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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/evaluating-impact-acpoecds-system-outcomes/annual-summary/2009
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. … Characterization of prescribing errors in an internal medicine clinic.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/value-technology-transfer-discharge-information/annual-summary/2009
January 01, 2009 - Study participants were internal medicine hospitalist physicians at a teaching hospital and patients … 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/sites/default/files/docs/overcoming-barriers-slides-090512.pdf
September 05, 2012 - like faxed or paper prescriptions
■ More e-prescribing vendors were being
enabled for new prescriptions … Bell, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, UCLA
Department of Medicine
Research Scientist, RAND Corporation … Launch
► “Prescription Pad” Handout
Dear Pharmacist:
My prescription … Electronic prescriptions should also save you time by giving your
prescription a head start to the pharmacy … We are also handling
prescription renewals electronically with your pharmacy.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs018183-weiner-final-report-2013.pdf
January 01, 2013 - We included patients admitted to the Medicine Service
between 15 November 2010 and 30 April 2012, and … Approximately 20% of medical errors are
related to prescription of medications. … Since prescriptions at hospital discharge are intended to be followed in ambulatory care,
improving … transitional and ambulatory care requires attention to the discharge prescriptions. … Interventions
At the start of hospital rotations on the Medicine Service, institutional pharmacists
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/using-health-information-technology-improve-ambulatory-chronic-disease-care/annual-summary/2011
January 01, 2011 - To improve patient care quality and safety, the Family Medicine and General Internal Medicine practices … innovations are the result of collaboration between MU clinicians from the Department of Family and Community Medicine … The Web portal included secure messaging (including prescription requests), medical record review (including
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/p20hs015325-hartzema-final-report-2005.pdf
January 01, 2005 - Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality Health Care in America. … Can you estimate the number of prescriptions filled per day in your hospital? … If you can, please estimate
prescriptions per day by drug class.
20. … How many fax machines are needed for transmission of prescriptions for remote prescription order review … Where should fax machines be located in your hospital for transmission or prescriptions to a remote prescription
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digital.ahrq.gov/2018-year-review/research-summary/emerging-innovative-newly-funded-research/using-patient-reported-data-reduce-opioid-use-dental-patients
January 01, 2018 - Kalenderian, of the University of California San Francisco School of Dentistry and Harvard School of Dental Medicine … procedures can help dental providers track patients’ pain more effectively in real time and modify prescription
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/patient-clinician-communication-slides-121812.pdf
January 01, 2020 - Inactive or
undocumented med in
EHR Med List
NA (physician notified via EHR)
Medication Use On prescription … In the past year, have you ever given your child liquid
or pill cold medicine? … (35) 56 (22) 0.31
Visit Content:
Medication Review
For parents of children on at least one
prescription … Deconstructing Medication Use and “Adherence”
– Reconcile meds with providers
– Fill/refill prescriptions … High Prevalence
– 45% to 55% across CVD/Diabetes
– 20% to 35% in HIV/AIDS
– 20% Unfilled New Prescriptions
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/using-information-technology-patient-centered-communication-and-decisionmaking/annual-summary/2011
January 01, 2011 - Impact and Findings: The researchers on this project found gains in reducing discrepancies related to prescription … in 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/program-overview/research-stories/breathing-easy-virtual-medication-education-patients-chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease
January 01, 2023 - Prescription medicines can help control COPD symptoms, but patients are often readmitted to the hospital … the University of Chicago showed that sometimes patients don’t know the proper technique to get the medicine
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/berman-h-2009-response
January 01, 2009 - Type Clinic
Primary care
Type Specific
Internal medicine
Size
Small and/or medium … Other Information
The internal medicine physician had 7,065 patient visits each year and the surgeon … I think that this is because more tasks are completed in one sitting (lab ordering, prescriptions written
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017196-jack-final-report-2011.pdf
January 01, 2011 - For each
prescription, the pharmacist had the patient read the name of the medication aloud; describe … First, the patient had his or her prescribed medicine at home, was taking the medicine, but
was not … This included new prescriptions made during the recent
hospitalization, as well as standing prescriptions … During that conversation, the patient stated that she never received the paper prescriptions for
two … Unfortunately, the patient had not yet filled this prescription.
Table 1.
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/tierney-wm-et-al-2003
January 01, 2003 - Type Clinic
Primary care
Type Specific
Internal medicine
Size
Large
Geography … The pharmacist had 3 options: fill the prescription(s) as usual, discuss the suggestion(s) with the patient … [But,] many physicians felt that guidelines were oversimplified 'cookbook' medicine, too rigid to apply
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/Event%20Transcipt%20August.pdf
August 27, 2009 - Michael Fischer is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at
Harvard Medical School, as well as an Associate … Saul Winegard demonstrated in a paper in the Archives of Internal Medicine back in 2003, and
he was … 10% of total prescriptions in the United States. … That is, non-medical users or abusers of prescription drugs. … comprise about a quarter of their
prescriptions.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/tele-toc-telehealth-education-leveraging-electronic-transitions-care-copd-patients
January 01, 2023 - medication adherence and inhaler education post-hospitalization is imperative to reduce the misuse of prescriptions … Prescription medicines can help control COPD symptoms, but patients are often readmitted to the hospital … the University of Chicago showed that sometimes patients don’t know the proper technique to get the medicine
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/survey/pcip-evaluation-provider-survey.pdf
June 16, 2021 - Writing prescriptions
14. Renewing prescriptions
15. … patient chart documentation (e.g., problems list, medication list, vital signs)
Computer orders for prescriptions … General Practice
Family Practice
Internal Medicine
Ob/Gyn
Pediatrics
Behavioral specialist
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/integrating-patient-reported-outcomes-and-electronic-health-record-data-improve
January 01, 2023 - A recent study of electronic prescriptions found that 26 percent of new prescriptions for antidepressants … (Prepared by University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine under Grant
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/rural-trial-clinic-order-entry-decision-support
January 01, 2023 - Preventive Care
Primary Care
Health Care Theme
Medication Safety
Preventive Medicine … The core utility of the tool is electronic writing of outpatient orders, including prescriptions, immunizations … tool and ten other rural primary care practices assigned to continue paper-based writing of outpatient prescriptions
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/goldman-re-soran-cs
January 01, 2023 - Participants viewed laboratory monitoring as a critical, time‐consuming task integral to their practice of medicine … Some require patients to come into the office to obtain refill prescriptions every few months. … postintervention (no control group)
Study Participants
Total of 29 physicians participated: 20 internal medicine … or family medicine and 9 specialists.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/e-prescribing-toolset-pharmacy.pdf
January 01, 2020 - RAND
Corporation; Point of Care Partners, LLC; University of California, Los Angeles; University of
Medicine … In pharmacies that are not yet
enabled for electronic prescriptions, the prescription is converted into … Profile Each Prescription! … utilize, the degree to which e-prescriptions are integrated into the overall flow of prescription … In addition to handling the
basic standards for prescriptions and prescription claims, Medicare Part