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341. Upstate New York VA Hospitals Use AHRQ Report to Implement Safety Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - The use of the forcing function has made a dramatic difference in the accuracy of written prescriptions

342. Memorial Hospital Uses AHRQ Resources to Cut Readmissions, Promote Patient Self-Management | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2015 - Staff nurses call patients asking if they have pain, have filled their prescriptions, scheduled follow-up

343. Final Progress Report: Toward safer opioid prescribing for chronic pain in high risk populations (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/robinson-papp-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Although opioid prescription rates have been declining since 2010, they are still quite high with ~17% … of Americans receiving one or more opioid prescriptions annually. … Check Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP). 10. … Incidence The incidence of CP in PWH, and more specifically the incidence of new opioid prescriptions … A more realistic goal may be to reduce risk of community exposure to prescription opioids without worsening

344. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/studies/index.html?page=192
     January 01, 2024 - This study investigated whether Medicare prescription drug plan formulary restrictions were enacted after … from 2008 to 2015 and found there was only a 3% decrease in drug formularies providing unrestricted prescriptions … Medicare prescription drug plan formulary restrictions after postmarket FDA black box warnings. … Fingar KR , Ali MM AHRQ Author: McClellan C Price elasticity of demand for buprenorphine/naloxone prescriptions … Price elasticity of demand for buprenorphine/naloxone prescriptions.

345. SOPS® Database De-Identified Research Dataset Contents (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/SOPS-De-IdentifiedResearchDatasets.pdf
     January 01, 2023 - • Survey administration mode • End dates of data collection • Pharmacy type • Average number of prescriptions

346. Patient Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - The guidelines include how to prepare for a medical appointment, what to ask when you receive a prescription … , and how to get your prescription filled.

347. Final Progress Report: Improving quality of postoperative pain care through innovative use of electronic health records (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/hernandez-boussard-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Inappropriate postoperative pain management can result in prescription opioid dependence an epidemic … One postulated cause of this crisis is the easing of availability of prescription opioids in the mid … These data support national initiatives targeting opioid prescriptions and could guide future policies … knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a common and painful procedure accounting for a large number of opioid prescriptions … results underscore the need to create valid quality measures to guide safe and effective opioid prescriptions

348. Opioids and Substance Use Disorders: What's New | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2024 - Providers  A stepped wedge trial of 12 primary care clinics demonstrated that implementation of one-click Prescription … The full article is available at Effect of integration of prescription drug monitoring program data

349. Medication Management: Procedure: Engaging Your Patient To Create a Medication List (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/medication-mgmt-staff-procedure.pdf
     January 17, 2017 - Using the Medication List form, go through the prescription medications one by one. a. … Check whether the prescription indicates that no refills remain, and note on the Medication List form … Repeat this process until you have a complete list of all prescription medications, including non-oral … Make the clinician aware of any prescription that is not being taken as prescribed and the reason, if

350. Sustaining Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts – Slides
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/sustaining-antibiotic-slides.pptx
     September 01, 2022 - Step four: Determine how to access antibiotic prescription data. … Step seven: Monitor and report back antibiotic prescription data to practice. … to focus on Approximate amount of time that will be spent on each condition Frequency of antibiotic prescription … Antibiotic Use – Ambulatory Care Sustaining 7 Hypothetical Proportion of Visits With an Antibiotic Prescription

351. CAHPS Supplemental Items | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     Health Plan Coordination of care C-HL14 Patient started a prescription … Clinician & Group Health literacy P-HL13 Patient started a prescription … Health Plan Mental health care P-CR7 Patient took prescription

352. CAHPS Supplemental Items | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     Health Plan Access CC25 Child needs or uses prescription … Plan Children with chronic conditions CC26 Child needs prescription … Plan Children with chronic conditions CC27 Child needs prescription

353. Final Progress Report: Improving Safe Use of Direct Oral Anticoagulants: A Population Health Approach (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/barnes-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - In fact, multiple studies have identified that as many as 1 in 7 patients have inappropriate DOAC prescriptions … record (EHR) to identify patients from across their health system with potentially inappropriate DOAC prescriptions … who had a change in their prescription within 7 days. … that had a change to their prescription within 7 days. … Specifically, the percentage of patients with off-label DOAC prescriptions declined quarter-by-quarter

354. Primary Care Connection Prior to Emergency Department Visits for Children With Identifiable Asthma (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-136-fullreport.pdf
     July 01, 2018 - Have no prescriptions filled for rescue medications or controller medications within the specified time … Have both a qualifying visit with primary care provider and prescriptions filled for both a rescue medication … When prescriptions for both controller and rescue medications are not filled, it can be interpreted … By combining the two medication measures, we can identify those children with filled prescriptions for … Have no prescriptions filled for rescue medications or controller medications within the specified time

355. Medication Management (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/medmanagement_webinar_slides.pdf
     January 01, 2015 - accurate medication list – Patients and family members bring all their medications – OTC and prescriptions … • 2.3 billion prescriptions are prescribed by primary care clinicians each year (CDC) • Adverse drug

356. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/studies/index.html?page=176
     January 01, 2024 - They measured the frequency for all filled antibiotic prescriptions in Medicaid patients in the period … Their prescription records were linked in from existing Prescription Monitoring Program records. … The majority (1,461) died from illicit opioids and only 309 deaths involved prescription opioids. … For the residents who used prescription opioids, 76% filled 10.7 prescriptions per decedent compared … with 36% of illicit opioid users totaling 2.6 prescriptions per decedent.

357. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/studies/index.html?page=89
     January 01, 2024 - Disparities Goyal MK , Drendel AL , Chamberlain JM Racial/ethnic differences in ED opioid prescriptions … study was to investigate whether racial and/or ethnic differences in provision of outpatient opioid prescriptions … Findings showed that, as provision of opioid prescriptions declined over time, previously marked racial … and/or ethnic disparities in opioid prescription rates at ED discharge decreased. … Racial/ethnic differences in ED opioid prescriptions for long bone fractures: trends over time.

358. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/studies/index.html?page=148
     January 01, 2024 - concluded that the strength of the evidence was low to moderate that OS efforts decreased numbers of opioid prescriptions … Using deprescribing practices and the screening tool of older persons' potentially inappropriate prescriptions … to reduce polypharmacy; and 2) use of the Screening Tool of Older Persons’ Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions … Using deprescribing practices and the screening tool of older persons' potentially inappropriate prescriptions

359. Final Progress Report: TOP-MEDS CERT: Tools for Optimizing Medication Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/lambert-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - In the United States, roughly one per thousand prescriptions results in the wrong drug being filled … To further investigate this type of error, we searched for all prescriptions for cycloserine at UI-Health … errors—the type most likely to be the result of name confusion—is roughly 0.13%.5 With 3.9 billion prescriptions … validity of direct observation but are less resource intensive and hence can scale to millions of prescriptions … Using pharmacy data to screen for look-alike, sound-alike substitution errors in pediatric prescriptions

360. Case 4. Suntown Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/systemdesign/leancasestudies/lean-case4.html
     November 01, 2014 - A definitive prescription is one that is legible, timely, accurate, and covered by insurance. … The team walked the current process for writing and submitting both a new prescription and a refill prescription … process (i.e., researching the refill request and writing the refill prescription). … ; this speaks to the accuracy of the prescription. … who are actually writing the prescriptions.