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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/hospitals-win-safety-award-simple-changes
September 06, 2006 - May 20, 2020
Drug-drug interactions and prescription appropriateness at hospital discharge … August 28, 2019
Medicine Safety: Take Care. … The Topic
Hospitals
Health Care Providers
Health Care Executives and Administrators
Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-comprehension-emergency-department-care-and-instructions-are-patients-aware-when-they
September 23, 2020 - correlations between limited health literacy and misunderstanding of instructions (such as those on prescription … October 18, 2023
Education outcomes from a duty-hour flexibility trial in internal medicine … View More
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Emergency Departments
Emergency Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/anatomy-cyberattack-part-4-quality-assurance-and-error-reduction-billing-and-compliance
April 27, 2022 - April 27, 2022
Incidence of prescription errors in patients discharged from the emergency … October 13, 2021
Machine learning is booming in medicine. … More
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Hospitals
Information Professionals
Hospital Medicine … Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impact-non-interruptive-medication-laboratory-monitoring-alerts-ambulatory-care
March 10, 2011 - March 11, 2011
Adherence to black box warnings for prescription medications in outpatients … April 14, 2011
Management of test results in family medicine offices. … See More About The Topic
Ambulatory Clinic or Office
Information Professionals
Family Medicine … Primary Care
General Internal Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medication-errors-recovered-emergency-department-pharmacists
December 31, 2014 - March 6, 2015
Emergency department discharge prescription interventions by emergency … medicine pharmacists. … August 8, 2012
Effect of emergency medicine pharmacists on medication-error reporting … Emergency Departments
Pharmacists
Risk Managers
Quality and Safety Professionals
Emergency Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/inpatient-suicide-preventing-common-sentinel-event
May 28, 2015 - December 21, 2014
An automated, dynamic radiation oncology prescription checking system … January 10, 2024
Emergency medicine physicians' perspectives on diagnostic accuracy in … More About The Topic
Hospitals
Health Care Providers
Risk Managers
General Internal Medicine … Hospital Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medication-without-harm-whos-third-global-patient-safety-challenge
July 14, 2021 - information about a worldwide effort to improve medication safety by examining elements of medication prescription … More
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Hospitals
Facility and Group Administrators
Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effect-different-interventions-help-primary-care-clinicians-avoid-unsafe-opioid-prescribing
October 26, 2022 - August 4, 2021
Alternatives to opioid education and a prescription drug monitoring program … cumulatively decreased outpatient opioid prescriptions. … label: prevalence and description of discrepancies from a cross-sectional evaluation of electronic prescriptions … Ambulatory Clinic or Office
Quality and Safety Professionals
Information Professionals
Family Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/diagnostic-error-medicine-analysis-583-physician-reported-errors
June 24, 2009 - Study
Classic
Diagnostic error in medicine: analysis of … Diagnostic error in medicine: analysis of 583 physician-reported errors. … Diagnostic error in medicine: analysis of 583 physician-reported errors. … Analysis of 4 million outpatient prescriptions. … October 31, 2014
The value of autopsies in the era of high-tech medicine: discrepant
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/overrides-medication-related-clinical-decision-support-alerts-outpatients
September 01, 2016 - observational study of outpatient clinical decision support found that approximately 53% of alerts in prescriptions … May 10, 2017
Adherence to black box warnings for prescription medications in outpatients … September 1, 2016
Differences of reasons for alert overrides on contraindicated co-prescriptions … Care Providers
Quality and Safety Professionals
Information Professionals
General Internal Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/defensive-medicine-glowing-pain
November 01, 2012 - He was discharged home with a prescription for hydrocodone/acetaminophen (Vicodin). … How can physicians stem the tide of defensive medicine and practice medicine and surgery in a patient-centered … of doctors practice defensive medicine. … Defensive Medicine and Medical Malpractice. … Internal Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/large-language-model-influence-diagnostic-reasoning-randomized-clinical-trial
November 03, 2021 - In this study, internal medicine physicians were randomized to use conventional (eg, UpToDate) or conventional … November 16, 2022
Prevalence of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions among US ambulatory … Analysis of lawsuits related to diagnostic errors from point-of-care ultrasound in internal medicine … , paediatrics, family medicine and critical care in the USA. … Family Medicine
Internal Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/rx-errors-speed-high-volume-can-trigger-mistakes
September 24, 2017 - January 23, 2019
Getting the wrong person's medicine at the pharmacy: easy steps consumers … August 24, 2018
Prescription drug time guarantees and their impact on patient safety … June 29, 2011
Buying the wrong medicine overseas.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/understanding-role-facility-design-acquisition-and-prevention-healthcare-associated
March 28, 2018 - October 23, 2013
The contribution of prescription chart design and familiarity to prescribing … October 9, 2013
The best medicine for fixing the modern hospital. … Health Care Executives and Administrators
Safety Scientists
Engineers
General Internal Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/deadly-duo
April 28, 2021 - In 2005, 169.9 million outpatient prescriptions for antidepressants were dispensed in the United States … .( 7 ) Among prescribers, the top medical specialties included psychiatry (29.3%), general practice ( … Incredibly, antidepressants have become the most prescribed medications in the United States, with more prescriptions … Thus, SSRIs have the potential to alter the metabolism of co-administered prescription and over-the-counter … University School of Medicine References 1.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/cdc-clinical-practice-guideline-prescribing-opioids-pain-united-states-2022
September 23, 2020 - opioids for pain; selecting opioids and determining opioid dosages; deciding duration of initial opioid prescription … Related Resources
Ambulatory medication errors and adverse events involved in medicine-related … About The Topic
Ambulatory Clinic or Office
Health Care Providers
Primary Care
Internal Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-safety-goals-proposed-federal-health-information-technology-safety-center
November 30, 2011 - The Institute of Medicine and the Food and Drug Administration have called for the establishment … January 16, 2019
A prescription for enhancing electronic prescribing safety. … The Topic
Quality and Safety Professionals
Information Professionals
Policy Makers
Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/investigating-prevalence-and-causes-prescribing-errors-general-practice-practice-study
May 24, 2015 - Examining prescription errors in general practices in England, this report suggests that information … label: prevalence and description of discrepancies from a cross-sectional evaluation of electronic prescriptions … See More About The Topic
Ambulatory Care
Physicians
Policy Makers
Family Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/early-death-after-discharge-emergency-departments-analysis-national-us-insurance-claims-data
June 25, 2018 - June 25, 2018
Adverse events and emergency department opioid prescriptions in adolescents … December 16, 2020
Emergency department contribution to the prescription opioid epidemic … January 23, 2019
Understanding diagnostic safety in emergency medicine: a case‐by‐case … More About The Topic
Emergency Departments
Facility and Group Administrators
Emergency Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/fifth-discipline-art-practice-learning-organization-revised-updated-edition
May 12, 2010 - safety, such as Leape’s classic 1994 Journal of the American Medical Association commentary, Error in Medicine … April 21, 2021
Alternatives to opioid education and a prescription drug monitoring program … cumulatively decreased outpatient opioid prescriptions.