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381. Weissman, Joel | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - , and Cost Primary medication non-adherence: analysis of 195,930 electronic prescriptions … Primary medication non-adherence: analysis of 195,930 electronic prescriptions.

382. Physician Use of Hand-held Computers for Drug Information and Prescribing (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Galt.pdf
     January 01, 2004 - electronically in the future.5 The PDA also provides a convenient means of generating a legible printed prescription … Accessing evidence-based information to improve medical decisionmaking at the point of care and improving prescription … The learning of new technology (the PDA) and its applications (prescription writing and drug information … Each subject was given a verbal order for prescriptions, and he or she had to generate a printed prescription … Physicians believed that improved accuracy and completeness of prescription information are related

383. Association between in-clinic opioid administration and discharge opioid prescription in urgent care: a retrospective cohort study. | PSNet
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     May 19, 2021 - Study Association between in-clinic opioid administration and discharge opioid prescription … Association between in-clinic opioid administration and discharge opioid prescription in urgent care: … Association between in-clinic opioid administration and discharge opioid prescription in urgent care: … program cumulatively decreased outpatient opioid prescriptions. … November 17, 2021 Adverse events and emergency department opioid prescriptions in adolescents

384. 3 Tk2 T1-Suggested Agenda For Meeting On Monitoring Final (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/3_TK2_T1-Suggested_Agenda_for_Meeting_on_Monitoring_Final.docx
     October 01, 2016 - Examples of moderately complex measures: (1) number of antibiotic prescriptions divided by the number … Examples: Percentage of antibiotic prescriptions, number of residents receiving antibiotics, number and

385. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 9. Reducing Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/reducing-adverse-drug-1.pdf
     March 01, 2020 - percent of people age 65 years and older have at least two chronic diseases and take at least five prescription … were substituted for more appropriate medications, and for 10 percent, the patient received a new prescription … When two STOPP criteria, the prescription of benzodiazepines or of neuroleptic drugs to patients who … , one being an active benzodiazepine prescription, dispensed for at least 3 consecutive months … group participants Patient Population: Older adults, 65 years and older, taking at least five prescription

386. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     February 11, 2015 - understanding-nature-medication-errors-icu-computerized-physician-order- entry-system This study reviewed prescriptions … More than half of examined prescriptions had medication errors, most often related to incorrect documentation

387. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47162/psn-pdf
     August 15, 2018 - In this academic health system, 5% of prescriptions were dispensed inadvertently—the providers had ordered … Most unintentionally dispensed prescriptions were high-risk medications, such as anticoagulants, insulin

388. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44791/psn-pdf
     January 13, 2016 - The FDA suggests that clinicians specify dosage form, strength, and frequency on prescriptions for this … evaluation-consistency-dosing-directions-and-measuring-devices-pediatric-nonprescription https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/pharmacy-clarification-prescriptions-ordered-primary-care-report-applied-strategies-improving

389. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43194/psn-pdf
     May 21, 2014 - of pediatric liquid medicines to parents/caregivers: a comparison of written dosing directions on prescriptions … of pediatric liquid medicines to parents/caregivers: a comparison of written dosing directions on prescriptions

390. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45844/psn-pdf
     February 15, 2017 - responsible-e-prescribing-needs-e-discontinuation E-prescribing is a key strategy to improve medication safety by addressing illegible prescriptions … associated with this unintended consequence and suggests that enabling electronic cancellation of prescriptions

391. Improving Antibiotic Use is a Patient Safety Issue
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/implementing-stewardship-slides.pptx
     September 01, 2022 - treatment of common infectious disease syndromes seen in outpatient settings Identify sources of antibiotic prescription … Stewardship AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use – Ambulatory Care Step 7: Monitor Antibiotic Prescription … You wrote 2 prescriptions out of 20 acute respiratory infection cases that did not warrant antibiotics … You wrote 5 prescriptions out of 20 acute respiratory infection cases that did not warrant antibiotics … Personalized prescription feedback using routinely collected data to reduce antibiotic use in primary

392. A Model-based Approach to Prioritizing Medical Safety Practices (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Marken.pdf
     January 01, 2004 - state of a prescription (S). … prescriptions) attributes the majority of the errors to incorrectly written drug doses. … Prescription fulfillment errors Other tests of the model were done using prescription-fulfillment error … Workload was measured in terms of the number of prescriptions filled per hour. … of different kinds of prescriptions that a physician might produce in a practice.

393. From Pain Relief to Risk: A Case of Suspected Opioid Overdose in a Pediatric Patient | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/pain-relief-risk-case-suspected-opioid-overdose-pediatric-patient
     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

394. Research Findings #44: Retail Drug Prices, Out-of-Pocket Costs, and Discounts and Markups Relative to List Prices: Trends and Differences by Drug Type and Insurance Status, 2011 to 2016 (pdf file)
     meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/rf44/rf44.pdf
     October 01, 2019 - It examines trends in the percentages of outpatient prescriptions filled by specialty and patent status … First, we examine trends in the percentages of outpatient prescriptions filled with four types of drugs … From 2011 to 2016, the most notable changes were that the share of outpatient prescriptions filled with … Medicare Part D enrollees filled a smaller share of prescriptions with specialty drugs (1.6 percent) … Percentage of outpatient prescriptions filled with specialty, single source, originator, and generic

395. A serious threat to patient safety: the unintended misuse of FentaNYL patches. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/serious-threat-patient-safety-unintended-misuse-fentanyl-patches
     September 24, 2010 - April 27, 2022 Alternatives to opioid education and a prescription drug monitoring program … cumulatively decreased outpatient opioid prescriptions. … January 10, 2018 The effect of opioid prescribing guidelines on prescriptions by emergency … April 22, 2015 National patterns of codeine prescriptions for children in the emergency

396. Tool 5.1 Sample Workflow Diagrams | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/implementation-toolsets-e-prescribing/toolset-e-prescribing/tool-51-sample-workflow-diagrams
     January 01, 2023 - retrieves patient chart," "Staff returns patient chart to file storage," and "Patient receives one or more prescriptions … The other is the step "Patient receives one or more prescriptions." … This latter step connects to the final step, "Patient takes prescriptions to pharmacy" (oval), outside … The fifth step is "Prescriber passes chart and prescriptions to staff." … and ending with patient picking up prescription.

397. MEPS
     meps.ahrq.gov/communication/participants/faq_pharm.shtml
     Prescription medicines are a major and increasing component of total … difficult for people to provide complete information about their prescriptions … Most do not know the NDC numbers for their prescriptions and some … The study collects information about all the prescriptions that a … For each prescription, we ask for the NDC, date filled or

398. Case Study: Developing an Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program: Lessons Learned from New York Medicaid (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/medicaid/NY_CaseStudy.pdf
     July 01, 2010 - , which includes the decrease in medication errors and costs of printing official New York paper prescriptions … The total cost savings were estimated based on the total volume of prescriptions dispensed. … Pharmacies and prescribing clinicians also receive an additional incentive for refill prescriptions. … , but faxed prescriptions do not qualify for incentive payments. … how a prescription was transmitted.2 In order to receive the incentive payment, the prescription origin

399. Case Study: Developing an Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program: Lessons Learned from New York Medicaid (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/NY_CaseStudy_0.pdf
     July 01, 2010 - , which includes the decrease in medication errors and costs of printing official New York paper prescriptions … The total cost savings were estimated based on the total volume of prescriptions dispensed. … Pharmacies and prescribing clinicians also receive an additional incentive for refill prescriptions. … , but faxed prescriptions do not qualify for incentive payments. … how a prescription was transmitted.2 In order to receive the incentive payment, the prescription origin

400. Final Report: Improving Drug Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/magid-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - In the second study, Lacroix et al examined the original prescriptions issued throughout the pregnancy … One point six percent of women in the Lacroix study received one or more prescriptions for drugs in … In the PAS projects, prescriptions are screened for potential errors using guideline-driven decision … The pharmacist cannot dispense these prescriptions without active intervention. … In the Renal Dosing project, we compared rates of dispensing prescriptions that were not adjusted for