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241. 5 Tk2 P3T2-Sample Procedures Phase 3 (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P3T2-Sample_Procedures_Phase_3.doc
     January 01, 1999 - The use of antibiograms can help reduce inappropriate prescribing and lead to fewer clinical failures

242. Final Progress Report: Oral Chemotherapy Safety in Ambulatory Oncology: A Proactive Risk Assessment (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/weingart-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - They desired more comprehensive education at the initial prescribing encounter, particularly concerning … The Committee offered specific emphasis on safe prescribing and the importance of ongoing patient support … Additional safe prescribing recommendations have been formulated and are being advanced, including … This work has led to safe prescribing interventions in the electronic order entry system and improvements … Understanding the internal process involved in prescribing, dispensing, administering, and monitoring

243. Physical Therapy Clinic Communicates With Patients and Clinicians With AHRQ Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/ockt1001.html
     October 01, 2014 - The research also showed that physicians rely too much on prescribing narcotics and not enough on prescribing

244. 5 Tk2 T1-Concise Antibiogram Toolkit Background (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_T1-Concise_Antibiogram_Toolkit_Background.pdf
     May 01, 2014 -  Antibiograms are important tools for health care professionals involved in prescribing empiric antibiotics … Prescribing clinicians—physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants—can consult these

245. 5 Tk2 T1-Concise Antibiogram Toolkit Background (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_T1-Concise_Antibiogram_Toolkit_Background.doc
     May 01, 2014 - · Antibiograms are important tools for health care professionals involved in prescribing empiric antibiotics … Prescribing clinicians—physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants—can consult these tools

246. 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 - These barriers include prescribing medication that is not labeled for use in children, discrepancies … Errors of medication use are among the most common types of medical errors and include mistakes of prescribing … Advances in Patient Safety: Vol. 2 216 Barriers to safe pediatric prescribing Off-label use of … a medication off-label or not prescribing. … Factors related to errors in medication prescribing. JAMA 1997;277(4):312–7. 9.

247. Risk Reduction and Systematic Error Management: Standardization of the Pediatric Chemotherapy Process (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-David_13.pdf
     March 19, 2008 - Given this need, near-miss chemotherapy ordering errors, and research that identifies the prescribing … Prescribing errors occur far upstream in the medication management process and are more likely to be … If prescribing/ordering errors are not interrupted early, their effects may be propagated and often … For a vulnerable population of patients, such near-miss prescribing errors had the potential to cause … Reducing prescribing error: Competence, control and culture.

248. Preparing for Ambulatory Computerized Prescriber Order Entry by Evaluating Preimplementation Medication Errors (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Devine.pdf
     July 01, 2003 - It integrates patient scheduling, chart notes, laboratory values, radiology, and prescribing into one … This exercise validated the notion that the process of prescribing in the ambulatory care setting is … We purposefully limited the scope of our study to include errors related solely to prescribing. … Several commonly held beliefs about prescribing were noted in this study. … Managing prescribing cost and quality: one group’s experience.

249. AHRQ Views Blog: Asking the Hard Questions About Telehealth | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/770.html
     June 01, 2021 - AHRQ Releases New Toolkit To Help Long-Term Care Facilities Improve Antibiotic Prescribing . … dropped by more than 11 percentage points after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released prescribing … AHRQ Releases New Toolkit To Help Long-Term Care Facilities Improve Antibiotic Prescribing AHRQ’s new … Articles featured this week include: Interventions to reduce pediatric prescribing errors in professional

250. 5 Tk2 P3T2-Sample Procedures Phase 3 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P3T2-Sample_Procedures_Phase_3.pdf
     May 01, 2014 - The use of antibiograms can help reduce inappropriate prescribing and lead to fewer clinical failures

251. AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Long-Term Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.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

252. Chipra-88-Measure-1-Section-6-Attachment-1 (xls file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/factsheets/fullreports/chipra-88-measure-1-section-6-attachment-1.xlsx
     June 01, 2012 - prescription (Yes - 1/No - 2) ADHD Measure 2 Exclusion - Documentation of medical reason(s) for not prescribing … themselves or others) (Yes - 1/No - 2) ADHD Measure 2 Exclusion - Documentation of system reason(s) for not prescribing

253. Final Progress Report: Oral Chemotherapy Safety in Ambulatory Oncology: A Proactive Risk Assessment (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/final-reports/17123-Weingart-draft-1.pdf
     January 01, 2022 - They desired more comprehensive education at the initial prescribing encounter, particularly concerning … The Committee offered specific emphasis on safe prescribing and the importance of ongoing patient support … Additional safe prescribing recommendations have been formulated and are being advanced, including … This work has led to safe prescribing interventions in the electronic order entry system and improvements … Understanding the internal process involved in prescribing, dispensing, administering, and monitoring

254. Final Progress Report: Risk Models To Improve Long-Term Care Medication Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/higginson-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Prescribing and administration errors are the models’ dominant risks. … Prescribing and administration errors are the most common causes of adverse drug events, but, with few … Factors related to errors in medication prescribing. … Inappropriate medication prescribing in residential care/assisted living facilities. … Pharmacist detected 1111 prescribing errors. Orders handwritten or on preprinted forms.

255. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/studies/index.html?page=129
     January 01, 2024 - The objective of this study was to determine patient preference for anxiety and/or depression prescribing … Neurologist prescribing versus psychiatry referral: examining patient preferences for anxiety and depression … They concluded that their study demonstrated that opioid prescribing exceeds consumption following common … surgical oncology procedures, thus indicating the potential for reductions in prescribing. … Opioid prescribing exceeds consumption following common surgical oncology procedures.

256. The Association Between Pharmacist Support and Voluntary Reporting of Medication Errors: An Analysis of MEDMARX® Data (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Jones_91.pdf
     July 17, 2008 - Specifically, the CAHs reported a smaller proportion of prescribing errors than did the NFCHs (4 percent … Prescribing errors were more likely than any other error type to be reported as Category B across the … In NFCHs, 56.6 percent of errors discovered by pharmacy 12 personnel originated in prescribing, … Specifically, the proportions of errors originating in the prescribing and dispensing phases were much … Since prescribing and dispensing errors are under-represented in the voluntary reporting of CAHs, to

257. Closing the Quality Gap Series | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/er208-series.html
     July 01, 2016 - diabetes, asthma, hypertension), practice areas (prevention of healthcare-acquired infections, antibiotic prescribing

258. 155. Treatment Recommendations: Medications-Nortriptyline (Continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/tobacco/clinicians/presentations/2008update-full/slide155.html
     October 01, 2014 - Prescribing instructions Initiate— Therapy is initiated 10-28 days before the quit date to allow

259. 4 Tk3 T1-Sample Policy Final (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK3_T1-Sample_Policy_final.docx
     October 01, 2016 - percent and 75 percent of antibiotic prescriptions in nursing homes do not meet clinical guidelines for prescribing … Unnecessary prescribing practices by prescribing clinicians and overuse of newer, broad-spectrum antibiotics … Minimum Criteria for Common Infections toolkit (“Minimum Criteria toolkit”) aims to reduce unnecessary prescribing

260. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 10. Harms Due to Opioids (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/opioids-1.pdf
     March 01, 2020 - CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain — United States, 2016. … No Shortcuts to Safer Opioid Prescribing. … Suboptimal Opioid Prescribing: A Practice Change Project. … There was no significant decline in opioid prescribing. … Task Force to develop safe prescribing • Opioid Stewardship Committee • Prescribing, addiction