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381. Potential medication dosing errors in outpatient pediatrics. | PSNet
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     July 29, 2020 - The authors of this AHRQ–funded study counted overdoses and underdoses in new prescriptions and found … label: prevalence and description of discrepancies from a cross-sectional evaluation of electronic prescriptions

382. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/38323/psn-pdf
     April 27, 2010 - known safety concern, both with chemotherapy orders and with potential drug interactions and duplicate prescriptions … medication-safety-ambulatory-chemotherapy-setting https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/potential-drug-interactions-and-duplicate-prescriptions-among-cancer-patients

383. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46416/psn-pdf
     March 13, 2018 - prescribing for opioid-naive patients in emergency departments and other settings: characteristics of prescriptions … Prescribing for Opioid-Naive Patients in Emergency Departments and Other Settings: Characteristics of Prescriptions … hospital-prescribing-opioids-medicare-beneficiaries https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/characteristics-initial-prescription-episodes-and-likelihood-long-term-opioid-use-united

384. 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

385. e-Prescribing: characterisation of patient safety hazards in community pharmacies using a sociotechnical systems approach. | PSNet
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     January 07, 2015 - Related Resources From the Same Author(s) How do community pharmacies recover from e-prescription … January 7, 2015 How do community pharmacies recover from e-prescription errors? … December 31, 2014 Transmitting and processing electronic prescriptions: experiences of … December 31, 2014 The effect of the electronic transmission of prescriptions on dispensing … errors and prescription enhancements made in English community pharmacies: a naturalistic stepped wedge

386. Potentially inappropriate opioid prescribing, overdose, and mortality in Massachusetts, 2011–2015. | PSNet
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     January 23, 2019 - October 17, 2011 Prevalence of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions among US ambulatory … Analysis of 4 million outpatient prescriptions. … May 29, 2019 Physicians' perspectives regarding prescription drug monitoring program … August 8, 2018 Quality and variability of patient directions in electronic prescriptions

387. Older adults' awareness of deprescribing: a population-based survey. | PSNet
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     June 22, 2009 - August 1, 2018 Quality and variability of patient directions in electronic prescriptions … July 27, 2016 Potential drug interactions and duplicate prescriptions among cancer patients … June 7, 2016 Prevalence of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions among US ambulatory

388. E-prescribing errors in community pharmacies: exploring consequences and contributing factors. | PSNet
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     January 07, 2015 - Related Resources From the Same Author(s) How do community pharmacies recover from e-prescription … September 1, 2021 Impact of CancelRx on discontinuation of controlled substance prescriptions … January 7, 2015 Transmitting and processing electronic prescriptions: experiences of … December 31, 2014 The effect of the electronic transmission of prescriptions on dispensing … errors and prescription enhancements made in English community pharmacies: a naturalistic stepped wedge

389. In Conversation With… Michael Cohen, RPh, MS, ScD (hon) | PSNet
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     October 24, 2021 - RW : In the old days, when your doctor gave you a prescription on paper or the hospital faxed a prescription … And the numbers of prescriptions have gone up dramatically. … We're now into billions of prescriptions being filled, something like 4 billion prescriptions each year … on a spindle that were kept in a file somewhere, and you matched the prescription container prescription … number with the proper prescription.

390. MEPS
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     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

391. S77 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - Prescription activity was expressed as the number of prescriptions filled through the VA pharmacy during … During the prior year, 657 (42%) of this modeled group filled no prescriptions at the VA. … Medicare Data Update: Prescription Drug Coverage Among Beneficiaries. June 2006. … Information for Veterans About the New Medicare Prescription Drug Benefits. August 15, 2006. … The health effects of restricting prescription medication use because of cost.

392. Assessment of Pediatric Look-Alike, Sound-Alike Substitution Errors - 2012 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/assessment-pediatric-look-alike-sound-alike-substitution-errors/annual-summary/2012
     January 01, 2012 - errors have been studied in the pediatric population, the frequency of LASA-specific errors in pediatric prescriptions … the highest risk of causing harm through LASA errors and is refining a method for flagging individual prescriptions … Even if the percentage of error in these new prescriptions is 10 percent, the fact that 3 percent of

393. 3 Tk2 T1-Suggested Agenda For Meeting On Monitoring Final (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2016 - (b) 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

394. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 9. Reducing Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults (pdf file)
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     November 11, 2019 - 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

395. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/42787/psn-pdf
     January 19, 2014 - 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 … computerized-provider-order-entry https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effect-computerized-physician-order-entry-medication-prescription-errors-and-clinical-outcome

396. Reminder: pay attention to the appearance of your medicines. | PSNet
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     September 09, 2015 - This newsletter article describes an incident involving a patient who noticed that the tablets in her prescription … patients to avoid medication errors include being familiar with how their medicines look and checking prescriptions … Practitioners can help prevent these errors by counting and labeling prescriptions one at a time and

397. Measures To Assess the Safe and Judicious Use of Antipsychotics in Children and Adolescents Field Test Summary (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-148-testing-summary.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - year 1 or more psychosocial visits within 90 days prior to or 30 days after a new antipsychotic prescription … 4 months prior and 1 month following the new script 0 to 20 years with a new antipsychotic prescription … the measurement year 1 or more visits with a prescriber within 30 days after a new antipsychotic prescription … Medicare and those with inpatient behavioral health claims during the 30 days after the index prescription … 4 months prior and 1 month following the new script 0 to 20 years with a new antipsychotic prescription

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. People Purchasing Antidepressants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2021 - Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population Purchasing One or More Antidepressant or Antipsychotic Prescriptions