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psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.260_slideshow.ppt
February 01, 2012 - The physician reassured the patient that he didn’t need a paper prescription and could simply go to the … or prescription-related information from prescriber (physician, nurse practitioner, etc.) to pharmacy … , atenolol, a prescription intended for a different patient. … Brigham and Women’s safely dispenses prescriptions with SP Central Workflow. … Transmitting and processing electronic prescriptions: experiences of physician practices and pharmacies
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-quality-written-prescriptions-general-hospital-influence-10-years-serial-audits-and
August 24, 2022 - Study
Improving the quality of written prescriptions in a general hospital: the influence … Improving the quality of written prescriptions in a general hospital: the influence of 10 years of serial … Improving the quality of written prescriptions in a general hospital: the influence of 10 years of serial
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/pharmacy-e-prescription-dispensing-and-after-cancelrx-implementation
October 05, 2022 - Study
Pharmacy e-prescription dispensing before and after CancelRx implementation … Pharmacy e-prescription dispensing before and after CancelRx implementation. … After CancelRx implementation, the proportion of e-prescriptions sold after discontinuation in the EHR … Pharmacy e-prescription dispensing before and after CancelRx implementation. … September 1, 2021
Impact of CancelRx on discontinuation of controlled substance prescriptions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47579/psn-pdf
December 12, 2018 - A prescription for enhancing electronic prescribing
safety. … A Prescription For Enhancing Electronic Prescribing Safety. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/prescription-enhancing-electronic-prescribing-safety
Although electronic … interaction alerts and inclusion of free-text notes that
contain inaccurate information within electronic prescriptions … They suggest including drug indications on prescriptions, ensuring a readily available
and accurate
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psnet.ahrq.gov/print/pdf/node/867658
January 26, 2022 - Safe prescribing dictates that prescriptions should only be written for the patients who are intended … Using claims data, this analysis identified a high rate of opioid
prescriptions written for and filled … Adverse events and emergency department opioid prescriptions in adolescents. … patient-safety-events-involving-opioid-dose-stacking
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/adverse-events-and-emergency-department-opioid-prescriptions-adolescents
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/discrepancies-between-prescribed-and-actual-pediatric-home-parenteral-nutrition-solutions
November 11, 2009 - The authors recommend routine reconciliation of home parenteral nutrition compounds with prescriptions … October 19, 2022
Prevalence of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions among US ambulatory … 2018
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Machine learning in medication prescription … February 6, 2019
Assessment of emergency department antibiotic discharge prescription … April 25, 2018
The proportion of errors in medical prescriptions and their executions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/association-between-opioid-prescribing-patterns-and-abuse-ophthalmology
April 12, 2019 - Analyzing Medicare data, this study found that most ophthalmologists wrote fewer than 10 opioid prescriptions … per year, but a small group, concentrated in the Southern states, wrote more than 100 prescriptions … View More
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Association of household opioid availability and prescription … August 15, 2018
Outpatient opioid prescriptions for children and opioid-related adverse
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/responsible-e-prescribing-needs-e-discontinuation
July 10, 2017 - E-prescribing is a key strategy to improve medication safety by addressing illegible prescriptions, … problems associated with this unintended consequence and suggests that enabling electronic cancellation of prescriptions … Analysis of 4 million outpatient prescriptions.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/intended-and-unintended-consequences-changes-opioid-prescribing-practices-postsurgical-acute
August 10, 2022 - Further, new legislation to limit initial opioid prescriptions for acute and postsurgical pain led to … August 11, 2021
Prescription opioid use, misuse, and use disorders in U.S. adults: 2015 … October 13, 2018
Alternatives to opioid education and a prescription drug monitoring … program cumulatively decreased outpatient opioid prescriptions. … December 16, 2020
State policies for prescription drug monitoring programs and adverse
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/use-electronic-clinical-decision-support-system-primary-care-assess-inappropriate
October 21, 2020 - This cross-sectional study from Spain reviewed prescriptions for 593 older adults aged 65-75 years with … The most frequently detected inappropriate prescriptions were for prolonged use of benzodiazepines (36% … Same Author(s)
A machine learning-based clinical decision support system to identify prescriptions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/evaluation-drug-utilization-and-prescribing-errors-infants-primary-care-prescription-based
March 16, 2022 - Evaluation of drug utilization and prescribing errors in infants: a primary care prescription-based … Evaluation of drug utilization and prescribing errors in infants: a primary care prescription-based study … The authors analyzed prescriptions for children in 20 health centers in Bahrain and found that the majority … of prescriptions contained at least one error. … Evaluation of drug utilization and prescribing errors in infants: a primary care prescription-based study
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/physicians-perspectives-regarding-prescription-drug-monitoring-program-use-within-department
February 17, 2017 - Study
Physicians' perspectives regarding prescription drug monitoring program use … Physicians' Perspectives Regarding Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Use Within the Department of … February 17, 2017
Prevalence of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions among US ambulatory … March 18, 2020
Associations between stopping prescriptions for opioids, length of opioid … Related Resources
Discrepancies in written versus calculated durations in opioid prescriptions
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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
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effects-electronic-prescribing-community-based-providers-ambulatory-medication-safety
March 04, 2015 - this study examined community-based primary care providers, who actually write the bulk of ambulatory prescriptions … prescribing errors immediately following CPOE implementation were low, with approximately 6 errors per 100 prescriptions … label: prevalence and description of discrepancies from a cross-sectional evaluation of electronic prescriptions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/inappropriate-prescriptions-direct-oral-anticoagulants-doacs-hospitalized-patients-narrative
November 21, 2018 - Review
Inappropriate prescriptions of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) in hospitalized … Inappropriate prescriptions of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) in hospitalized patients: a narrative … Inappropriate prescriptions of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) in hospitalized patients: a narrative
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/38612/psn-pdf
May 06, 2009 - substance prescribing errors in a
pediatric teaching hospital: an analysis of the safety of
analgesic prescription … substance prescribing errors in a pediatric
teaching hospital: an analysis of the safety of analgesic prescription … This study
evaluated the quality of analgesic prescriptions in patients being discharged from a pediatric … Most prescriptions contained at least one error, including frequent use of error-prone
abbreviations … and failure to use weight-based dosing, and 3% of prescriptions were judged to have the
potential for
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/you-make-big-decision
March 05, 2025 - March 5, 2025
A machine learning-based clinical decision support system to identify prescriptions … September 9, 2015
POPI (Pediatrics: Omission of Prescriptions and Inappropriate prescriptions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/opioid-prescribing-patterns-among-medical-providers-united-states-2003-17-retrospective
May 11, 2016 - Using data from a large, national private insurance provider including 134 million opioid prescription … In 2017, the top 1% of opioid providers prescribed 27% of all opioid prescriptions and accounted for … A large proportion of prescriptions written by high prescribing opioid providers exceeded guidelines … In contrast, the majority of prescriptions for the bottom 99% of prescribers met prescribing guidelines … May 17, 2017
Our other prescription drug problem.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/annual-perspective-topics-medication-safety
April 27, 2022 - In all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, people can obtain naloxone without a prescription … regulations and guidelines targeting opioid prescribing behavior, other interventions , including prescription … of prescriptions exceeding 30 MME, and (4) the number of prescriptions written for opioids that were … Despite evidence indicating that state drug-control policies have resulted in both reduced misuse of prescription … opioids and reduced deaths from prescription opioid overdoses, Lee and colleagues found that some state
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/60804/psn-pdf
August 12, 2020 - pharmacist, who is
responsible for obtaining the best possible medication history and preparing discharge prescriptions … surgical team improved
the accuracy of medication histories, inpatient prescribing, and discharge prescriptions