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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/2011_017220_wolf_pdf_3.pdf
January 01, 2011 - Impact and Findings: The researchers on this project found gains in reducing discrepancies related to
prescription … reducing discrepancies related
to removing medicines no longer being taken and adding omitted non-prescription … intervention;
for example, desire not to remove another physician’s order, lack of perceived salience of non-prescription
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/workflowtoolkit/WhatIsWorkflow.ppt
January 01, 2009 - Results*
Flows for different kinds of tests or normal vs. abnormal
Ordering medications, including
Prescription … Without e-prescribing, the workflow might involve a provider with prescribing privileges writing a prescription … on a prescription pad, signing it, and handing it to the patient.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/health-information-technology-and-improving-medication-use/annual-summary/2011
January 01, 2011 - This project reviewed prescriptions from commercial pharmacies to identify electronic prescription (e-prescribing … The prescriptions were analyzed to determine the frequency and character of errors, and develop recommendations … The team met with the commercial e-prescribing vendor to ensure that the prescription data could be captured … The team obtained electronic prescription downloads of the data from the e-prescribing vendor, and completed … prescription review and data analysis.
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digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/lapane-kate
January 01, 2023 - Pharmacies
Analysis of community chain pharmacists' interventions on electronic prescriptions … Analysis of community chain pharmacists' interventions on electronic prescriptions. … Physicians and Community Pharmacies
Patient perceptions regarding electronic prescriptions … Patient perceptions regarding electronic prescriptions: is the geriatric patient ready?
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/evaluating_the_impact_of_2009_update_2.pdf
January 01, 2009 - the e-prescribing
system on medication errors and preventable ADEs was estimated by evaluating 5,000 prescriptions … before and 5,000 prescriptions after e-prescribing implementation. … After adjusting for site, prescriber,
and prescription type, e-prescribing tasks took marginally longer … At all three sites, nurses spent only 1.1 minutes/hour on prescription-related
tasks. … non-significantly greater amount of time
conducting computer-related tasks (3.4 minutes/hour), and conducting prescription-related
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/pilot-testing-electronic-prescribing-standards
January 01, 2023 - and pharmacy site visits; a survey of e-prescribing participants and non-participants; analyses of prescription … ePA; prescriber focus groups; and tests of the standard’s capacity to represent a sample of actual prescriptions … Thirty-seven percent of those surveyed reported use of e-prescribing for nearly all prescription, whereas … RxNorm identifiers were available for 99 percent of 19,956 non-device prescriptions and renewal requests
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/medication-without-harm-slides-07242024.pdf
January 12, 2025 - the EHR. 1,2
• Electronic prescribing, or e-prescribing, has been widely adopted. 3
• 1.9 billion e-prescriptions … • The prescription is deleted or
deactivated at the pharmacy, if
possible. … • Discontinued e-prescriptions were matched to data from pharmacy
management software to determine … when the prescriptions were
last dispensed … • Question for health system implementation
• In favor of sending
o Reduction in duplicate prescriptions
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/electronic-prescribing-using-community-utility-eprescribing-gateway
January 01, 2023 - Rx Gateway supports the transmission and renewals of prescriptions from a provider’s electronic medical … including computerized provider order entry (CPOE) applications, EMRs, RxHub, and Surescripts, comparing prescription
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/effective_use_of_e_prescribing_in_physician_practices_and_pharmacies_2010_pdf__2.pdf
January 01, 2010 - To gain the
benefits from electronic transmission of prescriptions, both physician practices and pharmacies … interviews was to explore the effects of e-prescribing among users who electronically
send or receive prescriptions … facilitators of and
barriers to their use, and the effects of e-prescribing on pharmacies ability to process prescriptions … second on physician practices’
and pharmacies’ experiences transmitting and processing electronic prescriptions
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/evaluation-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/all-workflow-tools/flowchart
January 01, 2023 - Assistant (PA) Office Visit Flowchart ( PDF , 38KB)
Post-Appointment Lab Visit Flowchart ( PDF , 49KB)
Prescription … Renewal Request Flowchart - Electronic System ( PDF , 503KB)
Prescription Renewal Request Flowchart
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digital.ahrq.gov/technology/database
January 01, 2023 - R01 HS026214
Principal Investigator(s)
Toh, Darren
First opioid prescription … First opioid prescription and subsequent high-risk opioid use: a national study of privately insured
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digital.ahrq.gov/technology/clinical-informatics
January 01, 2023 - Engineering for Complex Decisionmaking & Problem Solving in Acute Care
First opioid prescription … First opioid prescription and subsequent high-risk opioid use: a national study of privately insured
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r01hs015084-graumlich-final-report-2007.pdf
January 01, 2007 - Both the discharge software and the usual care process produced a discharge prescription. … We assessed the satisfaction of the retail pharmacist who filled the discharge prescription. … lower for prescriptions from the
discharge software, 13% (8/63), versus usual care prescriptions, 17% … In addition, electronic transmittal of prescriptions was not
commonplace. … Evaluation of a new integrated discharge prescription
form.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/electronic-prescribing-and-decision-support-improve-rural-primary-care-quality/annual-summary/2011
January 01, 2011 - an e-prescribing system with clinical decision support for medication management increases patient prescription … The project focused on two health information technology (IT) systems: 1) DrFirst Rcopia electronic prescription … Medical claims data and the e-prescribing patient-fill histories were used to determine whether patient prescription … There were a similar number of prescriptions in both the stand-alone system and after compliance and
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/disseminating-and-implementing-medsmart-families-emergency-departments
September 30, 2024 - A significant driver of this crisis is the easy access adolescents have to unused prescription opioids … Many adolescents perceive prescription opioids as safe because they are medications, while parents may
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digital.ahrq.gov/2018-year-review/research-spotlights/prototype-computerized-provider-order-entry-system-reduced
January 01, 2018 - Historically, doctors wrote prescriptions in Latin so that patients could not read the reason the medication … However, if the patient has several prescriptions, they may confuse their medications. … If the indication was recorded in the CPOE, pharmacists would have more information about the prescription
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/health-it-bibliography/electronic-prescribing-erx/case-report-activity
January 01, 2006 - To facilitate implementation of an electronic prescribing system, this case study modeled prescription … managers, physicians and nurses, and then represented the sequences of steps carried out to complete prescriptions
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/chan-ws-et-al-2008-do
January 01, 2008 - (3) "minimal users", who only ever used the computer at the end of the consultation mostly to issue prescriptions … Workflow-Related Findings
One physician was a minimal user of the system and mainly used it "for printing prescriptions … their consulations, either for reviewing notes, typing in patient's problems, typing letters and making prescriptions … still in the consulting room...They tended to type of notes with the patient at hand before making out prescriptions
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/ross-s-et-al-2005
January 01, 2005 - supported previously reported research indicating reductions in calls both to and from pharmacies for prescription … provides drug and formulary information during the prescribing process as well as the capability to submit prescriptions … .system for e-prescribing for a mean of 2 years and 5 months, and had generated 90% (mean) of their prescriptions … practices indicated...the belief that e-prescribing made it easier for the office staff to complete new prescriptions
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs023306-harle-final-report-2020.pdf
January 01, 2020 - Prescription opioids have been widely prescribed for chronic noncancer
pain, and contributed to opioid … Yet,
pharmacies dispense more than one hundred million of opioid analgesic prescriptions
yearly. … Meanwhile, prescription drug abuse and opioid use disorder reached epidemic
levels in the last decade … guideline-recommended information on one screen in the EHR, including pain-related
diagnoses, opioid prescriptions … (including morphine milligram equivalent dose),
benzodiazepine prescriptions), patient-reported pain