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241. Incidence and variables associated with inconsistencies in opioid prescribing at hospital discharge and its associated adverse drug outcomes. | PSNet
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     April 29, 2018 - Harms related to prescription opioid use are an ongoing patient safety challenge. … , and 80% of those prescriptions were among patients discharged from a surgical unit . … Opioid-related medication errors were more common in handwritten discharge prescriptions compared to … electronic prescriptions; electronic prescriptions were associated with a 69% lower risk of opioid-related … cumulatively decreased outpatient opioid prescriptions.

242. STATISTICAL BRIEF #535: Comparison of the Total Number of People in the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population Purchasing One or More Antidepressant or Antipsychotic Prescriptions by Select Sociodemographic Characteristics, 2013 and 2018
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     June 01, 2021 - Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population Purchasing One or More Antidepressant or Antipsychotic Prescriptions … Refills as well as original prescriptions are included in utilization estimates. … Figure 2: Number of people obtaining one or more prescriptions for antipsychotics, by … Figure 4: Number of people obtaining one or more prescriptions for antipsychotics, by … Figure 6: Number of people obtaining one or more prescriptions for antipsychotics, by

243. Schectman JM et al. 2005 "Determinants of physician use of an ambulatory prescription expert system." | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2005 - Determinants of physician use of an ambulatory prescription expert system. … in system adoption and degree of usage, though 72% of physicians reported predominant usage (>50% of prescriptions … was more time consuming and also more likely to believe that their patients preferred hand-written prescriptions … Forty-three percent of physicians felt using the e-Rx was faster than handwriting prescriptions. … Twenty-four percent of physicians would prefer to continue with handwritten prescriptions.

244. The Lost Start Date: an Unknown Risk of E-prescribing | PSNet
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     December 02, 2020 - Discuss standards for the transmission of electronic prescriptions to pharmacies. … The prescriptions were filled by the pharmacy. … Analysis of prescribers' notes in electronic prescriptions in ambulatory practice. … Scottsdale, AZ: National Council for Prescription Drug Programs; June 2015. … Analysis of 4 million outpatient prescriptions.

245. Decreasing Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing to Improve Patient Safety and Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2018 - Linder presented at Infectious Disease Week 2018, he analyzed more than 500,000 prescriptions from 514 … Smart Forms also showed promise for increasing diagnostic accuracy and reducing unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions … Linder’s more recent research has focused on the breadth and depth of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions … More recently, together with collaborators, he found that inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions given … The group found that certain interventions reduced the rate of inappropriate prescriptions from 20 percent

246. Data Infographics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - sources in-depth. 2024 Electronic Nicotine Product Use by Race/Ethnicity, 2021 Opioid Prescription … Health Apps State Variations in Inpatient Stays for Substance Use Disorders Opioid Prescriptions … Dispensed to Adults, 2017 Opioid Outpatient Prescriptions Expenses Among Adults, 2017 Outpatient … Expenses for Adults with Opioid Prescriptions, 2017 Total Outpatient Prescriptions Expenses for … Adults with Opioid Prescriptions Emergency Department Visits, 2017 Receiving Courtesy and

247. Data Infographics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - sources in-depth. 2024 Electronic Nicotine Product Use by Race/Ethnicity, 2021 Opioid Prescription … Health Apps State Variations in Inpatient Stays for Substance Use Disorders Opioid Prescriptions … Dispensed to Adults, 2017 Opioid Outpatient Prescriptions Expenses Among Adults, 2017 Outpatient … Expenses for Adults with Opioid Prescriptions, 2017 Total Outpatient Prescriptions Expenses for … Adults with Opioid Prescriptions Emergency Department Visits, 2017 Receiving Courtesy and

248. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     August 20, 2018 - Postsurgical prescriptions for opioid naive patients and association with overdose and misuse: retrospective … Postsurgical prescriptions for opioid naive patients and association with overdose and misuse: retrospective … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/postsurgical-prescriptions-opioid-naive-patients-and-association-overdose … Longer duration of postoperative opioid prescription was also associated with higher odds of future … This study adds to evidence demonstrating the potential harms associated with even short-term opioid prescription

249. Rivkin S 1997 "Opportunities and challenges of electronic physician prescribing technology." | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 1997 - transfers, and problematic prescriptions requiring review." … "Some offices were able to enter prescriptions through this system only when fully staffed. … [One] office said this tool was used only when patients had multiple prescriptions." … "However, many physician offices continued to phone in prescriptions or write them out by hand since … In fact, prescriptions would often sit on the fax machine until the patient arrived ...

250. AHRQ's Guide to Evaluating Health Information Exchange Projects - Appendix D (pdf file)
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     November 14, 2014 - e-prescribing system in an outpatient practice, the office manager believed they were making a large number of prescription … errors, maybe as high as one in every four prescriptions, or 25 percent. … , you might observe the following: Before After Number of Errors in 100 Sampled Prescriptions 27 3 … Since the number of observed events (prescription errors) is so small both before and after implementing … the e-prescribing system, the errors may have shown up in the sampled prescriptions by chance.

251. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     June 03, 2015 - The fate of pediatric prescriptions in community pharmacies. … The fate of pediatric prescriptions in community pharmacies. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/fate-pediatric-prescriptions-community-pharmacies The need for weight-based … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/fate-pediatric-prescriptions-community-pharmacies https://psnet.ahrq.gov

252. Impact of Office-Based E-Prescribing on Prescribing Processes and Outcomes - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2011 - Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing), which allows prescribers to write prescriptions electronically … Ninety-seven percent of respondents reported that they were able to send prescriptions electronically … least half of physicians said that their use of e-prescribing made it easier for them to take care of prescription … refills themselves, have staff take care of refills, batch process refills, write an initial prescription … those using e-prescribing for more than three years averaged 33 e-prescriptions per week.

253. The impact of electronic communication of medication discontinuation (CancelRx) on medication safety: a pilot study. | PSNet
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     December 07, 2022 - Researchers found that CancelRx did result in the unintentional cancellation of some prescriptions and … December 7, 2022 Impact of CancelRx on discontinuation of controlled substance prescriptions … November 2, 2022 View More Related Resources Pharmacy e-prescription … November 14, 2018 The effect of the electronic transmission of prescriptions on dispensing … errors and prescription enhancements made in English community pharmacies: a naturalistic stepped wedge

254. CDC guideline for opioid prescribing associated with reduced dispensing to certain patients with chronic pain. | PSNet
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     October 13, 2018 - Misuse of prescription opioids represents a serious patient safety issue. … number of days supplied, and the percentage of patients receiving concurrent opioid/benzodiazepine prescriptions … April 27, 2022 Adverse events and emergency department opioid prescriptions in adolescents … September 30, 2020 Alternatives to opioid education and a prescription drug monitoring … program cumulatively decreased outpatient opioid prescriptions.

255. Sb60
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     December 01, 2004 - STATISTICAL BRIEF #60 December 2004 Top 10 Outpatient Prescription Medicines Ranked by Utilization … Introduction
     This Statistical Brief provides a summary of the top 10 outpatient prescription … Zocor ranked seventh in terms of total number of prescriptions purchased with 37.09 million prescriptions … , respectively, for a combined total of 206.37 million prescriptions. … Top 10 Outpatient Prescription Medicines Ranked by Utilization and Expenditures for the U.S.

256. The Impact of Personal Digital Assistant Devices on Medication Safety in Primary Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2005 - Each control group physician was provided prescription pads with carbon copy prescription backs. … for each physician against the date the prescriptions were written. … prescriptions over time. … 0 0.3 Wrong route of drug administration on prescription * 43% of prescriptions were generated … • Prescription generation – the time need to write and print the prescription using the PDA.

257. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     July 10, 2019 - Analysis of 4 million outpatient prescriptions. … Analysis of 4 million outpatient prescriptions. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2019;76(13):970-979. … Medication safety experts have advocated that prescribers include indications on prescription labels … that only 7.4% of prescriptions included an indication. … what-do-medical-records-tell-us-about-potentially-harmful-co-prescribing https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/prescription-enhancing-electronic-prescribing-safety

258. STATISTICAL BRIEF #505: Total Expenses, Total Utilization, and Sources of Payment for Outpatient Prescription Opioids in the U.S. Adult Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2015
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     November 01, 2017 - Total outpatient prescription opioid purchases for adults totaled 152.8 million prescriptions with Hydrocodone … (61.7, 33.0, and 26.5 million prescriptions, respectively) in 2015. … ), Oxycodone (33.0 million prescriptions), Tramadol (26.5 million prescriptions) and Codeine (13.1 million … prescriptions). … Refills as well as original prescriptions are included in expense and utilization estimates.

259. The Importance of Investing in Care for People with Multiple Chronic Conditions (pdf file)
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     August 26, 2013 - treatment is high and ongoing for patients with MCC and their families. 0 chronic conditions = 3.5 prescriptions … RX RX RX 3 chronic conditions = 23 prescriptions 5 chronic conditions = 50 prescriptions AVERAGE … NUMBER OF PRESCRIPTIONS PER YEAR (new + refilled) To address the growing problem of MCC, the US healthcare

260. The Importance of Investing in Care for People with Multiple Chronic Conditions (pdf file)
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     August 26, 2013 - MCC = $1,620 AVERAGE ANNUAL OUT OF POCKET EXPENDITURES RX 5 chronic conditions = 50 prescriptions … 3 chronic conditions = 23 prescriptions 0 chronic conditions = 3.5 prescriptions AVERAGE NUMBER … OF PRESCRIPTIONS PER YEAR (new + refilled) INVESTING IN CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH Multiple Chronic Conditions