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121. Appendix 4:  Adult Health Assessment Sample Questions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2013 - ___ I do not have to take medicine ___ I always take them as prescribed ___ Sometimes I take … them as prescribed ___ I seldom take them as prescribed   NUTRITION / EATING PATTERNS

122. Outpatient Benzodiazepine Prescribing, Adverse Events, and Costs (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/French.pdf
     April 27, 2004 - for older adults, and may be prescribed for long periods of time.17, 28, 30 In our study population … , BZDs were widely prescribed during the study period. … Frequency of prescribed benzodiazepines by strength (1999–2001), age 60+, cont. … Fall-contributing adverse effects of the most frequently prescribed drugs. … Frequency of prescribed benzodiazepines by strength (1999–2001), age 60+ Table 5.

123. Reducing the Use of Short-acting Nifedipine by Hypertensives Using a Pharmaceutical Database (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2005 - and fourth tiers evaluated patient-specific information to determine to whom and why the drug was prescribed … In the third intervention, short-acting nifedipine was prescribed for hypertension in 46.5 percent of … The final intervention (75 patients) resulted in one patient prescribed short-acting nifedipine for … The other patient was being prescribed short-acting nifedipine for the treatment of hypertension. … Overall impact of the interventions From 1999 to 2004, the number of patients prescribed nifedipine

124. Imbedding Research in Practice to Improve Medication Safety (pdf file)
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     May 07, 2008 - requiring dosage adjustment based on renal function (Renal Dosing); (5) are 1 pregnant and are prescribed … that are contraindicated during pregnancy (Prescribing during Pregnancy); or (6) are elderly and are prescribed … Pharmacists were alerted to critical warfarin-drug interactions for the nearly 8,000 KPCO members prescribed … An example of this intervention was assessing thyroid function in patients prescribed amiodarone. … Prescribing during pregnancy.6 Pharmacists were alerted that a patient who was pregnant was prescribed

125. 6 Tk1 T2-Talking With Residents Family Members Final (doc file)
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     October 01, 2016 - If your family member is experiencing symptoms and bacteria are found, she or he will typically be prescribed … oxygen levels. · If your family member is experiencing a bad cough and a fever, he/she will typically be prescribed … or she definitely has an infection. · It is crucial that your family member take the antibiotics as prescribed … Make sure the doctor and nurses know that an antibiotic should be prescribed for your family member only … them with any of the following questions to ask a nurse or doctor: · Why is my family member being prescribed

126. Approaches to Address Health Risks for Older Adults
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     March 15, 2025 - Objective 3: To learn about the associations of pain with risk for OUD/OD outcomes in older adults with prescribed … 35 Presentation 3 Unrelieved Pain and Risk of Opioid Use Disorder or Overdose in Older Adults Prescribed … .,high-dose ≥50 MME/daily, duration >90 days, co-use with benzodiazepines) Unrelieved pain after prescribed … Research Aim To examine the associations of pain status with risk of OUD or OD among older adults prescribed … cause prescription opioid misuse (use without a prescription or for reasons or in ways other than as prescribed

127. Optimizing the Treatment of Diabetes Patients (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2013 - patients by evaluating a) the relationship between hypertension and hyperlipidemia and adherence to prescribed … medication, and b) the health outcomes associated with prescribed medication, non- adherence, and discontinuation

128. Methodological Challenges in Describing Medication Dosing Errors in Children (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2004 - John Stull, Julia Hecht, Susan Andrade, Marlene Miller, Robert Davis Abstract Although children are prescribed … In our study of pediatric medication errors, we found a wide range of doses prescribed to children for … When medications are prescribed to children off-label, providers often extrapolate pediatric doses from … A child may be prescribed an antibiotic to be taken 5 ml 3 times per day for 10 days (150 ml total) … The automated data will reflect that a 200 ml bottle was dispensed, but not the amount prescribed.

129. Smoking Cessation and Intervention (xls file)
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     August 20, 2018 - Cessation Medication Prescribed?

130. Best Practices in the Management of Patients With Antibiotic Allergies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2022 - Recognize types of reactions to antibiotics commonly prescribed in the outpatient environment.

131. Blood Thinner Pills: Your Guide to Using Them Safely (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - ___________________________________________________ 1 About Your Blood Thinner Your doctor has prescribed … ■ Does the medicine seem different from what your doctor prescribed or look different from what … Your Other Doctors Because you take a blood thinner, you will be seen regularly by the doctor who prescribed … ■ Wear gardening gloves when doing yard work. 8 Food and Your Blood Thinner If your doctor has prescribed

132. H3 Staff Survey (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2014 - Patients diagnosed with ASCVD should be prescribed a statin 1 2 3 4 5 30. … Patients with a primary elevation of LDL ≥190 mg/dL should be prescribed a statin 1 2 3 4 5 31. … DM, between 40-75 years old, with LDL between 70-189 mg/dL, and no diagnosis of ASCVD should be prescribed … diagnosis of ASCVD or DM, with LDL 70-189 mg/dL and an estimated 10-year ASCVD risk ≥7.5% should be prescribed

133. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - This cohort study examined antibiotics prescribed and variations by race among hospitalized patients … Cefazolin use with less likely to be prescribed to Black inpatients than White inpatients and they were … likely to be prescribed clindamycin. … , and the remainder prescribed nonelectronically. … Discontinued high-risk medications were more likely to be e-prescribed (47%).

134. Final Progress Report: Prescribing Errors in Ambulatory Pediatric Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - substitution errors and to estimate frequencies of dosing errors among narcotic-containing preparations prescribed … For dosing frequency determination, we focused on narcotic-containing drugs prescribed to children 0 … Methods: D-1: Identification of Drugs and Creation of Analytic Datasets: To determine drug prescribed … to children and generally meant to be taken daily; b) the paired drug was prescribed less often for … children or was not expected to be taken daily; c) the paired drugs were generally not prescribed for

135. Table 21. Utilization of prescribed medications for treatment of diabetes and related conditions among adults with diabetes by project site. Fiscal year 2010 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - Utilization of prescribed medications for treatment of diabetes and related conditions among adults with

136. About the Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2024 - Antibiotics are one of the most commonly prescribed medications in nursing homes and overuse of antibiotics … Between 25 percent and 75 percent of antibiotics prescribed in nursing homes are unnecessary. 3 Because

137. Final Progress Report: Improving quality of postoperative pain care through innovative use of electronic health records (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/hernandez-boussard-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Widely-prescribed prodrug opioids (e.g., hydrocodone) require conversion by liver enzyme CYP-2D6 to … For this study, we used a machine learning approach to identify patients prescribed a combination … A total of 14.1% were prescribed both an SSRI and a prodrug opioid, 29.4% were prescribed an SSRI and … a non-prodrug opioid, 18.6% were prescribed a prodrug opioid but were not on SSRIs, and 37.5% were … prescribed a non-prodrug opioid but were not on SSRIs.

138. AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW Initiative: Reducing Primary Care Patients’ Risk of Heart Attacks | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2018 - As a result, in the first 8 months of 2017, 230 patients were newly prescribed a statin medication to … Another 368 were prescribed aspirin.

139. Create a Safe Medicine List Together: Scripts (pdf file)
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     April 03, 2018 - We also need to know what other doctors have prescribed and what nonprescription medicines you’re taking … The computer doesn’t always have the medicines that your other doctors prescribed, and we don’t always

140. Blood Thinner Pills: Your Guide to Using Them Safely | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/diagnosis-treatment/treatments/btpills/btpills.html
     March 01, 2023 - Thinner Food and Your Blood Thinner Blood Tests   About Your Blood Thinner Your doctor has prescribed … Does the medicine seem different from what your doctor prescribed or look different from what you expected … Your Other Doctors Because you take a blood thinner, you will be seen regularly by the doctor who prescribed … Return to Contents   Food and Your Blood Thinner If your doctor has prescribed warfarin, the foods