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341. Progress Made Towards Improving Opioid Safety, But Further Efforts to Assess Progress and Reduce Risk Are Needed. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/progress-made-towards-improving-opioid-safety-further-efforts-assess-progress-and-reduce-risk
     May 16, 2018 - Ineffectively prescribed opioids contribute to opioid misuse and overdose among patients.

342. Randomized trial to improve prescribing safety in ambulatory elderly patients. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/randomized-trial-improve-prescribing-safety-ambulatory-elderly-patients
     March 10, 2011 - randomized trial of computerized alerts to pharmacists when potentially dangerous medications were prescribed

343. How often do prescribers include indications in drug orders? Analysis of 4 million outpatient prescriptions. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/how-often-do-prescribers-include-indications-drug-orders-analysis-4-million-outpatient
     May 01, 2019 - A common scenario is one in which a patient is prescribed multiple medications , does not know what

344. Opioid prescribing after nonfatal overdose and association with repeated overdose: a cohort study. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/opioid-prescribing-after-nonfatal-overdose-and-association-repeated-overdose-cohort-study
     January 23, 2019 - More than 90% of patients were prescribed opioids following such events, and within 2 years up to 17%

345. The 2-Week Itch | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/2-week-itch
     June 16, 2019 - names contributes to the potential for confirmation bias, especially when new, unfamiliar drugs are prescribed … psychiatrists and allergists), and pharmacists must be alert to the possibility of confusion when patients are prescribed … § drugs have similar action or indication (eg, glipizide and glyburide are both oral hypoglycemics prescribed

346. Medication errors in outpatient pediatrics. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medication-errors-outpatient-pediatrics
     December 07, 2022 - August 20, 2018 Interventions for the reduction of prescribed opioid use in chronic non-cancer

347. Addressing the Opioid Epidemic: Is There a Role for Physician Education? | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/addressing-opioid-epidemic-there-role-physician-education
     February 22, 2023 - June 19, 2019 An electronic intervention to improve safety for pain patients co-prescribed

348. Limited health literacy is a barrier to medication reconciliation in ambulatory care. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/limited-health-literacy-barrier-medication-reconciliation-ambulatory-care
     March 24, 2010 - study discovered that limited health literacy was associated with greater difficulty in reconciling prescribed

349. Hospice diagnosis: polypharmacy—a teachable moment. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/hospice-diagnosis-polypharmacy-teachable-moment
     April 24, 2018 - commentary describes an incident involving a patient with moderate dementia that worsened when opioids were prescribed

350. The Feasibility of Determining the Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of Medication Organisation Devices Compared with Usual Care for Older People in a Community Setting: Systematic Review, Stakeholder Focus Groups and Feasibility RCT. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/feasibility-determining-effectiveness-and-cost-effectiveness-medication-organisation-devices
     November 14, 2011 - Assessing patients age 75 and older who were prescribed three or more oral medications, this feasibility

351. Accuracy of a chatbot in answering questions that patients should ask before taking a new medication. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/accuracy-chatbot-answering-questions-patients-should-ask-taking-new-medication
     June 28, 2010 - In this study, ChatGPT-3.5 was prompted with questions patients may ask about the top 20 prescribed

352. Adverse drug event surveillance and drug withdrawals in the United States, 1969-2002. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/adverse-drug-event-surveillance-and-drug-withdrawals-united-states-1969-2002
     October 08, 2014 - The authors advocate for continued vigilance and reporting to ensure the safety of drugs prescribed to

353. Four states with robust prescription drug monitoring programs reduced opioid dosages. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/four-states-robust-prescription-drug-monitoring-programs-reduced-opioid-dosages
     June 21, 2016 - four states with PDMPs demonstrated a greater reduction in the average amount of morphine-equivalents prescribed

354. E-prescribing and adverse drug events: an observational study of the Medicare Part D population with diabetes. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/e-prescribing-and-adverse-drug-events-observational-study-medicare-part-d-population-diabetes
     September 30, 2015 - likely to be hospitalized or seen in the emergency department for hypoglycemia if their medications were prescribed

355. Medication Reconciliation With a Twist (or Dare We Say, a Patch?) | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/medication-reconciliation-twist-or-dare-we-say-patch
     April 03, 2024 - this discrepancy, the consulting service contacted the outpatient pharmacy and learned the patient was prescribed … She had not been prescribed the drug during the hospital stay, and the last patch had been placed more … medication history and involves two steps: (i) a systematic process for obtaining a thorough history of all prescribed … and non-prescribed medicines by using a structured patient and/or family interview and (ii) verification

356. Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people in primary care and its association with hospital admission: longitudinal study. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/prevalence-potentially-inappropriate-prescribing-older-people-primary-care-and-its
     September 28, 2016 - Approximately half of the 38,229 patients studied were prescribed a medication in contravention to the

357. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49707/psn-pdf
     April 01, 2014 - Ritonavir-associated drug interactions are likely with many commonly prescribed CYP3A4 substrates, including … They potentially provide real-time data on recently prescribed and recently dispensed medications. … should be routinely performed and patients should be encouraged to carry their most recent list of prescribed

358. Dangerous Dapsone | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/dangerous-dapsone
     January 10, 2011 - The injunction to be conversant with all drugs prescribed is axiomatic but probably unrealistic. … oncologist had greater "authority" than the pharmacist, and therefore decided to adhere to the order as prescribed … should not dispense any drug based on a prescription without data that support its use in the manner prescribed

359. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49396/psn-pdf
     April 01, 2003 - names contributes to the potential for confirmation bias, especially when new, unfamiliar drugs are prescribed … psychiatrists and allergists), and pharmacists must be alert to the possibility of confusion when patients are prescribed … § drugs have similar action or indication (eg, glipizide and glyburide are both oral hypoglycemics prescribed

360. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/72564/psn-pdf
     November 14, 2018 - Stewardship not only ensures that the appropriate drug is prescribed, but also that it is prescribed … information from patient self-reporting of any allergies, which can impact the types of antibiotics that are prescribed