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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/usp-drug-safety-review-medication-errors-involving-nmbas
July 27, 2005 - May 20, 2020
Drug-drug interactions and prescription appropriateness at hospital discharge
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/peripheral-vision-expertise-real-world-contexts
April 24, 2018 - March 30, 2022
Defining optimal length of opioid pain medication prescription after common
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/drug-package-inserts-get-mixed-reception
September 12, 2016 - This story describes the FDA's redesigned prescription drug package inserts and highlights pros and cons
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/nimodipine-capsules-marketed-nimotop
September 29, 2010 - January 25, 2017
FDA Drug Safety Communication: FDA requires labeling changes for prescription
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/review-fdas-approach-medical-product-shortages
June 22, 2011 - February 27, 2019
FDA Drug Safety Communication: FDA requires labeling changes for prescription
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/geisinger-health-systems-plan-fix-americas-health-care
October 18, 2017 - Related Resources From the Same Author(s)
CVS taps a design legend to reinvent the prescription
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/fatal-1000-fold-overdoses-can-occur-particularly-neonates-transposing-mcg-and-mg
June 10, 2018 - Copy Citation
Related Resources From the Same Author(s)
Prescription drug
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/tenfold-errors-can-lead-tragedy
February 21, 2007 - June 13, 2011
Drug-drug interactions and prescription appropriateness at hospital discharge
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/adoption-electronic-medical-record-technology-order-prevent-medical-errors-matter-american
March 07, 2018 - July 22, 2020
Prescription opioid use, misuse, and use disorders in U.S. adults: 2015
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/unreadable-barcodes-and-multiple-barcodes-packages-can-lead-errors
November 01, 2023 - Preventing medication errors in hospitals through a systems approach and technological innovation: a prescription
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/reduce-medication-errors-through-following-metrics
December 21, 2022 - April 13, 2022
Drug-drug interactions and prescription appropriateness at hospital discharge
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/themed-issue-opioid-epidemic
January 14, 2019 - Topics covered include prescription monitoring, cancer care , and medicolegal concerns of pain medication
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/cost-errors-medicares-new-policy-could-cost-average-hospital-23772-study
March 28, 2012 - October 4, 2006
Handwritten-prescription ban puts pharmacists in awkward position as
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/diagnostic-safety-issue-briefs
December 24, 2008 - January 4, 2017
Explicit and Standardized Prescription Medicine Instructions.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.107_slideshow.ppt
November 01, 2005 - than one half of medication errors occur at the interfaces of care
Up to 67% of cases had errors in prescription … medication histories
An average of 10 prescriptions needed to be changed weekly in the ICU as a result … manually complete form
At discharge, reformatting the medication profile from the pharmacy system onto a prescription … form can efficiently generate discharge prescriptions
Evaluate Reconciliation Success
Use a … local pharmacy
Complete medication reconciliation at each transition of care
At discharge, reconcile prescriptions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/40579/psn-pdf
July 06, 2011 - of patients vulnerable to adverse drug events (based on age and comorbidities)
received a high-risk prescription … While many
prescriptions were not deemed inappropriate, differences in prescribing patterns were noted
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46353/psn-pdf
August 23, 2017 - Analyzing
data from 2006–2014, the authors found that lower ranked institutions wrote more opioid prescriptions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44886/psn-pdf
September 27, 2016 - Anticoagulants are high-alert medications that require regular monitoring and adjustments to ensure
prescriptions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44397/psn-pdf
September 30, 2015 - These results suggest that
measuring new potentially inappropriate prescriptions is a feasible strategy
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46869/psn-pdf
April 11, 2018 - The sharpest rise occurred among 11–18 year olds, and nearly one-
third of opioid prescriptions were