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241. From Pain Relief to Risk: A Case of Suspected Opioid Overdose in a Pediatric Patient | PSNet
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     October 04, 2023 - At this time, the patient’s prescription for pain control was changed from hydrocodone-acetaminophen … A hospital that implemented such an alert for opioid prescriptions with oral morphine equivalent doses … (OME) ≥90 mg, concomitant benzodiazepine prescription, or history of opioid use disorder, reported a … The CDC recommends that prescribers check state prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) data when … Identifying missed clinical opportunities in delivery of overdose prevention and naloxone prescription

242. 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

243. 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

244. Prescription opioid use, misuse, and use disorders in U.S. adults: 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. | PSNet
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     October 17, 2012 - Study Classic Prescription opioid use, misuse, and use … Prescription opioid use, misuse, and use disorders in U.S. adults: 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and … Opioid safety is currently the nation's most pressing public health issue, with death rates from opioid prescriptions … cumulatively decreased outpatient opioid prescriptions. … November 13, 2019 Implementation of prescription drug monitoring programs associated

245. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     December 22, 2018 - 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

246. Reducing drug prescription errors and adverse drug events by application of a probabilistic, machine-learning based clinical decision support system in an inpatient setting. | PSNet
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     March 12, 2025 - Study Reducing drug prescription errors and adverse drug events by application of … Reducing drug prescription errors and adverse drug events by application of a probabilistic, machine-learning … Reducing drug prescription errors and adverse drug events by application of a probabilistic, machine-learning … August 26, 2015 Prevalence of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions among US ambulatory … September 1, 2016 Differences of reasons for alert overrides on contraindicated co-prescriptions

247. 2004 ASHP Leadership Conference on Pharmacy Practice Management Executive Summary: Improving patient care and medication safety. | PSNet
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     June 16, 2019 - February 21, 2018 Expanded pharmacy technician roles: accepting verbal prescriptions … and communicating prescription transfers. … May 28, 2015 Language barriers to prescriptions for patients with limited English proficiency

248. Reminder: pay attention to the appearance of your medicines. | PSNet
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     September 09, 2015 - 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

249. e-Prescribing: characterisation of patient safety hazards in community pharmacies using a sociotechnical systems approach. | PSNet
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     January 07, 2015 - Related Resources From the Same Author(s) How do community pharmacies recover from e-prescription … January 7, 2015 How do community pharmacies recover from e-prescription errors? … December 31, 2014 Transmitting and processing electronic prescriptions: experiences of … December 31, 2014 The effect of the electronic transmission of prescriptions on dispensing … errors and prescription enhancements made in English community pharmacies: a naturalistic stepped wedge

250. Potentially inappropriate opioid prescribing, overdose, and mortality in Massachusetts, 2011–2015. | PSNet
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     January 23, 2019 - October 17, 2011 Prevalence of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions among US ambulatory … Analysis of 4 million outpatient prescriptions. … May 29, 2019 Physicians' perspectives regarding prescription drug monitoring program … August 8, 2018 Quality and variability of patient directions in electronic prescriptions

251. Older adults' awareness of deprescribing: a population-based survey. | PSNet
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     June 22, 2009 - August 1, 2018 Quality and variability of patient directions in electronic prescriptions … July 27, 2016 Potential drug interactions and duplicate prescriptions among cancer patients … June 7, 2016 Prevalence of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions among US ambulatory

252. E-prescribing errors in community pharmacies: exploring consequences and contributing factors. | PSNet
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     January 07, 2015 - Related Resources From the Same Author(s) How do community pharmacies recover from e-prescription … September 1, 2021 Impact of CancelRx on discontinuation of controlled substance prescriptions … January 7, 2015 Transmitting and processing electronic prescriptions: experiences of … December 31, 2014 The effect of the electronic transmission of prescriptions on dispensing … errors and prescription enhancements made in English community pharmacies: a naturalistic stepped wedge

253. Improved medication management with introduction of a perioperative and prescribing pharmacist service. | PSNet
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     August 05, 2020 - , 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

254. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2016 - Moreover, an analysis of new prescriptions of long-acting opioids for chronic noncancer pain showed … such as less addiction potential or being tamper-resistant) may also have contributed to more liberal prescriptions … Similarly, the number of opioid prescriptions following low-risk surgical procedures increased between … The authors identified a steep decline in hydrocodone prescriptions and in overall dispensing of this … While a modest increase in other opioid medication prescriptions was seen, this effect did not approach

255. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     March 04, 2015 - 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.

256. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     May 02, 2018 - This Canadian study found that patients who received new opioid prescriptions in the emergency department … were more likely to have subsequent opioid complications compared to patients who received new opioid prescriptions … cdc-guideline-prescribing-opioids-chronic-pain-united-states-2016 https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/emergency-department-contribution-prescription-opioid-epidemic

257. Association between concurrent use of prescription opioids and benzodiazepines and overdose: retrospective analysis. | PSNet
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     November 16, 2022 - Study Association between concurrent use of prescription opioids and benzodiazepines … Association between concurrent use of prescription opioids and benzodiazepines and overdose: retrospective … June 8, 2022 Errors in electronic health record–based data query of statin prescriptions … March 6, 2019 Patient-centered prescription opioid tapering in community outpatients … Effect of a Veterans Health Administration mandate to case review patients with opioid prescriptions

258. Clinical drug interactions in outpatients of a university hospital in Thailand. | PSNet
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     September 20, 2011 - The researchers studied 260 outpatients given pairs of prescriptions with a high potential for drug-drug … August 20, 2018 Prevention of prescription opioid misuse and projected overdose deaths … March 6, 2019 Potential drug interactions and duplicate prescriptions among cancer patients

259. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     April 27, 2010 - known safety concern, both with chemotherapy orders and with potential drug interactions and duplicate prescriptions … medication-safety-ambulatory-chemotherapy-setting https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/potential-drug-interactions-and-duplicate-prescriptions-among-cancer-patients

260. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     March 13, 2018 - prescribing for opioid-naive patients in emergency departments and other settings: characteristics of prescriptions … Prescribing for Opioid-Naive Patients in Emergency Departments and Other Settings: Characteristics of Prescriptions … hospital-prescribing-opioids-medicare-beneficiaries https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/characteristics-initial-prescription-episodes-and-likelihood-long-term-opioid-use-united