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81. Place Matters: Closing the Gap on Rural Primary Care Quality Improvement Capacity-the Healthy Hearts Northwest Study | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/resources/rural-primary-care-quality-improvement-capacity.html
    July 01, 2021 - practices, where the need is high and resources are low, will yield benefits that outweigh centrally prescribed

82. Sustaining Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts – Facilitator Guide (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/sustaining-antibiotic-guide.docx
    September 01, 2022 - annual sustainability plan is to examine the proportion of clinic visits for which antibiotics are prescribed … three of the “never antibiotics” diagnoses—that is, diagnoses for which antibiotics should never be prescribed … Then, review the proportion of these visits for which an antibiotic was prescribed. … In this example, the proportion of visits in which an antibiotic was prescribed went down over time for … changes, the practice had a decrease in the proportion of influenza visits for which antibiotics were prescribed

83. When Do You Need An Antibiotic? (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/reduce/when-need-antibiotic.pdf
    March 01, 2017 - Take all antibiotics as prescribed for as long as they are prescribed. What shouldn’t you do?

84. When Do You Need An Antibiotic? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/reduce/antibiotic-brochure.html
    March 01, 2017 - Take all antibiotics as prescribed for as long as they are prescribed.

85. 046-Ss-Faqs-Staff-Decolonization-Chg-Nasal (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/046-ss-faqs-staff-decolonization-chg-nasal.docx
    April 01, 2025 - What if my patients have been prescribed other nasal medications? … If the patient’s doctor has prescribed or recommended other nasal medicines, the patient should continue … to use them as prescribed.

86. 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

87. Create a Safe Medicine List Together: Scripts (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/medicinelist-scripts-final508.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - 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

88. 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.

89. Imbedding Research in Practice to Improve Medication Safety (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol4/Advances-Raebel_53.pdf
    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

90. Reducing the Use of Short-acting Nifedipine by Hypertensives Using a Pharmaceutical Database (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Furmaga.pdf
    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

91. Methodological Challenges in Describing Medication Dosing Errors in Children (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/McPhillips.pdf
    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.

92. Smoking Cessation and Intervention (xls file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/results/research/chart-abstraction-template-smoking-cessation.xlsx
    June 02, 2025 - Cessation Medication Prescribed?

93. 6 Tk1 T2-Talking With Residents Family Members Final (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/6_TK1_T2-Talking_with_Residents_Family_Members_Final.docx
    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

94. Final Progress Report: Prescribing Errors in Ambulatory Pediatric Care (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/basco-report.pdf
    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

95. Blood Thinner Pills: Your Guide to Using Them Safely (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patients-consumers/diagnosis-treatment/treatments/btpills/btpills.pdf
    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

96. H3 Staff Survey (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/results/research/staff-survey-mw.pdf
    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

97. 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.

98. Statin Therapy Measure Narative (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/results/research/cholesterol-narrative.pdf
    December 31, 2018 - years with a diagnosis of diabetes with a fasting or direct LDL-C level of 70-189 mg/dL; who were prescribed … number of patients with a statin medication (Statin RXNORM Value Set) current on the medication list or prescribed

99. Prescribers-Facilitator-Guide (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/prescribers-facilitator-guide.docx
    June 01, 2021 - AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use 1 Communicating Infectious Concerns With Antibiotic Prescribers Long-Term Care Slide Title and Commentary Slide Number and Slide Communicating Infectious Concerns With Antibiotic Prescribers Long-Term Care SAY: Welcome to the presentation titled “Communicati…

100. 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