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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/kuilboer-mm-et-al-2006
January 01, 2006 - practice; and, the average number of antihistamine, cromoglycate, deptropine, and oral bronchodilator prescriptions … peak-flow measurements, and the ratio of coded measurements increased, whereas the number of cromoglycate prescriptions … There was a "larger decrease in the average number of cromoglycate prescriptions in the [intervention
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/resource/b1_forrest_017042_archives_2.pdf
June 16, 2021 - Amoxicillin appropriately prescribed at 15 of the 30 eligible visits
Benchmark: 80% appropriate amoxicillin prescription
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/AppendixA_Comm_Tech_For_AA_Women.pdf
February 01, 2010 - any prescriptions for the following health issues? … prescriptions for the following health issues? … any prescriptions for the following health issues? … take any prescriptions for the following health issues? … open-ended number
4
How many times in the
past year have you used
an illegal drug or used a
prescription
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/value-new-drug-labeling-knowledge-e-prescribing
January 01, 2023 - Evaluation of the VA/KP problem list subset of SNOMED as a clinical terminology for electronic prescription … Evaluation of the VA/KP problem list subset of SNOMED as a clinical terminology for electronic prescription
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digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/weissman-joel
January 01, 2023 - , and Cost
Primary medication non-adherence: analysis of 195,930 electronic prescriptions … Primary medication non-adherence: analysis of 195,930 electronic prescriptions.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/medication-management-elderly-slides-081811.pdf
August 18, 2011 - If You Can’t Read It, You Can’t
Heed It…
•~1/3rd of
patients do
not read
leaflets for
NEW
prescriptions … Misinterpretation of prescription drug warning
labels
• Do Not Chew or Crush; Swallow Whole
• Chew … Misinterpretation of prescription drug
labels
• Take Two Tablets Twice Daily
• 70.7% of low literate … Literacy and Misunderstanding Prescription Drug Labels. … overwhelmingly believe that their primary care physician
is automatically and fully informed about prescriptions
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digital.ahrq.gov/events/national-web-conference-e-prescribing-and-medication-management-current-realities-and-future
January 01, 2023 - survey of physician attitudes toward e-prescribing of controlled substances, as well as plans to combine prescription
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/facilitators-and-barriers-adoption-successful-urban-telemedicine-model/annual-summary/2012
January 01, 2012 - Among the 2011 visits, 55 percent resulted in a prescription. … Because this value is similar to the proportion of in-person illness visits yielding a prescription,
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/assessment-pediatric-look-alike-sound-alike-substitution-errors
January 01, 2023 - errors have been studied in the pediatric population, the frequency of LASA-specific errors in pediatric prescriptions … Children
Using pharmacy data to screen for look-alike, sound-alike substitution errors in pediatric prescriptions … Using pharmacy data to screen for look-alike, sound-alike substitution errors in pediatric prescriptions
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r01hs015038-friedman-final-report-2007.pdf
January 01, 2007 - Prescriptions and associated instructions are,
infrequently today, conveyed directly to hospitalized … in-hospital care for the new
transplant patient and are often responsible for writing the discharge prescriptions … numerous
additional personnel.xxiii Accordingly, previous assumptions that physicians accurately write prescriptions … parts of the prescription and receive an explanation of what
it was. … Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
195(4):531-8, 2002
xxiv Health Literacy: A Prescription
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/survey/use-web-based-health-information.pdf
June 16, 2021 - exercise, or your weight
�Typed information on a website about a chronic illness you have
�Renewed a prescription … about a chronic illness
�Track your diet and calories �Track your exercise
�Remind you when to take prescriptions … health
�Getting a reminder for when you need a test, like a mammogram or immunization
�Renewing prescription
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/evaluation-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/experience
January 01, 2023 -
facilitates "the future implementation of an electronic prescribing system [by modeling] prescription … Wogen S et al. 2003 "Improving the efficiency of the prescription process and promoting plan adherence …
describes "the impact of introducing an automated electronic prescription process in large primary
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/resource/Dataform_4_ADE_Incident_Identification_Form.pdf
June 16, 2021 - Indicate the prescription number ____ . ____
6. Category of complication ____ 1. … Illegible length of
treatment
____ 1.07 Illegible amount to be
dispensed
____ 1.08 Entire prescription
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/value-technology-transfer-discharge-information/annual-summary/2009
January 01, 2009 - Consequently, hospitalists had to re-enter patient demographic data and prescription data that already … In addition, electronic transmittal of prescriptions was not commonplace. … Pharmacists gave high satisfaction scores for discharge prescriptions from both groups.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/evaluation-spread-and-scale-patienttoc-primary-care-community-pharmacy
March 31, 2024 - Typically, adherence is monitored by prescribing providers during in-person visits or may be informed by prescription … However, relying on infrequent visits does not provide timely information, and merely filling a prescription
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/u19hs021093-lambert-final-report-2017.pdf
January 01, 2017 - In
the United States, roughly one per thousand prescriptions results in the wrong drug being filled … To further investigate this type of error, we searched for all prescriptions for cycloserine at UI Health … errors—the type most likely to be the result of name
confusion—is roughly 0.13%.5 With 3.9 billion prescriptions … method but is time consuming, expensive, and does
not scale to allow analysis of large numbers of prescriptions … Using pharmacy data to screen for look-alike, sound-alike
substitution errors in pediatric prescriptions
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/assessment-pediatric-look-alike-sound-alike-substitution-errors/annual-summary/2012
January 01, 2012 - errors have been studied in the pediatric population, the frequency of LASA-specific errors in pediatric prescriptions … the highest risk of causing harm through LASA errors and is refining a method for flagging individual prescriptions … Even if the percentage of error in these new prescriptions is 10 percent, the fact that 3 percent of
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/optimizing-medication-history-value-clinical-encounters-elderly-patients/annual-summary/2011
January 01, 2011 - systems are integrated with pharmacy chains, making medication histories and information on unfilled prescriptions … Physicians who used the e-prescribing application and network to transmit prescriptions to pharmacies … medication were coded into themes including general information, knowledge of the drug, discussion of the prescription
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r18hs026877-vandenberg-final-report-2022.pdf
January 01, 2022 - More than half of older adults
discharged from the ED leave with a new prescription medication.1,2 … We aim to reduce PIMs in an ED to less than 5% of all prescription. … to
monthly PIM prescription proportions prescribed to patients aged 65 years and older and discharged … prescriptions would decline and that
prescriptions for the muscle relaxant alternative baclofen would … same due to the lack of an order set that suggested any alternative prescription
guidance.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/decreasing-ades-montana-frontier-critical-access-hospitals-through-hit
January 01, 2023 - However, the system appears to have improved the overall reporting of prescription, transcription, and