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261. 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

262. 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

263. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     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

264. 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

265. 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

266. 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

267. 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

268. Identifying and quantifying medication errors: evaluation of rapidly discontinued medication orders submitted to a computerized physician order entry system. | PSNet
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     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

269. 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

270. 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

271. 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

272. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     January 07, 2015 - To improve safety, the authors recommend developing systems to track abandoned prescriptions, offering … electronic health record and pharmacy computer systems to decrease manual entry, limit duplicated prescriptions … A past AHRQ WebM&M commentary describes how a nurse entered an outpatient prescription for the wrong

273. Special Issue on Prescription Drug Misuse. | PSNet
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     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 Cite Citation Citation Text: Special Issue on Prescription

274. Spotlight Case [MONTH] 2003 (ppt file)
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     April 01, 2010 - . http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7790981 * 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

275. Characterization of prescribing errors in an internal medicine clinic. | PSNet
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     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

276. Ten ERs in Colorado tried to curtail opioids and did better than expected. | PSNet
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     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

277. Incidence and predictors of opioid prescription at discharge after traumatic injury. | PSNet
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     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

278. Our other prescription drug problem. | PSNet
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     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

279. Opioid prescribing decreases after learning of a patient's fatal overdose. | PSNet
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     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

280. Classification of medication incidents associated with information technology. | PSNet
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     November 23, 2012 - 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 … label: prevalence and description of discrepancies from a cross-sectional evaluation of electronic prescriptions