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  1. In Conversation With… Michael Cohen, RPh, MS, ScD (hon) | PSNet

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    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.

  2. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    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

  3. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    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

  4. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    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

  5. Impact of an inpatient electronic prescribing system on prescribing error causation: a qualitative evaluation in an English hospital. | PSNet

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    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

  6. Dispensing error rate in a highly automated mail-service pharmacy practice. | PSNet

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    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

  7. A prevalence study of errors in opioid prescribing in a large teaching hospital. | PSNet

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    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

  8. Potential medication dosing errors in outpatient pediatrics. | PSNet

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    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

  9. Appropriateness of outpatient antibiotic prescribing among privately insured US patients: ICD-10-CM based cross sectional study. | PSNet

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    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

  10. Opioids and Dentistry. | PSNet

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    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 Related Resources Doctors and dentists still flooding U.S. with opioid prescriptions … April 18, 2019 Association of opioid prescriptions from dental clinicians for US adolescents

  11. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    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 (

  12. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    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

  13. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    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

  14. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    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

  15. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    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

  16. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    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

  17. Association between in-clinic opioid administration and discharge opioid prescription in urgent care: a retrospective cohort study. | PSNet

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    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

  18. A serious threat to patient safety: the unintended misuse of FentaNYL patches. | PSNet

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    September 24, 2010 - April 27, 2022 Alternatives to opioid education and a prescription drug monitoring program … cumulatively decreased outpatient opioid prescriptions. … January 10, 2018 The effect of opioid prescribing guidelines on prescriptions by emergency … April 22, 2015 National patterns of codeine prescriptions for children in the emergency

  19. Increase in US medication-error deaths between 1983 and 1993. | PSNet

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    March 14, 2022 - incidence of medication errors as the reported cause of death, in the face of an only 1.39-fold increase in prescriptions … 2011 Medication safety at the interface: evaluating risks associated with discharge prescriptions

  20. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    February 06, 2019 - In this cross-sectional study, researchers found that 23% of the 15,455,834 outpatient antibiotic prescriptions … appropriateness-outpatient-antibiotic-prescribing-among-privately-insured-us-patients-icd-10 https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/prevalence-inappropriate-antibiotic-prescriptions-among-us-ambulatory-care-visits
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