between groups in the proportion of antibiotics that were prescribed

39. Developing Evidence-Based Research Priorities for Off-Label Drug Use | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    June 01, 2020 - approval for an indication is given, however, the FDA has a minimal role in determining whether drugs are prescribed … assessment of pharmaceutical utilization generally, is the availability of evidence that relates a prescribed … Currently, physicians are not required to document the indication for which a drug is prescribed. … Future recording of a diagnosis for each drug prescribed is likely to be increasingly useful and feasible … Conclusion Future research into off label drug use should focus on drugs currently being prescribed

40. Diabetes and Pregnancy | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    June 05, 2014 - your pregnancy A safe exercise plan How often to test your blood sugar Taking your medicine as prescribed