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  1. 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

  2. Association of inappropriate outpatient pediatric antibiotic prescriptions with adverse drug events and health care expenditures. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/association-inappropriate-outpatient-pediatric-antibiotic-prescriptions-adverse-drug-events
    March 05, 2008 - This analysis of antibiotics prescribed to more than 2.8 million children showed more than 30% of children … with bacterial infection, and 4%-70% of children with viral infection were inappropriately prescribed

  3. Indication-specific opioid prescribing for US patients with Medicaid or private Insurance, 2017 | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/indication-specific-opioid-prescribing-us-patients-medicaid-or-private-insurance-2017
    August 02, 2017 - patients with chronic non-cancer pain conditions undergoing long-term opioid therapy were commonly prescribed … 2022 Association of dose tapering with overdose or mental health crisis among patients prescribed

  4. Spotlight-Slides-Wright-Schiff (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/spotlight-slides-wright-schiff.pdf
    January 01, 2020 - . 4 Case: Lost Start Date (2) At the time of his discharge home, the physician electronically prescribed … Surescripts network • Yet, there are many opportunities for losing information in the process 15 The Prescribed … Regimen in This Case • The regimen prescribed in this case was very complex • Entering such a regimen

  5. State of Opioid Use, Misuse, and Opioid Use Disorder among Older Adults (pdf file)

    integrationacademy.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2021-04/State_of_Opioid_Use_Among_Older_Adults.pdf
    January 01, 2021 - beneficiaries 460,000 beneficiaries obtained opioid prescriptions from 4 or more prescribers and were prescribed … morphine pharmacies in 2017.3 equivalent dose (MED)/day of opioidsin 2017.3 57,611 beneficiaries were prescribed … extreme amounts -1,827,160 beneficiaries exceeding 240 mg MED/day in 2017.3 were co-prescribed opioid

  6. A qualitative study of prescribing errors among multi-professional prescribers within an e-prescribing system. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/qualitative-study-prescribing-errors-among-multi-professional-prescribers-within-e
    December 02, 2020 - Study A qualitative study of prescribing errors among multi-professional prescribers within an e-prescribing system. Citation Text: Alshahrani F, Marriott JF, Cox AR. A qualitative study of prescribing errors among multi-professional prescribers within an e-prescribing system. Int J Clin…

  7. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33606/psn-pdf
    December 15, 2024 - For many years, opioids were routinely prescribed for pain of any etiology, despite the fact that opioids … overprescribing has been documented in a wide range of patient populations, and disturbingly, patients often are prescribed … Even when opioids are prescribed appropriately, prescription of unnecessarily large quantities can lead … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/association-dose-tapering-overdose-or-mental-health-crisis-among-patients-prescribed-long

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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.

  11. 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

  12. 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…

  13. Outpatient prescribing errors and the impact of computerized prescribing. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/outpatient-prescribing-errors-and-impact-computerized-prescribing
    February 18, 2011 - Study Outpatient prescribing errors and the impact of computerized prescribing. Citation Text: Gandhi TK, Weingart SN, Seger AC, et al. Outpatient prescribing errors and the impact of computerized prescribing. J Gen Intern Med. 2005;20(9):837-841. doi:10.1111/j.1525-1497.2005.0194.x. …

  14. S116 (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/s116.pdf
    October 01, 2007 - Our multivariable model indicated that physicians who had most recently prescribed a conventional APM … If atypical APMs are thought to be generally safer, it is likely that they are selectively prescribed … On the other hand, patients prescribed conventional APMs were more likely to have a history of cancer … ‡Prevalence of risk factor among patients of physicians who most recently prescribed an atypical APM … minus prevalence among patients of physicians who most recently prescribed a conventional APM estimated

  15. About the Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/nhguide/about/index.html
    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

  16. 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

  17. Outpatient opioid prescriptions for children and opioid-related adverse events. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/outpatient-opioid-prescriptions-children-and-opioid-related-adverse-events
    July 31, 2017 - Dentists prescribed the largest share of more than 1 million opioid prescriptions, followed by surgeons … April 25, 2018 Overdose risk in young children of women prescribed opioids.

  18. An Evaluation of the Spread and Scale of PatientToc™ From Primary Care to Community Pharmacy Practice for the Collection of Patient-Reported Outcomes | Digital Healthcare Research

    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/evaluation-spread-and-scale-patienttoc-primary-care-community-pharmacy
    March 31, 2024 - Medication Adherence Patient-Reported Outcomes Medication adherence--taking medications as prescribed … Fifty percent of individuals taking at least one regularly scheduled prescribed medication are non-adherent … filling a prescription does not necessarily mean that an individual is taking their medications as prescribed

  19. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/50697/psn-pdf
    November 27, 2019 - Ebong, MBBS, MS This case highlights how commonly prescribed medications can lead to serious adverse … list to identify potential drug-drug interactions should have occurred before new medications were prescribed … In this case, pharmacy repeatedly verified the prescribed medications without checking for potential … care team be actively involved in the medication review process especially when new medications are prescribed

  20. Good Night's Sleep Gone Wrong | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/good-nights-sleep-gone-wrong
    September 01, 2015 - That night, the patient was given her home medications at the prescribed doses: zolpidem 10 mg at 22: … general medicine patients complain of sleep disruptions.( 3 ) As a result, patients are frequently prescribed … patients who do not have a documented sleep disorder prior to hospitalization and were not previously 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
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