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61. Toolkits | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2017 - tracking progress toward meeting antimicrobial stewardship program goals and providing feedback to prescribing … The Minimum Criteria for Antibiotics Tool is the diagnostic guidance tool for prescribing clinicians … Toolkits To Help Prescribing Clinicians Choose the Right Antibiotic for Treating an Infection Nursing … Prescribing clinicians can then use the antibiogram to help them choose the most appropriate antibiotic … the antibiogram to monitor antimicrobial stewardship and provide feedback to clinicians about their prescribing

62. Implementing Antibiotic Stewardship in Your Practice – Facilitator Guide (doc file)
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    September 01, 2022 - , (3) tracking data to evaluate progress in improving antibiotic prescribing and reviewing the data with … The presentation titled “Why Your Practice Should Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing” assists … This type of graph can be used to track antibiotic prescribing over time. … Second, small numbers of prescribing episodes can make peer comparison interventions challenging. … To detect diagnosis shifting, measure overall antibiotic prescribing and antibiotic prescribing for a

63. Study: Urgent Action Needed To Optimize Dental Antibiotic Prescribing Worldwide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2021 - Study: Urgent Action Needed To Optimize Dental Antibiotic Prescribing Worldwide Issue Number … Today's Headlines: Study: Urgent Action Needed To Optimize Dental Antibiotic Prescribing Worldwide … Study: Urgent Action Needed To Optimize Dental Antibiotic Prescribing Worldwide Urgent action is needed … Significant differences in antibiotic prescribing were found among dentists in Australia, England, the … U.S. dentists had the highest antibiotic prescribing (73 antibiotic items per 1,000 population) while

64. Making Effective Behavior Changes Around Antibiotic Prescribing | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2019 - Making Effective Behavior Changes Around Antibiotic Prescribing After viewing or presenting … regarding implementation science to implement antibiotic stewardship (AS) interventions and to change prescribing

65. Communicating With Patients and Families About Antibiotic Decisions – Facilitator Guide (doc file)
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    September 01, 2022 - SAY: Understanding how to effectively communicate with patients about antibiotic prescribing decisions … can reduce unnecessary and potential harmful antibiotic prescribing. … If all members of the practice use clear and consistent messaging about antibiotic prescribing, including … Slide 3 Misconceptions About Antibiotic Prescribing SAY: A common scenario clinicians face is a … Perceived antibiotic expectation was a major source of antibiotic over-prescribing.

66. 5 Tk2 P1O-Comprehensive Antibiogram Toolkit Phase1 Assessment And Planning Final (doc file)
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    May 13, 2014 - Initial training of nurses and prescribing clinicians may take approximately 30 minutes. … Prescribing Clinician Interest Assessment · Assess the level of prescribing clinicians’ interest in … using antibiograms to improve antibiotic prescribing, by administering a brief survey. … A sample prescribing-clinician survey is included as part this chapter. … , meetings with the laboratory, and training for prescribing clinicians and nursing staff

67. Sustaining Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts – Facilitator Guide (doc file)
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    September 01, 2022 - the next 1–2 years · Identify targets for future antibiotic stewardship efforts based on antibiotic prescribing … to monitor changes in antibiotic prescribing over time. … In quarterly antibiotic prescription reports, the practice’s antibiotic prescribing rates were compared … Consider such a review on a monthly or at least quarterly basis, to measure antibiotic prescribing over … Consider investigating whether any other changes could have negatively impacted antibiotic prescribing

68. 5 Tk2 P1O-Comprehensive Antibiogram Toolkit Phase 1 Assessment And Planning Final (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2014 - There must also be sufficient interest in improving antibiotic prescribing to justify the use of the … Initial training of nurses and prescribing clinicians may take approximately 30 minutes. … Prescribing Clinician Interest Assessment • Assess the level of prescribing clinicians’ interest in … using antibiograms to improve antibiotic prescribing, by administering a brief survey. … • A sample prescribing-clinician survey is included as part this chapter.

69. Final Progress Report: Do Safety Warnings Change Prescribing Among the US Dialysis Population? (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2013 - Final Progress Report: Do Safety Warnings Change Prescribing Among the US Dialysis Population? … Principal Investigator: Thamer, Mae FINAL REPORT TITLE PAGE Title: Do Safety Warnings Change Prescribing … In contrast, for-profit facilities did not have a significant change in ESA prescribing. … Chain 2 patients experienced no change in ESA prescribing before or after the warnings. … Do Safety Warnings Change ESA Prescribing among the US Dialysis Population?

70. Opioid Prescribing, Adverse Outcomes Increase Significantly When Patients Turn 18 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2022 - Opioid Prescribing, Adverse Outcomes Increase Significantly When Patients Turn 18 Issue Number … Today's Headlines: Opioid Prescribing, Adverse Outcomes Increase Significantly When Patients Turn … Opioid Prescribing, Adverse Outcomes Increase Significantly When Patients Turn 18 An AHRQ-funded review … The project team estimated that adult prescribing habits may result in a more than 14 percent increased … Researchers suggested that the results indicate that more attention should be focused on these opioid prescribing

71. Medication Dashboard Data 2024 (xls file)
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    January 01, 2024 - Safety Concern Stage Event Originated Frequency Percent Incident Administering 27,349 25.8% Incident Prescribing … Incident Purchasing 195 0.2% Incident Other stage 3,697 3.5% Incident Unknown 48,534 45.8% Near Miss Prescribing … 3,284 9.2% Near Miss Unknown 11,289 31.6% Unsafe Condition Administering 795 7.7% Unsafe Condition Prescribing … Incorrect patient Administering 571 25.3% Incorrect patient Dispensing 193 8.6% Incorrect patient Prescribing … (ordering) * * Allergen to the patient Transcribing * * Contraindicated for the patient Prescribing

72. Develop and Improve Antibiotic Stewardship Activities in Your Practice | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2022 - Development of an infrastructure to promote antibiotic stewardship is necessary to optimize antibiotic prescribing … The presentations titled “Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing” and “Improving … Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing? … Accessing and Reporting Antibiotic Prescription Data details how to obtain antibiotic prescribing data … prescription rates to be used for tracking progress and providing feedback to the practice and individual prescribing

73. Tk3 T5 Minimum Criteria Nursing Staff Training (doc file)
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    October 01, 2016 - But the prescribing clinician is now aware you are using this tool. … And, if calling in the report, read what the box tells you to say to the prescribing clinician. … Slide 22 UTI SBAR Form Page 2 SAY: This section is for the prescribing clinician.  … Slide 33 Suspected LRTI SBAR Page 2 SAY: Finally, we have the prescribing clinician orders. … These protocols are communicated to the prescribing clinician via this tool, and even if the prescribing

74. Communicating with Patients and Families around Antibiotic Decisions - Slides
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    September 01, 2022 - 1 Effective communication with patients around antibiotics can— Improve antibiotic prescribing and reduce … Patient satisfaction not impacted by antibiotic prescribing for viral upper respiratory infections. … Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for respiratory conditions does not improve Press Ganey patient … Low-value antibiotic prescribing and clinical factors influencing patient satisfaction. … Reducing inappropriate prescribing: the role of online commentary on physical exam findings.

75. PowerPoint Presentation
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    October 01, 2016 - For the purposes of this presentation, the term “prescribing clinician” will encompass physicians, physician … More frightening is that prescribing antibiotics for urinary tract infections is much more difficult … But the prescribing clinician is now aware you are using this tool. … for the prescribing clinician’s review. … These protocols are communicated to the prescribing clinician via this tool, and even if the prescribing

76. Kesselheim, Aaron | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - Institution: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA Grant Title: Off-Label Prescribing: Comparative … uses, assess the association between the quality of the evidence base and the prevalence of off-label prescribing … initiate the qualitative analyses of physicians and experts to define the nature and causes of off-label prescribing

77. Final Progress Report: Show Your Work: Do Prescription Annotations Impact Near-miss Medication Errors? (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2007 - Collectively, medication selection and prescribing errors have an incidence ranging from 7.8% to 21% … Comments about the impact on pediatric prescribing were uniformly positive. … Prescribing potentially inappropriate psychotropic medications to the ambulatory elderly. … The continuing challenge of inappropriate prescribing in the elderly: an update of the evidence. … Electronic Prescribing: Toward Maximum Value and Rapid Adoption.

78. Flexible Interventions to Decrease Antibiotic Overuse in Primary Care Practice: A Report from SNOCAP-USA | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2014 - Practice factors that influence antibiotic prescribing in general practice in Tayside. … Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices in ambulatory care. … Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients. … Clinical decision support and appropriateness of antimicrobial prescribing: a randomized trial. … Effects of clinical pathways for common outpatient infections on antibiotic prescribing.

79. Flexible Interventions to Decrease Antibiotic Overuse in Primary Care Practice: A Report from SNOCAP-USA | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/patient-safety-resources/advances-in-hai/hai-article6.html
    June 01, 2014 - Practice factors that influence antibiotic prescribing in general practice in Tayside. … Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices in ambulatory care. … Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients. … Clinical decision support and appropriateness of antimicrobial prescribing: a randomized trial. … Effects of clinical pathways for common outpatient infections on antibiotic prescribing.

80. AHRQ's Digital Healthcare Research Program: Federal Partnerships in Improving Health Care Quality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2020 - Pilot Projects in E-prescribing . … (e-prescribing) standards. … and assessed the impact of e-prescribing on the workflow among prescribers, nurses, the pharmacies, … Other pilots conducted needed research into ambulatory drug safety and the impact of e-prescribing on … e-prescribing adoption and what "best features" of vendor software improve medication-related safety