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  1. Use of an electronic clinical decision support system in primary care to assess inappropriate polypharmacy in young seniors with multimorbidity: observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study | PSNet

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    October 21, 2020 - This cross-sectional study from Spain reviewed prescriptions for 593 older adults aged 65-75 years with … The most frequently detected inappropriate prescriptions were for prolonged use of benzodiazepines (36% … Same Author(s) A machine learning-based clinical decision support system to identify prescriptions

  2. PSNet Curated Library (pdf file)

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    January 26, 2022 - Safe prescribing dictates that prescriptions should only be written for the patients who are intended … Using claims data, this analysis identified a high rate of opioid prescriptions written for and filled … Adverse events and emergency department opioid prescriptions in adolescents. … patient-safety-events-involving-opioid-dose-stacking https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/adverse-events-and-emergency-department-opioid-prescriptions-adolescents

  3. Discrepancies between prescribed and actual pediatric home parenteral nutrition solutions. | PSNet

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    November 11, 2009 - The authors recommend routine reconciliation of home parenteral nutrition compounds with prescriptions … October 19, 2022 Prevalence of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions among US ambulatory … 2018 View More Related Resources Machine learning in medication prescription … February 6, 2019 Assessment of emergency department antibiotic discharge prescription … April 25, 2018 The proportion of errors in medical prescriptions and their executions

  4. Responsible e-prescribing needs e-discontinuation. | PSNet

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    July 10, 2017 - E-prescribing is a key strategy to improve medication safety by addressing illegible prescriptions, … problems associated with this unintended consequence and suggests that enabling electronic cancellation of prescriptions … Analysis of 4 million outpatient prescriptions.

  5. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    December 12, 2018 - A prescription for enhancing electronic prescribing safety. … A Prescription For Enhancing Electronic Prescribing Safety. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/prescription-enhancing-electronic-prescribing-safety Although electronic … interaction alerts and inclusion of free-text notes that contain inaccurate information within electronic prescriptions … They suggest including drug indications on prescriptions, ensuring a readily available and accurate

  6. Prescribing Patterns of Cost-Effective Drugs (pdf file)

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    April 01, 2009 - Patterns of Cost-Effective Drugs Prescribing Patterns of Cost­Effective Drugs Evaluating the costs of prescription … per person in 2007 for a total of $202 billion in medication expenditures.1 As prescription drug … The average cost per new prescription was $4.16 lower (p= .02) in the intervention group, and the … average cost for new and refilled prescriptions was $4.99 lower (p=.01). … Further, the 6­month savings from new prescriptions and their refills were estimated to be $3,450 (95%

  7. Recent Data Analyses | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    November 01, 2022 - Physician Networks and Potentially Inappropriate Opioid Prescriptions . J Addict Dis . … The Impact of the Abuse-Deterrent Reformulation of Extended-Release OxyContin on Prescription Pain Reliever … December 2019. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.106268 Price elasticity of demand for buprenorphine/naloxone prescriptions

  8. Annual Perspective: Topics in Medication Safety | PSNet

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    April 27, 2022 - In all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, people can obtain naloxone without a prescription … regulations and guidelines targeting opioid prescribing behavior, other interventions , including prescription … of prescriptions exceeding 30 MME, and (4) the number of prescriptions written for opioids that were … Despite evidence indicating that state drug-control policies have resulted in both reduced misuse of prescription … opioids and reduced deaths from prescription opioid overdoses, Lee and colleagues found that some state

  9. Physicians' perspectives regarding prescription drug monitoring program use within the Department of Veterans Affairs: a multi-state qualitative study. | PSNet

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    February 17, 2017 - Study Physicians' perspectives regarding prescription drug monitoring program use … Physicians' Perspectives Regarding Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Use Within the Department of … February 17, 2017 Prevalence of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions among US ambulatory … March 18, 2020 Associations between stopping prescriptions for opioids, length of opioid … Related Resources Discrepancies in written versus calculated durations in opioid prescriptions

  10. The effects of electronic prescribing by community-based providers on ambulatory medication safety. | PSNet

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    March 04, 2015 - 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 … label: prevalence and description of discrepancies from a cross-sectional evaluation of electronic prescriptions

  11. Ambulatory prescribing errors among community-based providers in two states. | PSNet

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    July 10, 2008 - Nearly one in four prescriptions contained at least one error in dosing, frequency, or patient instructions … , and a startling proportion of prescriptions had illegibility errors as well. … label: prevalence and description of discrepancies from a cross-sectional evaluation of electronic prescriptions

  12. Emergency department contribution to the prescription opioid epidemic. | PSNet

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    June 21, 2016 - Study Classic Emergency department contribution to the prescription … Emergency Department Contribution to the Prescription Opioid Epidemic. … Emergency Department Contribution to the Prescription Opioid Epidemic. … View More Related Resources Adverse events and emergency department opioid prescriptions … April 22, 2015 National patterns of codeine prescriptions for children in the emergency

  13. Inappropriate prescriptions of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) in hospitalized patients: a narrative review. | PSNet

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    November 21, 2018 - Review Inappropriate prescriptions of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) in hospitalized … Inappropriate prescriptions of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) in hospitalized patients: a narrative … Inappropriate prescriptions of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) in hospitalized patients: a narrative

  14. Any Use and "Frequent Use" of Opioids among Non-Elderly Adults in 2018–2019, by Socioeconomic Characteristics (pdf file)

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    March 01, 2022 - This Statistical Brief presents estimates of fills of prescriptions for opioid medications that are … The estimates only include prescriptions purchased or obtained in an outpatient setting. … Average annual percentages of non-elderly adults who filled outpatient opioid1 prescriptions in 2018 … Average annual percentages of non-elderly adults who filled outpatient opioid1 prescriptions in 2018 … Average annual percentages of non-elderly adults who filled outpatient opioid1 prescriptions in 2018

  15. Opioid prescribing patterns among medical providers in the United States, 2003-17: retrospective, observational study. | PSNet

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    May 11, 2016 - Using data from a large, national private insurance provider including 134 million opioid prescription … In 2017, the top 1% of opioid providers prescribed 27% of all opioid prescriptions and accounted for … A large proportion of prescriptions written by high prescribing opioid providers exceeded guidelines … In contrast, the majority of prescriptions for the bottom 99% of prescribers met prescribing guidelines … May 17, 2017 Our other prescription drug problem.

  16. Any Use and "Frequent Use" of Opioids among Non-Elderly Adults in 2018-2019, by Socioeconomic Characteristics

    meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st542/stat542.shtml
    March 01, 2022 - This Statistical Brief presents estimates of fills of prescriptions for opioid medications … The estimates only include prescriptions purchased or obtained in an outpatient setting. … (30.3 percent) and to fill five or more opioid prescriptions (18.8 percent) compared to … Average annual percentages of non-elderly adults who filled outpatient opioid 1 prescriptions … Average annual percentages of non-elderly adults who filled outpatient opioid 1 prescriptions

  17. Before you make that big decision... | PSNet

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    March 05, 2025 - March 5, 2025 A machine learning-based clinical decision support system to identify prescriptions … September 9, 2015 POPI (Pediatrics: Omission of Prescriptions and Inappropriate prescriptions

  18. Effective Use of e-Prescribing in Physician Practices and Pharmacies - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research

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    January 01, 2011 - To gain the benefits from electronic transmission of prescriptions, both physician practices and pharmacies … team found that practices and pharmacies generally were satisfied with electronic transmission of new prescriptions … While e-prescribing reduced manual prescription entry, pharmacy staff frequently had to complete or edit … The research team concluded that electronic transmission of new prescriptions has matured but that barriers … to e-renewals, mail-order pharmacy connectivity, and pharmacy processing of e-prescriptions remain.

  19. Effective Use of e-Prescribing in Physician Practices and Pharmacies - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research

    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/effective-use-e-prescribing-physician-practices-and-pharmacies/annual-summary/2010
    January 01, 2010 - To gain the benefits from electronic transmission of prescriptions, both physician practices and pharmacies … interviews was to explore the effects of e-prescribing among users who electronically send or receive prescriptions … facilitators of and barriers to their use, and the effects of e-prescribing on pharmacies ability to process prescriptions … a second on physician practices’ and pharmacies’ experiences transmitting and processing electronic prescriptions

  20. Effect of a Veterans Health Administration mandate to case review patients with opioid prescriptions on mortality among patients with opioid use disorder: a secondary analysis of the STORM randomized control trial. | PSNet

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    May 18, 2022 - Effect of a Veterans Health Administration mandate to case review patients with opioid prescriptions … Effect of a Veterans Health Administration mandate to case review patients with opioid prescriptions … Effect of a Veterans Health Administration mandate to case review patients with opioid prescriptions … April 7, 2019 Association between concurrent use of prescription opioids and benzodiazepines
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