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61. Observational evidence of the prevalence and association of polypharmacy and drug administration errors in hospitalized adult patients. | PSNet
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    August 11, 2021 - common among adult patients (ages 21 and older) at one tertiary hospital, with almost half of inpatients prescribed … Findings indicate that medication administration errors increase as the number of prescribed drugs increased

62. Personal formularies of primary care physicians across 4 health care systems. | PSNet
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    July 10, 2019 - One element of conservative prescribing is minimizing the number of medications prescribed. … This study compared the number of unique, newly prescribed medications (personal formularies) of primary

63. Overprescribing of opioids to adults by dentists in the U.S., 2011-2015. | PSNet
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    October 07, 2020 - period (2011-2015) examined prescribing practices prior to the recommendations and found that 29% of prescribed … 2021 Association of dose tapering with overdose or mental health crisis among patients prescribed

64. Tipping the balance: a systematic review and meta-ethnography to unfold the complexity of surgical antimicrobial prescribing behavior in hospital settings. | PSNet
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    August 04, 2021 - Prophylactic antimicrobials are frequently prescribed for surgical patients despite the risks of antimicrobial … This review summarizes how and why antimicrobials continue to be prescribed in surgical settings despite

65. Opioid prescribing decreases after learning of a patient's fatal overdose. | PSNet
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    January 18, 2023 - Researchers found that milligram morphine equivalents prescribed to the patients of providers who received … May 1, 2019 An electronic intervention to improve safety for pain patients co-prescribed

66. Adverse events and emergency department opioid prescriptions in adolescents. | PSNet
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    December 21, 2022 - risk for an opioid-related adverse outcome within one year when “adults” just over age 18 years were prescribed … opioids that would not have been prescribed if they were under 18 years and considered “children.”

67. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45137/psn-pdf
    May 18, 2016 - studies have found that older patients experience high rates of adverse drug events and are often prescribed … a checklist, and plan-do-study-act methods to help identify potentially inappropriate medications prescribed

68. Incidence and predictors of opioid prescription at discharge after traumatic injury. | PSNet
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    July 02, 2019 - Recent studies have shown that opioids are frequently prescribed in situations where there is little … Investigators found that patients with more severe injuries were more likely to be prescribed opioids

69. Changes in prescription and over-the-counter medication and dietary supplement use among older adults in the United States, 2005 vs 2011. | PSNet
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    May 06, 2020 - Since older patients are typically prescribed more medications, they are at higher risk for adverse … while the use of over-the-counter medications declined over time, the number of dietary supplements and prescribed

70. Effect of pharmacist email alerts on concurrent prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines by prescribers and primary care managers: a randomized clinical trial. | PSNet
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    September 07, 2022 - This randomized study found that pharmacist email alerts to clinicians caring for patients recently co-prescribed … multifaceted clinical pharmacist intervention on medication safety after hospitalization in persons prescribed

71. Principles of conservative prescribing. | PSNet
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    April 22, 2017 - about new drugs, work with patients for a shared agenda, and consider long-term impacts of medications prescribed

72. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46119/psn-pdf
    August 15, 2018 - Recent studies have shown that opioids are frequently prescribed in situations where there is little … Investigators found that patients with more severe injuries were more likely to be prescribed opioids

73. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49558/psn-pdf
    April 01, 2008 - She was prescribed Augmentin (amoxicillin-clavulanate). … She was then prescribed azithromycin. … A 2007 study found that antibiotics were prescribed in 82.7% of outpatient visits due to acute sinusitis … The patient was prescribed Augmentin (amoxicillin-clavulanate) as initial therapy. … While this agent is the second most common antibiotic prescribed for acute sinusitis (behind amoxicillin

74. Development and pilot testing of guidelines to monitor high-risk medications in the ambulatory setting. | PSNet
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    December 06, 2013 - testing revealed that the developed guidelines were not being consistently followed, with infrequently prescribed … multifaceted clinical pharmacist intervention on medication safety after hospitalization in persons prescribed

75. Dementia and risk of adverse warfarin-related events in the nursing home setting. | PSNet
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    February 23, 2011 - independent risk factor for medication errors among a cohort of geriatric nursing home patients who were prescribed … multifaceted clinical pharmacist intervention on medication safety after hospitalization in persons prescribed

76. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/60977/psn-pdf
    January 08, 2020 - Topamax™ had been accidentally selected by a nurse and pended to the physician who then prescribed the … The provider bypassed multiple opportunities to prevent the wrong medication being prescribed, which … SLICE 3: The Pharmacist Reviewing and Filling the Incorrectly Prescribed Medication  The third category … Although the pharmacist dispensed the prescription as it was prescribed, it was the incorrect prescription …  that would enable pharmacists to thoroughly assess and verify the clinical appropriateness of the prescribed

77. Antibiotics for URI/Sinusitis—A Simple Decision Gone Bad | PSNet
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    January 01, 2014 - She was prescribed Augmentin (amoxicillin-clavulanate). … She was then prescribed azithromycin. … A 2007 study found that antibiotics were prescribed in 82.7% of outpatient visits due to acute sinusitis … The patient was prescribed Augmentin (amoxicillin-clavulanate) as initial therapy. … While this agent is the second most common antibiotic prescribed for acute sinusitis (behind amoxicillin

78. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47266/psn-pdf
    August 08, 2018 - Dentists prescribed the largest share of more than 1 million opioid prescriptions, followed by surgeons … cdc-guideline-prescribing-opioids-chronic-pain-united-states-2016 https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/overdose-risk-young-children-women-prescribed-opioids

79. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45097/psn-pdf
    May 09, 2017 - Since older patients are typically prescribed more medications, they are at higher risk for adverse … the use of over-the-counter medications declined over time, the number of dietary supplements and prescribed

80. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49755/psn-pdf
    February 01, 2016 - That night, the patient was given her home medications at the prescribed doses: zolpidem 10 mg at 22: … patients who do not have a documented sleep disorder prior to hospitalization and were not previously prescribed … utilization is associated with adverse effects and detrimental outcomes, such medications are still commonly prescribed … In this case, it is unclear whether the nephrologist who prescribed the hydroxyzine knew that the patient … new sleep aids in the hospital may not need them after discharge and so should not automatically be prescribed