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January 10, 2011 - However, because the patient's family had a copy of the original prescription from the oncologist, the … In one analysis of prescriptions requiring clarification, while faxed and written prescriptions required … Take-Home Points Prescription writing is an intricate professional task and it is essential to be … Pharmacists should not dispense any drug based on a prescription without data that support its use in … of the first five million prescriptions in 1999.
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February 22, 2023 - How would final-year medical students perform if their
skill-based prescription assessment was real … based
prescription assessment was real life? Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2022;88(12):5202-5217. … cohort study
conducted at one medical center in the Netherlands identified a high rate of errors in prescriptions … written
by medical students (40% of all prescriptions). … The most common type of error was inadequate information
in the prescription – such as not indicating
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November 25, 2020 - This article discusses how an endometriosis patient was unable to get prescriptions to manage her … November 11, 2020
Doctors and dentists still flooding U.S. with opioid prescriptions.
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August 04, 2021 - June 9, 2021
Prevalence of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions among US ambulatory … May 25, 2016
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October 06, 2022 - Researchers found that CancelRx did result in the unintentional cancellation of
some prescriptions and … electronic-health-record-interoperability-why-electronically-discontinued-medications-are
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January 29, 2020 - Dosing duration limits resulted in decreases
in postoperative prescription size and days supplied in … cdc-guideline-prescribing-opioids-chronic-pain-united-states-2016
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December 15, 2024 - 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 … by the spouses of patients undergoing outpatient surgery (who may be unable to fill prescriptions themselves … Study
Adverse events and emergency department opioid prescriptions in adolescents
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October 03, 2018 - The editorial also notes the alarming number of patients who received prescriptions for short-acting … March 24, 2019
Prevention of prescription opioid misuse and projected overdose deaths … June 16, 2019
Outpatient opioid prescriptions for children and opioid-related adverse … January 11, 2017
National patterns of codeine prescriptions for children in the emergency
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Inappropriateness of medication prescriptions to elderly patients in the … January 7, 2015
Transmitting and processing electronic prescriptions: experiences of … label: prevalence and description of discrepancies from a cross-sectional evaluation of electronic prescriptions … December 5, 2012
The (slowly) vanishing prescription pad.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/842419/psn-pdf
January 11, 2023 - Balancing safety, comfort, and fall risk: an intervention to
limit opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions … Balancing safety, comfort, and fall risk: an intervention to limit opioid
and benzodiazepine prescriptions … of older adults presenting to the emergency room or urgent care due to a fall who
receive an opioid prescription … Nearly one third of
patients received a prescription for an opioid and/or benzodiazepine, and 11% had
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/836746/psn-pdf
March 16, 2022 - In these instances, clinicians must rely solely on
electronic records of medication prescriptions, which … This analysis of prescriptions entered into the Danish Shared Medication Record (SMR) and patient reports
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February 26, 2025 - At this
time, the patient’s prescription for pain control was changed from hydrocodone-acetaminophen … oxycodone is the most frequently prescribed oral opioid.2
Current guidelines recommend that opioid prescriptions … A hospital that implemented such an alert for opioid prescriptions with oral morphine
equivalent doses … 90 mg, concomitant benzodiazepine prescription, or history of opioid use
disorder, reported a 28-fold … The CDC recommends that prescribers check state prescription drug monitoring
program (PDMP) data when
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September 09, 2011 - 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 … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/evaluation-drug-utilization-and-prescribing-errors-infants-primary-care-
prescription-based … The authors analyzed prescriptions for children in 20 health centers in Bahrain and found that the … majority
of prescriptions contained at least one error.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/73120/psn-pdf
April 07, 2021 - This retrospective study examined
regional prescription registry (RPR) data at a single Italian hospital … Researchers identified 4,363 discrepancies among 14,573
prescriptions originating from 298 patients … ) were classified as unintentional and the majority (62.1%) of those were found when
comparing the prescriptions
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February 02, 2022 - Review
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Inappropriate opioid prescription after … Inappropriate opioid prescription after surgery. … Inappropriate opioid prescription after surgery. … January 27, 2019
Alternatives to opioid education and a prescription drug monitoring … program cumulatively decreased outpatient opioid prescriptions.
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April 22, 2020 - 2021
Medication safety at the interface: evaluating risks associated with discharge prescriptions … January 12, 2022
Adverse events and emergency department opioid prescriptions in adolescents … April 22, 2020
National patterns of codeine prescriptions for children in the emergency
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August 31, 2022 - Comparing the variability of ingredient, strength, and dose form information from electronic prescriptions … Work effort, readability and quality of pharmacy transcription of patient directions from electronic prescriptions … 2018
Evaluation of drug utilization and prescribing errors in infants: a primary care prescription-based … November 16, 2022
Including the reason for use on prescriptions sent to pharmacists
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March 03, 2019 - In this academic health system, 5% of prescriptions were dispensed inadvertently—the providers had … Most unintentionally dispensed prescriptions were high-risk medications, such as anticoagulants, insulin … June 29, 2011
Using human error theory to explore the supply of non-prescription medicines
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July 02, 2019 - Communication failure: analysis of prescribers' use of an
internal free-text field on electronic prescriptions … Communication failure: analysis of prescribers’ use of an internal free-text
field on electronic prescriptions