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  1. Clinical Informatics | Digital Healthcare Research

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    January 01, 2023 - Design and evaluation of an integrated, patient-focused electronic health record display for emergency medicine … Design and evaluation of an integrated, patient-focused electronic health record display for emergency medicine … 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

  2. Receptionist input to quality and safety in repeat prescribing in UK general practice: ethnographic case study. | PSNet

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    March 23, 2022 - found that office administrative staff played a number of roles in ensuring patient safety when issuing prescription … label: prevalence and description of discrepancies from a cross-sectional evaluation of electronic prescriptions … October 10, 2012 Management of test results in family medicine offices. … Topic Ambulatory Clinic or Office Health Care Providers Organizational Behaviorists Medicine … Family Medicine View More

  3. From guideline to order set to patient harm. | PSNet

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    October 10, 2017 - December 18, 2014 Alternatives to opioid education and a prescription drug monitoring … program cumulatively decreased outpatient opioid prescriptions. … 12, 2014 Leveraging artificial intelligence to reduce diagnostic errors in emergency medicine … September 27, 2017 Physician satisfaction with transition from CPOE to paper-based prescription … See More About The Topic Hospitals Health Care Providers Information Professionals Medicine

  4. The real malady of Marcel Proust and what it reveals about diagnostic errors in medicine. | PSNet

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    September 27, 2022 - The real malady of Marcel Proust and what it reveals about diagnostic errors in medicine … The real malady of Marcel Proust and what it reveals about diagnostic errors in medicine. … The real malady of Marcel Proust and what it reveals about diagnostic errors in medicine. … March 20, 2024 Prescription opioid dose reductions and potential adverse events: a multi-site … June 21, 2017 The thinking doctor: clinical decision making in contemporary medicine.

  5. Pharmacy dispensing of electronically discontinued medications. | PSNet

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    October 03, 2012 - care practices that use a commercial electronic medical record system, this study found that 1.5% of prescriptions … January 7, 2015 The effect of the electronic transmission of prescriptions on dispensing … errors and prescription enhancements made in English community pharmacies: a naturalistic stepped wedge … November 1, 2011 Using human error theory to explore the supply of non-prescription medicines … March 28, 2011 Accuracy of computer-generated, Spanish-language medicine labels.

  6. Associations between stopping prescriptions for opioids, length of opioid treatment, and overdose or suicide deaths in US veterans: observational evaluation. | PSNet

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    April 05, 2017 - Study Classic Associations between stopping prescriptions … Associations between stopping prescriptions for opioids, length of opioid treatment, and overdose or … November 4, 2020 Alternatives to opioid education and a prescription drug monitoring … program cumulatively decreased outpatient opioid prescriptions. … See More About The Topic Researchers Ambulatory Clinic or Office Physicians Medicine

  7. A Mistaken Dose of Naloxone  | PSNet

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    March 21, 2009 - They identified a need for alternative, proactive education plans for situations in which prescriptions … opioid or sedative drugs, and misused prescription opioids. … New England Journal of Medicine. 2016 Apr 21;374(16):1501-4.    … Preventive medicine. 2018 Sep  1;114:79 -87.    [Go to PubMed] Devries J,  Rafie  S, Polston G. … New England Journal of Medicine. 2019 Jun 13;380(24):2285-7.  

  8. Preventing Medication Errors: Quality Chasm Series. | PSNet

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    January 04, 2009 - Aspden P, Wolcott J, Bootman JL, et al, eds; Institute of Medicine, Committee on Identifying and Preventing … Copy URL June 16, 2012 Aspden P, Wolcott J, Bootman JL, et al, eds; Institute of Medicine … A major report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on medication errors suggests that, despite all the … These actions include having all US prescriptions written and dispensed electronically by 2010, more … Preventing medication errors in hospitals through a systems approach and technological innovation: a prescription

  9. Patient Experience Measures from the CAHPS Outpatient Mental Health Survey (pdf file)

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    April 02, 2025 - following composite measures, single-item measures, and rating measures: • Getting Appointments for Prescription … Getting Appointments for Prescription Medicines Q3 How difficult was it for you to make an appointment … with the person who prescribes your mental health medicine?

  10. A Lot of Pain (Medications) | PSNet

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    September 23, 2020 - Herzig, MD, MPH Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School Division of General Medicine, Beth … Chou R, Fanciullo GJ, Fine PG, et al; American Pain Society-American Academy of Pain Medicine Opioids … Policy Impact: Prescription Painkiller Overdoses. … 23, 2020 Preventability and causes of readmissions in a national cohort of general medicine … View More See More About The Topic Hospitals Health Care Providers Medicine

  11. Lapane KL, Rosen RK, Dubé C. "Perceptions of e-prescribing efficiencies and inefficiencies in ambulatory care." | Digital Healthcare Research

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    January 01, 2023 - The next closest method was computer generated fax and prescriptions in which approximately 25% rated … Clinicians appreciated the efficiency of the technology, including that it allowed them to write and send prescriptions … directly to the pharmacy while they were meeting with patients, and also that it allowed them to approve prescriptions … Internal medicine (45%) and family medicine (39%) dominated the sample.

  12. Understanding CancelRX: Impact on Clinical Workflows, Medication Safety Risks, and Patient Outcomes | Digital Healthcare Research

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    January 01, 2023 - Thus, a gap remains when prescriptions are printed, when prescriptions are reconciled from outside sources … The use of CancelRx resulted in a statistically significant reduction in the number of prescriptions … Pharmacy e-prescription dispensing before and after CancelRx implementation. … Samantha Pitts, faculty in General Medicine at Johns Hopkins, was driven by her experience as a prescribing … a provider discontinues a patient’s prescription.

  13. Archived: Drug Use, Illicit: Primary Care Interventions for Children and Adolescents | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

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    March 11, 2014 - , 4.4% of eighth-, tenth-, and twelfth-grade students reported using over-the-counter cough or cold medicine … purposes (most often an opioid pain medicine). … , 4.4% of eighth-, tenth-, and twelfth-grade students reported using over-the-counter cough or cold medicine … LeFevre, MD, MSPH, Co-Vice Chair (University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri); Albert … Siu, MD, MSPH, Co-Vice Chair (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, and James J.

  14. Quality improvement and safety in pediatric emergency medicine. | PSNet

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    March 12, 2025 - Review Quality improvement and safety in pediatric emergency medicine. … Quality Improvement and Safety in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. … Quality Improvement and Safety in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. … December 16, 2020 Radiologic safety events within a pediatric emergency medicine network … August 5, 2015 Pediatric emergency department discharge prescriptions requiring pharmacy

  15. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 9. Reducing Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults (pdf file)

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    March 01, 2020 - Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in A. … Tamura and colleagues (2011) worked with geriatric medicine fellows in a nursing facility to implement … When two STOPP criteria, the prescription of benzodiazepines or of neuroleptic drugs to patients who … Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in A. … decision support tool Design: Prospective pilot study Sample: n=50 Patient Population: General medicine

  16. Overhage JM et al. 2001 "Controlled trial of direct physician order entry: effects on physicians' time utilization in ambulatory primary care internal medicine practices." | Digital Healthcare Research

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    January 01, 2001 - physician order entry: effects on physicians' time utilization in ambulatory primary care internal medicine … physician order entry: effects on physicians' time utilization in ambulatory primary care internal medicine … Design: A randomized controlled trial of POE using the ... system in 11 primary care internal medicine … system] then uses the data to create billing documents (superbill), requisitions, consult requests, prescriptions … When entering orders, including prescriptions, physicians can create instructions by typing them in free

  17. Access to Health Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    September 01, 2015 - Medical Care People who were unable to get or delayed in getting needed medical care, dental care, or prescription … significantly more likely than males to be delayed or unable to get needed medical care, dental care, or prescription … Getting Care Women who were unable to get or delayed in getting needed medical care, dental care, or prescription … Indian and Alaska Native women to experience a delay in getting needed medical care, dental care, or prescription … and non-Hispanic Black women to experience a delay in getting needed medical care, dental care, or prescription

  18. Evaluating the Impact of an ACPOE/CDS System on Outcomes (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2007 - Data sources were the prescriptions, all documentation contained in the EHR, and the prescription as … Washington DC: Institute of Medicine/National Academy Press; 1999 4. … Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine, 2003 Accessed: 11/15/07 20. … Characterization of prescribing errors in an internal medicine clinic. … Characterization of prescribing errors in an internal medicine clinic.

  19. Summary and Next Steps in Response to Federal Register Notice (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2015 - shared decision making composite measure, arguing that the items “Reasons to start or stop taking medicine … ” and “Reasons not to start or stop taking medicine” are important because they address the challenges … medicine). … Alliance for Health American Academy of Family Physicians American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine … Center UNC Health Care UNC Health Care - Outpatient Care Services University of Colorado - School of Medicine

  20. National surveillance of emergency department visits for outpatient adverse drug events in children and adolescents. | PSNet

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    March 24, 2021 - August 24, 2022 Association of inappropriate outpatient pediatric antibiotic prescriptions … April 6, 2022 Alternatives to opioid education and a prescription drug monitoring program … cumulatively decreased outpatient opioid prescriptions. … August 24, 2022 Pharmacist outpatient prescription review in the emergency department … Pediatric Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Side Effects/Adverse Drug Reactions View More
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