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  1. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)

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    September 01, 2016 - (2) At a recent outpatient visit, she had been diagnosed with Alzheimer dementia for which she was prescribed … coronary artery disease, simvastatin for hyperlipidemia, escitalopram for depression, and the newly prescribed … medication—donepezil—was not in any of the pill slots because the patient's daughter was unaware that it had been prescribed … Presence of multiple comorbidities Identified as "frail" by health care providers Polypharmacy (i.e., prescribed … also been shown to decrease hospital admissions and reduce Number of medications Cost of medications prescribed

  2. Inappropriate prescribing of opioids for patients undergoing surgery. | PSNet

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    June 30, 2021 - prescribing dictates that prescriptions should only be written for the patients who are intended to use the prescribed

  3. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    August 02, 2023 - hospitalization-due-adverse-drug-events-older-adults-cancer-retrospective- analysis Older adults with cancer are typically prescribed

  4. CDC guideline for opioid prescribing associated with reduced dispensing to certain patients with chronic pain. | PSNet

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    October 13, 2018 - guidelines was associated with reductions in the percentage of patients receiving opioids, average dose prescribed

  5. How often do prescribers include indications in drug orders? Analysis of 4 million outpatient prescriptions. | PSNet

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    May 01, 2019 - A common scenario is one in which a patient is prescribed multiple medications , does not know what

  6. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    July 18, 2016 - health center, medication reviews by pharmacists helped improve appropriate monitoring of patients prescribed

  7. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    May 24, 2015 - discharge from an inpatient medical service and discovered that the majority were aware of new medications prescribed

  8. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    December 15, 2011 - medication-errors-important-component-nonadherence-medication-outpatient- population-lung Unintentional medication errors, including taking the prescribed

  9. The epidemiology of prescribing errors: the potential impact of computerized prescriber order entry. | PSNet

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    May 04, 2010 - Study The epidemiology of prescribing errors: the potential impact of computerized prescriber order entry. Citation Text: Bobb A, Gleason KM, Husch M, et al. The epidemiology of prescribing errors: the potential impact of computerized prescriber order entry. Arch Intern Med. 2004;164(7…

  10. Direct Oral Anticoagulants are High-Risk Medications with Potentially Complex Dosing | PSNet

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    August 21, 2005 - as opposed to the prescription label, the patient reported taking 15 mg twice daily for 19 days (as prescribed … White, MD  This patient was prescribed rivaroxaban to prevent arterial re-thrombosis following thrombolysis … The prescribed dosing of rivaroxaban was the package insert recommendation for the treatment of  acute … For patients with a CrCl <15 ml/min, rivaroxaban should not be prescribed. 1  Rivaroxaban does have an … When a DOAC is prescribed for initial VTE treatment, higher doses may be given initially (e.g., for the

  11. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    April 12, 2019 - intervention changed prescribing habits but did not reduce the already low overall number of tablets prescribed

  12. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    March 24, 2021 - education-and-training-nurses-use-advanced-medical-technologies-home-care-related-patient https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/discrepancies-between-prescribed-and-actual-pediatric-home-parenteral-nutrition-solutions

  13. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/48181/psn-pdf
    August 07, 2019 - monitoring than warfarin, they are still associated with an increased risk of patient harm if not prescribed

  14. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    November 28, 2018 - Mass spectrometry testing revealed discrepancies between medications listed as prescribed in the electronic

  15. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    November 07, 2018 - defining-minimum-necessary-anticoagulation-related-communication- discharge-consensus-care Patients prescribed

  16. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    December 07, 2022 - systems over a one-month period found that only one-third to one-half of discontinued medications were e-prescribed

  17. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/72568/psn-pdf
    January 01, 2021 - Findings indicate that these three approaches can decrease the amount of opioids prescribed in an acute

  18. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    January 17, 2024 - https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/association-dose-tapering-overdose-or-mental-health-crisis-among-patients-prescribed-long

  19. Prescribing safely for children. | PSNet

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    September 03, 2014 - Review Prescribing safely for children. Citation Text: Sinha Y, Cranswick NE. Prescribing safely for children. J Paediatr Child Health. 2007;43(3):112-6. Copy Citation Format: Google Scholar PubMed BibTeX EndNote X3 XML EndNote 7 XML Endnote tagged PubMedId RIS …

  20. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    January 18, 2017 - https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/mandatory-provider-review-and-pain-clinic-laws-reduce-amounts-opioids-prescribed-and-overdose
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