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1. 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 - Medicare Prescription Drug Data Development: Methods for Improving Patient Safety and Pharmacovigilance … Topic Initiated August 26, 2008 Research Report Medicare Prescription

2. 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.

3. Product Search | Effective Health Care Program
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   September 23, 2021 - Home » Products » Medicare Prescription Drug Data Development: Methods for Improving Patient

4. S77 (pdf file)
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   October 01, 2007 - Prescription activity was expressed as the number of prescriptions filled through the VA pharmacy during … During the prior year, 657 (42%) of this modeled group filled no prescriptions at the VA. … Medicare Data Update: Prescription Drug Coverage Among Beneficiaries. June 2006. … Information for Veterans About the New Medicare Prescription Drug Benefits. August 15, 2006. … The health effects of restricting prescription medication use because of cost.

5. 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

6. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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   February 02, 2021 - We need a comprehensive review of current home supplemental oxygen prescriptions. … Current practice uses prescription based on liters per minute outputs. … Add in the fact that CMS has statutory requirement calling for oxygen prescriptions to include liters … per minute as part of its payment formula These conditions combine to perpetuate obsolete prescription … Change the prescription for supplemental oxygen from liters per minute to targeted saturation ranges

7. Prescription Drug Abuse | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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8. Prescription Drug Abuse | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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9. Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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10. 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

11. Communicating Harms and Benefits of Prescription Drugs to Healthcare Consumers (ppt file)
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    December 01, 2006 - Communicating Harms and Benefits of Prescription Drugs to Healthcare Consumers Communicating Harms … and Benefits of Prescription Drugs to Healthcare Consumers John M.

12. P A W S, Prescription for Antibiotics or Wait and See: Ear Infections: Are Antibiotics the Right Choice for You? (pdf file)
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    January 26, 2013 - P A W S, Prescription for Antibiotics or Wait and See: Ear Infections: Are Antibiotics the Right Choice … P A W S Prescription for Antibiotics or Wait and See Ear Infections Are Antibiotics the Right … Speak with your pharmacist about your medication choices and ask questions about your prescriptions … Or your provider may give you a prescription to fill and start today.

13. S9 (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2007 - Because PDE data are highly sensitive, only summary data on the number of Part D prescriptions filled … Coverage for the prescription drug benefit is provided under various types of prescription drug plans … ) prescription drug plans (MA-PDPs), which offer prescription drug coverage that is integrated with the … available access to these beneficiary-specific data exists except for summary data on the number of Part D prescriptions … Estimated Prescriptions Filled for Medicare Beneficiaries With Drug Coverage Stand-Alone Prescription

14. S66 (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2007 - Patients who filled 1 or more prescriptions for these regimens were the subjects of this study. … Under TennCare mandate, prescriptions are generally filled for a time interval no longer than 30 days … Time to Stop Filling DMARD Prescriptions Patients stopped filling their prescriptions for more than … Prescription opioid use among older adults with arthritis or low back pain. … Trends in prescription drug expenditures by Medicaid enrollees.

15. Who Uses Exenatide For Glucose Control in Diabetes Mellitus? A Retrospective Cohort Study of a New Therapy | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    August 04, 2010 - hospitalizations, outpatient visits, provider specialty, total health care charges, co-payments for prescriptions … Use of Exenatide We received data on 5,601 patients who filled prescriptions for exenatide. … Only 12% of the earliest users had not filled prescriptions for other hypoglycemic medication in the … The groups were similar in the mean number of monthly prescriptions filled and the out-of-pocket costs … 1303 Mean monthly copay for exenatide per person ($) 27 31 42 Mean monthly total number of prescriptions

16. Communicating Harms and Benefits of Prescription Drugs to Health Care Consumers (Eisenberg Center Conference Series 2006) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    September 30, 2006 - Communicating Harms and Benefits of Prescription Drugs to Health Care Consumers (Eisenberg Center Conference … September 30, 2006 White Paper Communicating Harms and Benefits of Prescription

17. Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of New Therapies (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2010 - hospitalizations, outpatient visits, provider specialty, total health care charges, co-payments for prescriptions … Use of Exenatide We received data on 5,601 patients who filled prescriptions for exenatide. … Only 12% of the earliest users had not filled prescriptions for other hypoglycemic medication in the … The groups were similar in the mean number of monthly prescriptions filled and the out-of-pocket costs … of patients filling a thiazolidinedione 27.7 25.0 41.8 58.7 58.0 59.1 Mean monthly total number of prescriptions

18. Antibiotics-Respiratory-Infection Clinician (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2016 - Nevertheless, most outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in the United States are for acute RTIs. … procalcitonin, blood CRP); tympanometry to aid in diagnosing AOM; delayed antibiotic prescribing (e.g., giving prescriptions … to patients with instructions to delay filling, leaving prescriptions for patient collection, postdating … prescriptions, requesting recontact with clinician); clinical scoring tools based on combinations of

19. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Medications and Risk of Serious Cardiovascular Disease in Children and Youth | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    November 01, 2011 - Measurements Baseline and follow-up drug use was assessed from automated records of dispensed prescriptions

20. S58 (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2007 - They offer a detailed, longitudinal record of utilization, diagnoses, procedures, and prescriptions across … information on healthcare encoun- ters, their accompanying recorded diagnoses and procedures, and filled prescriptions … Use/adherence is not necessarily implied by filling of prescriptions and receipt of services. … Measures of Prescription Drug Use Prescription fill data are widely used to examine dura- tion and consistency … Filled prescriptions, repre- senting a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for drug ingestion