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421. Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2022 - Studies show that 5 to 7 percent of prescriptions result in a medication error. … Almost half the people in the United States have used at least one prescription in the last 30 days, … unintentionally overdosing by taking both the generic and name brand medicines, are taking outdated prescriptions … , or are taking supplements that negatively interact with their prescription medicines.

422. Identifying and quantifying medication errors: evaluation of rapidly discontinued medication orders submitted to a computerized physician order entry system. | PSNet
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     February 03, 2011 - Analysis of 4 million outpatient prescriptions. … July 10, 2019 Quality and variability of patient directions in electronic prescriptions … incidence of medication documentation errors in a Swiss university hospital due to the handwritten prescription … 2014 Computerized physician order entry in the cardiac intensive care unit: effects on prescription … label: prevalence and description of discrepancies from a cross-sectional evaluation of electronic prescriptions

423. Kuilboer MM et al. 2006 "Computed critiquing integrated into daily clinical practice affects physicians' behavior - a randomized clinical trial with AsthmaCritic." | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2006 - practice; and, the average number of antihistamine, cromoglycate, deptropine, and oral bronchodilator prescriptions … peak-flow measurements, and the ratio of coded measurements increased, whereas the number of cromoglycate prescriptions … There was a "larger decrease in the average number of cromoglycate prescriptions in the [intervention

424. Spotlight Case [MONTH] 2003 (ppt file)
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     April 01, 2010 - . http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7790981 * Epidemiology Estimated that 21% of handwritten prescriptions … contain at least one prescription-writing error Between 2%–24% of prescriptions are dispensed erroneously … Pharmacist Counseling States are required to establish standards governing patient counseling for prescriptions … Most states require the offer of pharmacist counseling for new prescriptions only When offered, patients … may refuse counseling on new prescriptions Interchange between pharmacist and patient can provide

425. Weingart SN et al. 2003 "Physicians' decisions to override computerized drug alerts in primary care." | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2003 - They were more likely to override alerts for renewals compared with new prescriptions (OR, 17.74; 95% … Prescriptions for amoxicillin and a combination of amoxicillin and clavulanate potassium triggered 6 … In contrast, physicians overrode all 3 erythromycin allergy alerts triggered by prescriptions for azithromycin … "New prescriptions were less often written [after overriding an alert] than renewals (50.0% vs 89.6% … than for a new prescription (OR, 17.74; 95% CI, 5.60-56.18)."

426. Electronic Prescribing and Decision Support to Improve Rural Primary Care Quality - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2010 - certification process essentially certifies that pharmacy software is capable of receiving electronic prescriptions … SureScripts certification does not address how the pharmacy software processes electronic prescriptions … efficiency gain than those required to perform more data entry when processing new electronic prescriptions … the prescription data elements as they exist in the pharmacy software. … Also, telephone calls and facsimile interruptions have decreased as more prescriptions are delivered

427. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     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

428. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     June 29, 2017 - Characteristics of initial prescription episodes and likelihood of long-term opioid use—United States … Characteristics of Initial Prescription Episodes and Likelihood of Long-Term Opioid Use - United States … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/characteristics-initial-prescription-episodes-and-likelihood-long-term-opioid … 700 mg morphine equivalent), provided prescriptions with longer duration (more than 10 days), or given … 3 or more prescriptions for opioids were most likely to continue to use opioid medications 1 year later

429. Ten ERs in Colorado tried to curtail opioids and did better than expected. | PSNet
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     December 04, 2016 - Colorado Opioid Safety Collaborative, which used alternative pain control approaches to reduce opioid prescriptions … June 26, 2019 Incidence and predictors of opioid prescription at discharge after traumatic … April 22, 2015 National patterns of codeine prescriptions for children in the emergency

430. Frequency and severity of harm of medication errors related to the parenteral nutrition process in a large university teaching hospital. | PSNet
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     January 16, 2019 - Approximately 1 in 60 prescriptions for parenteral nutrition resulted in a medication error, most of … Analysis of 4 million outpatient prescriptions.

431. Health Information Technology Community Tracking | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - Technology Community Tracking Transmitting and processing electronic prescriptions … Transmitting and processing electronic prescriptions: experiences of physician practices and pharmacies

432. Johnson K et al. 2006 "Case report: activity diagrams for integrating electronic prescribing tools into clinical workflow." | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2006 - To facilitate the future implementation of an electronic prescribing system, this case study modeled prescription … managers, physicians and nurses, and then represented the sequence of steps carried out to complete prescriptions … Objective "To facilitate the future implementation of an electronic prescribing system [by modeling] prescription … prescribing (e-Rx) Workflow-Related Findings Two distinct workflows were found, one for prescription … Workflows also varied for new prescriptions and renewals.

433. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2018 - 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.

434. The 2-Week Itch | PSNet
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     June 16, 2019 - She received a handwritten prescription for Zyrtec and Atarax. … With prescriptions for Zyprexa and Zyrtec there are many. … Therefore, including the purpose on prescriptions will reduce the likelihood of such name confusions. … Include purpose of medication on prescriptions. … Prescription errors. Legibility and drug name confusion.

435. Assessment of Pediatric Look-Alike, Sound-Alike Substitution Errors | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - errors have been studied in the pediatric population, the frequency of LASA-specific errors in pediatric prescriptions … Children Using pharmacy data to screen for look-alike, sound-alike substitution errors in pediatric prescriptions … Using pharmacy data to screen for look-alike, sound-alike substitution errors in pediatric prescriptions

436. Impact of Office-Based E-Prescribing on Prescribing Processes and Outcomes - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2010 - Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) is a technology that allows prescribers to write prescriptions … The project will link patients’ e-prescriptions with pharmacy claims and will generate a comprehensive … The key challenge in preparing the datasets has been linking events and individuals from the e-prescription … The final step will be linking e-prescriptions to filled claims. … In regard to e-prescription adoption, the focus groups found that the attitude of the doctors played

437. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45425/psn-pdf
     December 22, 2018 - In this study, investigators used a trigger tool approach and reviewed all antibiotic prescriptions … They found that antibiotic prescriptions with overridden alerts were associated with dosing errors.

438. Characterization of prescribing errors in an internal medicine clinic. | PSNet
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     March 04, 2011 - Prior to implementation of an electronic prescription system, the investigators retrospectively analyzed … handwritten prescriptions to identify prescribing errors and their characteristics. … Analysis of 4 million outpatient prescriptions. … May 27, 2011 Effect of computerisation on the quality and safety of chemotherapy prescription

439. Risk factors in preventable adverse drug events in pediatric outpatients.  | PSNet
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     December 15, 2011 - This study discovered that children with multiple prescriptions were at increased risk for suffering … doses of pediatric liquid medicines to parents/caregivers: a comparison of written dosing directions on prescriptions

440. Opioid prescribing and potential overdose errors among children 0 to 36 months old. | PSNet
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     March 23, 2016 - These results suggest that opioid prescriptions for pediatric patients often contain potential overdose … January 23, 2019 Outpatient opioid prescriptions for children and opioid-related adverse