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21. Changing Patterns of Medication Use in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis in a Medicaid Population | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    March 30, 2009 - The proportion of patients who had a current DMARD prescription on the index date increased from 62% … adults aged ≤65 years. 11 By 2005, the State of Tennessee had one of the highest number of narcotic prescriptions … Prescription opioid use among older adults with arthritis or low back pain. … Trends in prescription drug expenditures by Medicaid enrollees. … A Blue Report on High Prescription Drug Use in Tennessee and its Consequences. Blue Series.

22. CER 229 Evidence Summary: Opioid Treatments for Chronic Pain (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2020 - In the United States, prescription of opioid medications for chronic pain more than tripled from 1999 … From 1999 to 2014, over 165,000 people died from overdose related to prescription opioids in the United … States,5 with an estimated 17,087 prescription opioid overdose deaths in 2016.2 In October 2017, the … Vital signs: overdoses of prescription opioid pain relievers--United States, 1999-2008. … Prescription of long-acting opioids and mortality in patients with chronic noncancer pain.

23. Health Literacy | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    September 30, 2009 - Research Protocol Archived December 6, 2011 Communicating Harms and Benefits of Prescription

24. Medication-Assisted Treatment Models of Care for Opioid Use Disorder | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    February 29, 2016 - the Department of Health & Human Services as a national crisis. 1 OUD involves misuse or abuse of prescription … In 2014, approximately 1.9 million Americans 12 years or older were estimated to have OUD due to prescription … In 2013, an estimated 16,000 individuals died as a result of prescription opioid overdose (a 2.5-fold … America's Addiction to Opioids: Heroin and Prescription Drug Abuse. … Prescription Drug Abuse Subcommittee.

25. Diagnosis and Treatment of Clinical Alzheimer's-type Dementia (CATD) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    November 27, 2018 - KQ 4a: In adults with CATD and BPSD, what are the efficacy and harms of prescription pharmacological … KQ 4b: In adults with CATD and BPSD, does the efficacy of prescription pharmacological interventions … KQ 4c: In adults with CATD and BPSD, what are the efficacy and harms of prescription pharmacological … KQ 4d: In adults with CATD and BPSD, does the efficacy of prescription pharmacological interventions … Eliminated sleep medications for list of prescription drug categories.

26. Diagnosis and Treatment of Clinical Alzheimer's-type Dementia (CATD) (pdf file)
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    November 02, 2018 - KQ 1a: In adults with CATD, does the efficacy of prescription pharmacological interventions versus … 5 KQ3b: In adults with CATD, what are the comparative effectiveness and harms of prescription … pharmacological interventions versus other prescription pharmacological interventions for reducing … Table 1 Alpha blockers listed as a category of prescription pharmacologic treatments. … Eliminated sleep medications for list of prescription drug categories.

27. Introduction (pdf file)
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    February 01, 2009 - The proportion of patients who had a current DMARD prescription on the index date increased from 62% … adults aged ≤65 years.11 By 2005, the State of Tennessee had one of the highest number of narcotic prescriptions … Prescription opioid use among older adults with arthritis or low back pain. … Trends in prescription drug expenditures by Medicaid enrollees. … A Blue Report on High Prescription Drug Use in Tennessee and its Consequences. Blue Series.

28. Effectiveness of Isosorbide Dinitrate and Hydralazine in Racial/Ethnic Subgroups With Heart Failure | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    March 31, 2010 - Electronic data on outpatient prescriptions, comorbidity, and other risk factors on 76,828 veterans with … We calculated the span of days for which the patient had prescriptions for both hydralazine and isosorbide … Exposure to H-ISDN Overall, 3,829 of 76,828 (5.0%) patients received concurrent prescriptions for hydralazine … Once H-ISDN was initiated, concomitant prescriptions for H-ISDN covered only 41% of the follow-up time … VIReC Research User Guide: VHA Pharmacy Prescription Data. 9-20-0003. Edward J. Hines, Jr.

29. #14 SUBSTANCE ABUSE (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2013 - Opioid abuse is one of the most common forms of prescription drug abuse. … Prescription opioid abuse in chronic pain: a review of opioid abuse predictors and strategies to … Anonymous and free prescription drug drop off program. [internet]. … Available: http://www.digtriad.com/news/local/article/3036 76/327/Anonymous-And-Free-Prescription- … Project Lazarus: an innovative community response to prescription drug overdose.

30. Observed Association Between Antidepressant Use and Pneumonia Risk Was Confounded by Comorbidity Measures (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2008 - Prescriptions for chronically administered medications in the UK are issued in one-month increments. … In order to obtain repeat prescriptions (i.e., prescription refills), patients must telephone or visit … the GP office, which then issues and records a repeat prescription. … of the number of days between subsequent prescriptions for commonly used antidepressants for the same … benzodiazepine prescription, and ever past antipsychotic prescription SD denotes standard deviation

31. MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE AND HYDRALAZINE (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2010 - Electronic data on outpatient prescriptions, comorbidity, and other risk factors on 76,828 veterans … We calculated the span of days for which the patient had prescriptions for both hydralazine and isosorbide … Exposure to H-ISDN Overall, 3,829 of 76,828 (5.0%) patients received concurrent prescriptions for … Once H-ISDN was initiated, concomitant prescriptions for H-ISDN covered only 41% of the follow-up time … VIReC Research User Guide: VHA Pharmacy Prescription Data. 9-20-0003. Edward J. Hines, Jr.

32. DEcIDE 32: The Incident User Design in Comparative Effectiveness Research (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2012 - ; if the patient tolerates the sample then he may fill the prescription, which would appear later as … It’s analogous to the tradeoffs outlined above for the prescription fill date vs. the prescription date … The distinction matters when the procedure is delayed but the prescription is filled quickly. … the prescription fill date and the procedure date and accept the non-differential bias. … Patients then took the initiative to fill the prescription or undergo the procedure.

33. The Incident User Design in Comparative Effectiveness Research | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    May 15, 2012 - ; if the patient tolerates the sample then he may fill the prescription, which would appear later as … It's analogous to the tradeoffs outlined above for the prescription fill date vs. the prescription date … The distinction matters when the procedure is delayed but the prescription is filled quickly. … the prescription fill date and the procedure date and accept the non-differential bias. … Patients then took the initiative to fill the prescription or undergo the procedure.

34. Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Opioids, Opioid Misuse and Opioid Use Disorder in Older Adults: Protocol (pdf file)
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    June 29, 2019 - Prescription Opioid Data. 2018; https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/overdose.html. … Prescription Opioid Use, Misuse, and Use Disorders in U.S. … High Prevalence of Drug-Drug Interactions in Primary Health Care is Caused by Prescriptions from other … Who is addicted to, and dying from, prescription opioids? … Committee on Pain Management and Regulatory Strategies to Address Prescription Opioid Abuse., Bonnie

35. Hypertension-Drugs-Utilization Research (pdf file)
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    January 25, 2011 - Between 2007 and 2009, 87 to 88 percent of Medicare beneficiaries with hypertension used at least one prescription … Utilization files showed that 72 percent of Medicare beneficiaries filled at least one antihypertensive prescription … Hypertension Total drug cost and total out-of-pocket expense were calculated within the Medicare Part D Prescription … The PDE file contains summary records of drug dispensing information from prescription plan sponsors … of One or More Antihypertensive Drugs, by 2006-2009 HRR; Adjusted by Age Category, Gender, Number of Prescription

36. The Effectiveness and Risks of Long-term Opioid Treatment of Chronic Pain | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 19, 2013 - There has been a dramatic increase over the past 10 to 20 years in the prescription of opioid medications … In 2010, there were 16,651 fatal overdoses involving prescription opioids. 13 Prescription opioid misuse … Prescription opioids for back pain and use of medications for erectile dysfunction. … Greater number of narcotic analgesic prescriptions for osteoarthritis is associated with falls and fractures … Opioid prescriptions for chronic pain and overdose: a cohort study.

37. Survey of Medicare Part D Plans’ Medication Therapy Management Programs | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    March 16, 2007 - Abstract Purpose The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 included … The broad definition of MTM program in this Act allowed Prescription Drug Plans (PDPs) and Medicare Advantage

38. EHC Protocol: Making Healthcare Safer IV: Opioid Stewardship (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2023 - guidelines for determining whether opioids are appropriate, deciding duration, dosage and followup for prescriptions … stewardship interventions on key opioid prescribing and clinical outcomes (e.g., opioid dosage, opioid prescriptions … or per patient o Number of pills per prescription o Rates of non-opioid analgesic prescribing … studies with a comparison group, including pre-post studies Studies should include at least 50 pills, prescriptions … Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic: Balancing Societal and Individual Benefits and Risks of Prescription

39. S149 (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2007 - Results: We had data from 131,714 patients with diabetes filling prescriptions from June through December … hospitalizations, outpatient vis- its, provider specialty, total health care charges, copayments for prescriptions … copays per person in 1 year preceding index date ($) 59 51 47 22 82 Monthly total number of prescriptions … Among the 1112 prescriptions (31% of refills) which were filled late (defined as 7 days past the expected … Patients who filled only 1 prescription were not included in that calcu- lation.

40. Medicare Prescription Drug Data Development: Methods for Improving Patient Safety and Pharmacovigilance Using Observational Data | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    August 26, 2008 - The secondary tables were intended to store information on prescriptions that were filled on the same … Thus, the end date of a prescription equals the start date plus the theoretical duration of a prescription … Our study did not include the prescriptions purchased during disenrollment periods. … Such education could lead to decreases in the number of inappropriate antidementia prescriptions and … They can further modify the methodology to analyze other types of prescriptions and diseases.