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21. Health Systems Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/opioids/health-systems-research.html
    July 01, 2021 - recent AHRQ-funded grants related to opioids and other substance use disorders Toward Safer Opioid Prescribing … Advancing Patient Safety Implementation through Pharmacy-Based Naloxone Prescribing. … Prescribing of opioids at hospital discharge and associated adverse patient outcomes. … Dental prescribing of antibiotics and opioids: high use in the absence of evidence.

22. Toolkit To Educate and Engage Residents and Family Members | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/nhguide/toolkits/educate-and-engage/index.html
    October 01, 2016 - Determine Whether It Is Necessary To Treat a Potential Infection With Antibiotics Help Prescribing … Education toolkit helps the nursing home (1) encourage an open and respectful dialogue between nurses and prescribing … Convene a meeting of the nursing staff and any onsite prescribing clinicians to discuss the tools.  … In this meeting, nurses and onsite prescribing clinicians should be encouraged to discuss how they would

23. Enroll Now for Program on Improving Antibiotic Use in Telemedicine | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - retail clinics that use telemedicine for a no-cost, 18-month national program to strengthen antibiotic prescribing

24. Learn Best Practices for Common Infectious Syndromes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/best-practices/index.html
    June 01, 2021 - The one-page documents are intended for health care practitioners who are making prescribing decisions … Tools Below are several Posters and Pocket Cards that can be distributed to frontline providers and prescribing

25. Off-Label Use of Atypical Antipsychotics in the Nursing Home (pdf file)
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/clinicians-providers/iadapt/gurwitz.pdf
    January 01, 2014 - intensive dissemination strategies to reach nursing home staff with an evidence-based antipsychotic prescribing … toolkit demonstrated reductions in antipsychotic prescribing level in all study arms during the intervention … Challenge of changing nursing home prescribing culture.

26. Explain Why a Health Care Quality Measure Matters | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/labels/explain.html
    January 01, 2019 - For example, one can label a clinical measure such as prescribing beta blockers after a hospital discharge … for heart attack as “Prescribing beta blockers at discharge to prevent future heart attacks.”

27. AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Long-Term Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/index.html
    September 01, 2021 - and Family Members helps nursing homes encourage an open and respectful dialogue between nurses and prescribing … Antibiotic Use in Long-Term Care helps nursing homes improve antibiotic stewardship and promote safer prescribing

28. New Data Resource Provides Insights on Factors Related to Falls | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/886.html
    October 01, 2023 - removing the barriers common to conventional OUD treatment and prioritizes “medication first” through prescribing … Articles featured this week include: Do junior doctors make more prescribing errors than experienced … doctors when prescribing electronically using a computerised physician order entry system combined with

29. The Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making Posters and Screen Saver | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/acute-care/four-moments/downloads.html
    November 01, 2019 - Screen Saver Develop and Improve Stewardship Program Develop Culture of Safety Around Prescribing

30. Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/engage/medlist.html
    October 01, 2022 - In the primary care setting, medication safety issues include prescribing errors, contraindications,

31. AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/index.html
    March 01, 2024 - Acute Care Hospitals provides presentations and tools for clinicians to use to improve antibiotic prescribing … approach to antibiotic stewardship that empowers clinicians to be stewards of their own antibiotic prescribing … developing and improving your antibiotic stewardship program, creating a culture of safety around antibiotic prescribing

32. Online Training Enables Primary Care Providers in Rural New Mexico to Prescribe Medication for Opioid Use Disorders | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/202304.html
    October 01, 2023 - along the way during their training, including getting a license to prescribe buprenorphine, beginning prescribing

33. About the Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2023 - unnecessary. 3 Because it can be challenging to determine when a resident actually has an infection, prescribing … These interventions have been shown to help prescribing clinicians follow the best guidelines for making

34. General Implementation Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/improve/tools.html
    June 01, 2021 - The Commitment Poster is a public display of your institution’s commitment to prescribing antibiotics

35. Improving Patient Safety in Community Pharmacies: A Resource List for Users of the AHRQ Community Pharmacy Survey on Patient Safety Culture (pdf file)
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/community-pharmacy/pharmacy-resources.pdf
    May 01, 2023 - /implementation-toolsets-e- prescribing/toolset-e-prescribing-0 This toolset is designed to assist pharmacies … in adopting e-prescribing. … /toolset-e-prescribing-0 http://healthit.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/implementation-toolsets-e-prescribing … /toolset-e-prescribing-0 https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241501958 VI. … A Toolset for E-Prescribing Implementation in Independent Pharmacies 10.WHO Multi-Professional Patient

36. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sepsis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/acute-care/diagnosis/sepsis.html
    November 01, 2019 - Four Moments Develop and Improve Stewardship Program Develop Culture of Safety Around Prescribing

37. Making the Case That Improving Antibiotic Use is a Patient Safety Issue | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/acute-care/safety/patient-safety.html
    November 01, 2019 - Four Moments Develop and Improve Stewardship Program Develop Culture of Safety Around Prescribing

38. Cholesterol Management Evidence and Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/evidence/cholesterol.html
    March 01, 2021 - Management in Primary Care This facts-at-a-glance handout for clinicians summarizes guidelines for prescribing … Lipid Algorithm This decision tree summarizes recommendations for prescribing statins in primary and

39. Determine Whether It Is Necessary To Treat a Potential Infection With Antibiotics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/nhguide/toolkits/determine-whether-to-treat/index.html
    October 01, 2016 - Determine Whether It Is Necessary To Treat a Potential Infection With Antibiotics Help Prescribing

40. Antibiotic Stewardship | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    pcmh.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/education-bundles/urine-culturing/antibiotic-stewardship/part-2-slides.html
    February 01, 2019 - Improving antibiotic prescribing. … Image: Red oval highlighting Improving antibiotic prescribing/stewardship from the CDC's four core actions … Actions To Improve Use: Implement at least one recommended action Tracking: Monitor antibiotic prescribing … use and resistance Education: Train staff, residents, and families about resistance and optimal prescribing