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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/mindfulness-slides.html
December 01, 2017 - Director, Hospital Medicine Program
Director, Hospital Medicine Safety Consortium
University of Michigan … A lot of in-patient antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary or sub-optimal. … Focused on post-prescription review of broad spectrum agents (but not quinolones)
25.4% decrease in … Professor of Medicine
Director, Hospital Medicine Program
Director, Hospital Medicine Safety Consortium … Results show a lower rate of prescription or adjusted dosages.
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integrationacademy.ahrq.gov/news-and-events/news/opioid-use-disorder-resources-october-2017-update
October 31, 2017 - is external) (Office on Women’s Health)—OUD has been increasing at alarming rates, with deaths from prescription … Epidemic: A New Interactive Guide (link is external) (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine … report Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic: Balancing Societal and Individual Benefits and Risks of Prescription … prescribing and education, concluding that physicians trained at top medical schools write fewer opioid prescriptions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/methodological-variations-and-their-effects-reported-medication-administration-error-rates
January 15, 2025 - January 15, 2025
The effect of the electronic transmission of prescriptions on dispensing … errors and prescription enhancements made in English community pharmacies: a naturalistic stepped wedge … Topic
Hospitals
Quality and Safety Professionals
Safety Scientists
General Internal Medicine … Hospital Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/life-error-little-slips-big-disasters
October 04, 2017 - August 2, 2016
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Diagnostic Error in Medicine … December 6, 2013
The contribution of prescription chart design and familiarity to prescribing … More About The Topic
Risk Managers
Quality and Safety Professionals
Safety Scientists
Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/multiple-levels-involved-prescribing-wrong-medication
December 23, 2020 - The patient filled her prescription the same day and started using the medication that same evening. … Although the pharmacist dispensed the prescription as it was prescribed, it was the incorrect prescription … As the technician and pharmacist review the prescription during data entry, they can check the prescription … must exercise their professional judgment by contacting the prescriber when they identify errors in prescriptions … The Swiss Cheese Prescribing Model for Precision Medicine [published online ahead of print, 2020 Jun
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/60977/psn-pdf
January 08, 2020 - The patient filled her prescription the
same day and started using the medication that same evening. … Although the pharmacist dispensed the prescription as it was prescribed, it was the incorrect
prescription … As the technician and pharmacist review the prescription during data entry, they can check the
prescription … must exercise their professional judgment by contacting the prescriber when they
identify errors in prescriptions … The Swiss Cheese Prescribing Model for Precision Medicine
[published online ahead of print, 2020 Jun
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/investigating-influence-selected-leadership-styles-patient-safety-and-quality-care-systematic
October 07, 2020 - patient safety indicators,
October 7, 2020
Alternatives to opioid education and a prescription … drug monitoring program cumulatively decreased outpatient opioid prescriptions. … September 13, 2023
Lessons for Work-Life Wellness in Academic Medicine: Parts 1-3. … View More
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Hospitals
Ambulatory Clinic or Office
Medicine
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/BackgroundReport082310.pdf
May 01, 2010 - Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine. … This report is the 2007 annual report of the Institute of Medicine roundtable on evidence-
based medicine … Similarly, reports focusing on evidence-
based medicine (e.g., Institute of Medicine, 2007, 2008b; McClellan … of Medicine, 2001), and Building a Better Delivery System (Institute of Medicine and
National Academy … Institute of Medicine.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/top-five-review-post-pandemic-patient-safety-priorities
July 10, 2024 - July 10, 2024
Prescription for Improving Patient Safety: Addressing Medication Errors … The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today. … June 27, 2011
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Hospitals
Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/getting-started-communication-and-resolution-program-crp-policy-or-commitment-statement-cr
February 28, 2024 - March 14, 2018
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: Evidence-based Practices to Optimize … When mistakes multiply: how inadequate responses to medical mishaps erode trust in American medicine … Topic
Hospitals
Ambulatory Clinic or Office
Health Care Executives and Administrators
Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/failure-mode-and-effect-analysis-reliable
August 15, 2012 - January 15, 2025
The effect of the electronic transmission of prescriptions on dispensing … errors and prescription enhancements made in English community pharmacies: a naturalistic stepped wedge … Topic
General Hospitals
Risk Managers
Quality and Safety Professionals
General Internal Medicine … Hospital Medicine
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/match/chapter-1.html
July 01, 2022 - A study utilized 12 years of administrative records of all hospitalizations and outpatient prescriptions … older to determine (1) continuous use of at least 1 of 5 medication classes and (2) failure to renew prescriptions … Medications to inquire about should include current prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medications … During this hospital stay, were you given any medicine that you had not taken before? … Before giving you any new medicine, how often did hospital staff tell you what the medicine was for?
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs024587-schnipper-final-report-2019.pdf
January 01, 2019 - Eligible patients included
adults admitted to any inpatient medical service (including general medicine … In addition, most patients admitted to medicine through
the Emergency Department had a “best possible … Society of Hospital
Medicine Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, 2017.
2. … Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2018.
Presentations:
1. … Journal of hospital medicine 2016;11(1):48-51 doi: 10.1002/jhm.2446[published Online First:
Epub Date
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ambulatory-prescribing-errors-among-community-based-providers-two-states
July 10, 2008 - Nearly one in four prescriptions contained at least one error in dosing, frequency, or patient instructions … , and a startling proportion of prescriptions had illegibility errors as well. … label: prevalence and description of discrepancies from a cross-sectional evaluation of electronic prescriptions … Topic
Ambulatory Clinic or Office
Outpatient Pharmacy
Physicians
Pharmacists
Family Medicine
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/UaT8AVUSVQwSduNs8TA-_e
June 09, 2020 - Tools with questions about nonmedical use of prescription drugs
(eg, TAPS [Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription … that occur when the result of screening is punitive
• The benefits and harms of providing prophylactic prescriptions … Chapel Hill (Donahue); Mayo Clinic, Rochester,
Minnesota (Doubeni); Virginia Tech Carilion School
of Medicine … Pacific Health Research
and Education Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii (Tseng);
Tufts University School of Medicine … Society for
Adolescent Health and Medicine. Published 2019.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/opioid-prescribing-decreases-after-learning-patients-fatal-overdose
January 18, 2023 - Prior studies have shown that patients frequently receive opioid prescriptions even if they have a history … Topics in Medication Safety
March 31, 2022
Physicians' perspectives regarding prescription … April 7, 2019
California doctors alarmed as state links their opioid prescriptions to … , 2016
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Hospitals
Physicians
Medicine
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2023qdr-meps-methods.pdf
December 01, 2023 - Adults age 65 and over who received potentially inappropriate prescription medications in
the calendar … year—Prescription medications received include all prescribed medications
initially purchased or otherwise … vaccination in the calendar year
40-59, 60+
People with current asthma who are now taking preventive medicine … measure: People who were unable to get or
delayed in getting needed medical care, dental care, or
prescription … replaced with people who were unable to get
or delayed in getting needed care (medical, dental, or prescription
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/medication-errors-retail-pharmacies-wrong-patient-wrong-instructions
March 19, 2019 - up her prescription for ondansetron. … pharmacies in six metropolitan areas estimated that 51.5 million dispensing errors occur among the 3 billion prescriptions … dispensed annually in the United States, or four errors per day in a typical pharmacy filling 250 prescriptions … Use and implementation of standard operating procedures and checklists in prehospital emergency medicine … June 16, 2019
Getting the wrong person's medicine at the pharmacy: easy steps consumers
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/relationship-between-patients-perception-care-and-measures-hospital-quality-and-safety
February 13, 2019 - December 21, 2014
Four states with robust prescription drug monitoring programs reduced … of Hospital Medicine-American Geriatrics Society-American College of Emergency Physicians-Society of … Academic Emergency Medicine. … Hospitals
Health Care Providers
Health Care Executives and Administrators
General Internal Medicine … Hospital Medicine
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July 14, 2010 - Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2010;12(3). doi:10.1097/pcc.0b013e3181fe25a1. … Pediatric Critical Care Medicine . 2010; 12 (3) . … Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2010;12(3). doi:10.1097/pcc.0b013e3181fe25a1. … March 4, 2011
Characterization of prescribing errors in an internal medicine clinic. … June 1, 2011
Identifying medication errors in surgical prescription charts.