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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/74075/psn-pdf
November 17, 2021 - cdc-guideline-opioid-prescribing-associated-reduced-dispensing-certain-
patients-chronic-pain
Misuse of prescription … percentage of
patients receiving opioids, average dose prescribed, percentage receiving high-dose prescriptions … number
of days supplied, and the percentage of patients receiving concurrent opioid/benzodiazepine prescriptions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-michael-cohen-rph-ms-scd-hon-0
October 24, 2021 - RW : In the old days, when your doctor gave you a prescription on paper or the hospital faxed a prescription … And the numbers of prescriptions have gone up dramatically. … We're now into billions of prescriptions being filled, something like 4 billion prescriptions each year … on a spindle that were kept in a file somewhere, and you matched the prescription container prescription … number with the proper prescription.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/availability-spanish-prescription-labels
December 18, 2014 - Study
Availability of Spanish prescription labels. … Availability of Spanish prescription labels. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2006;17(1):65-9. … The authors surveyed pharmacies in the Bronx, New York, and found that 69% could provide prescription … Availability of Spanish prescription labels. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2006;17(1):65-9.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/844537/psn-pdf
February 15, 2023 - retrospective longitudinal study explored changes in prescribing rates, supply
and dose of opioid prescriptions … Further, new
legislation to limit initial opioid prescriptions for acute and postsurgical pain led to
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/dispensing-error-rate-highly-automated-mail-service-pharmacy-practice
November 16, 2022 - The authors found an error rate of less than 1 error per 1,000 prescriptions dispensed though a mail-service … August 8, 2018
The effect of the electronic transmission of prescriptions on dispensing … errors and prescription enhancements made in English community pharmacies: a naturalistic stepped wedge … June 29, 2011
Using human error theory to explore the supply of non-prescription medicines
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/potential-medication-dosing-errors-outpatient-pediatrics
July 29, 2020 - The authors of this AHRQ–funded study counted overdoses and underdoses in new prescriptions and found … label: prevalence and description of discrepancies from a cross-sectional evaluation of electronic prescriptions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/appropriateness-outpatient-antibiotic-prescribing-among-privately-insured-us-patients-icd-10
January 29, 2020 - In this cross-sectional study, researchers found that 23% of the 15,455,834 outpatient antibiotic prescriptions … June 10, 2020
Prevalence of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions among US ambulatory … 2016
Evaluation of drug utilization and prescribing errors in infants: a primary care prescription-based
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/prevalence-study-errors-opioid-prescribing-large-teaching-hospital
October 19, 2022 - This cross-sectional study found that more than one quarter of opioid prescriptions at a teaching hospital … March 5, 2010
Errors and omissions in hospital prescriptions: a survey of prescription
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/evaluation-extended-releaselong-acting-opioid-prescribing-risk-evaluation-and-mitigation
March 06, 2019 - September 30, 2020
Doctors and dentists still flooding U.S. with opioid prescriptions … May 27, 2020
Associations between stopping prescriptions for opioids, length of opioid … April 1, 2020
Association of opioid prescriptions from dental clinicians for US adolescents
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impact-inpatient-electronic-prescribing-system-prescribing-error-causation-qualitative
February 16, 2022 - Analysis of 4 million outpatient prescriptions. … August 29, 2018
Quality and variability of patient directions in electronic prescriptions … incidence of medication documentation errors in a Swiss university hospital due to the handwritten prescription … label: prevalence and description of discrepancies from a cross-sectional evaluation of electronic prescriptions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45636/psn-pdf
September 26, 2018 - Pharmacist outpatient prescription review in the
emergency department: a pediatric tertiary hospital … Pharmacist Outpatient Prescription Review in the Emergency Department: A Pediatric
Tertiary Hospital … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/pharmacist-outpatient-prescription-review-emergency-department-pediatric … In this study,
pharmacists in a pediatric emergency department (ED) reviewed all discharge prescriptions … Over a 1-year period,
pharmacists intervened rarely (0.25% of prescriptions), averted 10 incidents of
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43066/psn-pdf
December 10, 2014 - This newsletter article describes an incident involving a patient who noticed that the tablets in her
prescription … patients to avoid medication errors include
being familiar with how their medicines look and checking prescriptions … Practitioners can help prevent these errors by counting and labeling prescriptions one at a time and
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/opioids-and-dentistry
November 12, 2014 - The articles explore prescribing behaviors , disparities present in opioid prescribing , prescription … October 28, 2020
A machine learning-based clinical decision support system to identify prescriptions … More
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Doctors and dentists still flooding U.S. with opioid prescriptions … April 18, 2019
Association of opioid prescriptions from dental clinicians for US adolescents
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/60202/psn-pdf
April 08, 2020 - This cross-
sectional study from Spain reviewed prescriptions for 593 older adults aged 65-75 years … The most frequently detected inappropriate prescriptions were for prolonged use of
benzodiazepines (
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/association-between-clinic-opioid-administration-and-discharge-opioid-prescription-urgent
May 19, 2021 - Study
Association between in-clinic opioid administration and discharge opioid prescription … Association between in-clinic opioid administration and discharge opioid prescription in urgent care: … Association between in-clinic opioid administration and discharge opioid prescription in urgent care: … program cumulatively decreased outpatient opioid prescriptions. … November 17, 2021
Adverse events and emergency department opioid prescriptions in adolescents
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43805/psn-pdf
February 11, 2015 - understanding-nature-medication-errors-icu-computerized-physician-order-
entry-system
This study reviewed prescriptions … More than half of examined prescriptions had medication errors, most often related to incorrect
documentation
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47162/psn-pdf
August 15, 2018 - In this
academic health system, 5% of prescriptions were dispensed inadvertently—the providers had ordered … Most unintentionally dispensed prescriptions were high-risk medications, such as
anticoagulants, insulin
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44791/psn-pdf
January 13, 2016 - The FDA suggests that clinicians specify dosage form, strength, and frequency
on prescriptions for this … evaluation-consistency-dosing-directions-and-measuring-devices-pediatric-nonprescription
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/pharmacy-clarification-prescriptions-ordered-primary-care-report-applied-strategies-improving
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43194/psn-pdf
May 21, 2014 - of pediatric liquid medicines to
parents/caregivers: a comparison of written dosing
directions on prescriptions … of pediatric liquid medicines to
parents/caregivers: a comparison of written dosing directions on prescriptions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45844/psn-pdf
February 15, 2017 - responsible-e-prescribing-needs-e-discontinuation
E-prescribing is a key strategy to improve medication safety by addressing illegible prescriptions … associated
with this unintended consequence and suggests that enabling electronic cancellation of prescriptions