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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/incidence-and-predictors-opioid-prescription-discharge-after-traumatic-injury
July 02, 2019 - Study
Classic
Incidence and predictors of opioid prescription … Incidence and Predictors of Opioid Prescription at Discharge After Traumatic Injury. … Incidence and Predictors of Opioid Prescription at Discharge After Traumatic Injury. … prescribing for opioid-naive patients in emergency departments and other settings: characteristics of prescriptions … April 22, 2015
National patterns of codeine prescriptions for children in the emergency
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/identifying-and-quantifying-medication-errors-evaluation-rapidly-discontinued-medication
February 03, 2011 - Analysis of 4 million outpatient prescriptions. … July 10, 2019
Quality and variability of patient directions in electronic prescriptions … incidence of medication documentation errors in a Swiss university hospital due to the handwritten prescription … 2014
Computerized physician order entry in the cardiac intensive care unit: effects on prescription … label: prevalence and description of discrepancies from a cross-sectional evaluation of electronic prescriptions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.215_slideshow.ppt
April 01, 2010 - . http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7790981
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Epidemiology
Estimated that 21% of handwritten prescriptions … contain at least one prescription-writing error
Between 2%–24% of prescriptions are dispensed erroneously … Pharmacist Counseling
States are required to establish standards governing patient counseling for prescriptions … Most states require the offer of pharmacist counseling for new prescriptions only
When offered, patients … may refuse counseling on new prescriptions
Interchange between pharmacist and
patient can provide
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/opioid-prescribing-decreases-after-learning-patients-fatal-overdose
January 18, 2023 - Prior studies have shown that patients frequently receive opioid prescriptions even if they have a history … Topics in Medication Safety
March 31, 2022
Physicians' perspectives regarding prescription … April 7, 2019
California doctors alarmed as state links their opioid prescriptions to
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/42787/psn-pdf
January 19, 2014 - 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 … computerized-provider-order-entry
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effect-computerized-physician-order-entry-medication-prescription-errors-and-clinical-outcome
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45796/psn-pdf
June 29, 2017 - Characteristics of initial prescription episodes and
likelihood of long-term opioid use—United States … Characteristics of Initial Prescription Episodes and Likelihood of Long-Term
Opioid Use - United States … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/characteristics-initial-prescription-episodes-and-likelihood-long-term-opioid … 700 mg morphine
equivalent), provided prescriptions with longer duration (more than 10 days), or given … 3 or more
prescriptions for opioids were most likely to continue to use opioid medications 1 year later
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ten-ers-colorado-tried-curtail-opioids-and-did-better-expected
December 04, 2016 - Colorado Opioid Safety Collaborative, which used alternative pain control approaches to reduce opioid prescriptions … June 26, 2019
Incidence and predictors of opioid prescription at discharge after traumatic … April 22, 2015
National patterns of codeine prescriptions for children in the emergency
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/frequency-and-severity-harm-medication-errors-related-parenteral-nutrition-process-large
January 16, 2019 - Approximately 1 in 60 prescriptions for parenteral nutrition resulted in a medication error, most of … Analysis of 4 million outpatient prescriptions.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/increasing-naloxone-prescribing-emergency-department-through-education-and-electronic-medical
October 14, 2020 - One strategy to reduce overdose is concurrent prescription of naloxone . … EMR work-aids and staff education strategies could be implemented in other EDs to increase naloxone prescriptions … September 8, 2021
Alternatives to opioid education and a prescription drug monitoring … program cumulatively decreased outpatient opioid prescriptions.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medicines-reconciliation-emergency-department-important-prescribing-discrepancies-between
April 21, 2021 - 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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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medication-reconciliation-during-hospitalization-and-hospital-home-interface-observational
June 16, 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 with … 1,310) were classified as unintentional and the majority (62.1%) of those were found when comparing the prescriptions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/performance-3-sets-criteria-potentially-inappropriate-prescribing-older-people-identify
December 21, 2022 - Criteria, such as the Screening Tool of Older Persons' Prescriptions (STOPP)/Screening Tool to Alert … December 21, 2022
Association of inappropriate outpatient pediatric antibiotic prescriptions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/using-automated-methods-detect-safety-problems-health-information-technology-scoping-review
April 07, 2019 - Machine learning was often used to detect errors occurring in laboratory test results, prescriptions, … April 29, 2018
A machine learning-based clinical decision support system to identify prescriptions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33867/psn-pdf
October 01, 2018 - 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/associations-physicians-prescribing-experience-work-hours-and-workload-prescription-errors
July 21, 2021 - Associations of physicians’ prescribing experience, work hours, and workload with prescription … Associations of physicians’ prescribing experience, work hours, and workload with prescription errors … Associations of physicians’ prescribing experience, work hours, and workload with prescription errors … cumulatively decreased outpatient opioid prescriptions. … April 26, 2017
Differences of reasons for alert overrides on contraindicated co-prescriptions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/special-issue-prescription-drug-misuse
November 25, 2020 - Special or Theme Issue
Special Issue on Prescription Drug Misuse. … Citation Text:
Special Issue on Prescription Drug Misuse. … This special issue reviews research initiatives exploring persistent challenges associated with the prescription … Copy URL
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Special Issue on Prescription
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/our-other-prescription-drug-problem
May 17, 2017 - Commentary
Our other prescription drug problem. … Our Other Prescription Drug Problem. N Engl J Med. 2018;378(8):693-695. doi:10.1056/NEJMp1715050. … Our Other Prescription Drug Problem. … February 13, 2019
Prevalence of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions among US ambulatory … July 20, 2011
Adherence to black box warnings for prescription medications in outpatients
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/2-week-itch
June 16, 2019 - She received a handwritten prescription for Zyrtec and Atarax. … With prescriptions for Zyprexa and Zyrtec there are many. … Therefore, including the purpose on prescriptions will reduce the likelihood of such name confusions. … Include purpose of medication on prescriptions. … Prescription errors. Legibility and drug name confusion.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45425/psn-pdf
December 22, 2018 - In this study, investigators used a trigger tool approach and reviewed all antibiotic prescriptions … They found that antibiotic prescriptions with overridden alerts were associated with
dosing errors.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/characterization-prescribing-errors-internal-medicine-clinic
March 04, 2011 - Prior to implementation of an electronic prescription system, the investigators retrospectively analyzed … handwritten prescriptions to identify prescribing errors and their characteristics. … Analysis of 4 million outpatient prescriptions. … May 27, 2011
Effect of computerisation on the quality and safety of chemotherapy prescription