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  1. Final Progress Report: Leveraging a Social Network of Elders and Families To Improve Medication Safety at Transitions of Care (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/quintana-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Participants were asked to enter prescription medications into the medication manager without aid. … The variety of potential drugs, from over-the-counter to prescription medications to herbal remedies … Interventions to enhance patient adherence to medication prescriptions: scientific review. … Measuring patients' self-efficacy in understanding and using prescription medication. … Technology induced error and usability: the relationship between usability problems and prescription

  2. Transforming Healthcare Quality through Information Technology (THQIT) (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/uc1hs016151-mathews-final-report-2008.pdf
    January 01, 2008 - The purpose of the proposed project is to expand ByNet’s existing efforts to increase access to prescription … gain patient access to such services by providing enhanced patient access to a broader variety of prescription

  3. Lessons from the Field: Identifying Measurement Challenges and Successes (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/lessons/lessons-challenges-successes.pdf
    January 01, 2019 - system level, the team found that data were available from medical records to indicate whether a prescription … was written, but not whether the prescription was filled (only available in claims)

  4. Discussion of Findings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/engage/findings.html
    March 01, 2017 - prescribing medications with drug-drug interactions, and making errors related to transcription of written prescription … Filling and administration errors include patients not filling their prescription, patients not understanding

  5. Meeting Minutes, March 27, 2015 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2015-03-nac/nacmtg0315-minutes.html
    July 01, 2015 - National Strategy for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, and $5 million to support the prevention of prescription … The focus was on prescription-based drugs and not illicit drug use.

  6. Patient-Centered Informatics System to Enhance Health Care in Rural Communities - Final Report (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017308-samore-final-report-2011.pdf
    January 01, 2011 - For example, a new prescription or alteration in dosage for coumadin triggered an email reminder to … used the core features of the clinic electronic medical record part of the UHR, including electronic prescriptions … participants were asked to complete the health history section, to look for medical information, to refill a prescription

  7. In Conversation With… Urmimala Sarkar, MD, MPH | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-urmimala-sarkar-md-mph
    August 22, 2014 - in 4829 serious permanent injuries and 2587 deaths.( 6 ) Physicians write approximately 3.6 billion prescriptions … prescribing errors that have potential for patient injury is 3%, that's about 108,000 potentially harmful prescription … Trends in outpatient prescription drug use and related costs in the US: 1998–2003.

  8. Beyond the Hospital: the New Frontier of Patient Safety | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/beyond-hospital-new-frontier-patient-safety
    August 01, 2014 - in 4829 serious permanent injuries and 2587 deaths.( 6 ) Physicians write approximately 3.6 billion prescriptions … prescribing errors that have potential for patient injury is 3%, that's about 108,000 potentially harmful prescription … Trends in outpatient prescription drug use and related costs in the US: 1998–2003.

  9. Patient Residence Characteristics of Opioid-Related Inpatient Stays and Emergency Department Visits Nationally and by State, 2014 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb226-Patient-Residence-Opioid-Hospital-Stays-ED-Visits-by-State.pdf
    December 01, 2016 - opioid- related stays and visits is based on all-listed diagnoses and includes events associated with prescription … These codes include opioid-related use stemming from illicit opioids such as heroin, illegal use of prescription … In addition, the codes do not distinguish between illegal use of prescription drugs and their use as … Relationship between nonmedical prescription-opioid use and heroin use.

  10. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49539/psn-pdf
    June 01, 2007 - Informed or Misled? June 1, 2007 White SM. Informed or Misled? . PSNet [internet]. 2007. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/informed-or-misled The Case A 50-year-old man arrived at the hospital for an elective total knee replacement. Based on preoperative discussions, the patient expected to receive spinal anesthesia.…

  11. In Conversation With... Anna Legreid Dopp, Pharm. D | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-anna-legreid-dopp-pharm-d
    June 29, 2020 - within a traditional dispensing pharmacy, such as encouraging drive-up or curbside pickup or shifting prescription … inappropriate medication use or patient harm. [1] These include patient receipt of the incorrect prescription

  12. Research White Paper Multinational Registries Addendum Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes Third Edition (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/multinational-registries-guide-3rd-ed-addendum-white-paper.pdf
    February 01, 2018 - It can also be challenging to differentiate drugs available by prescription with those available without … a prescription. … recent study of medication use during pregnancy in four EU countries, it was difficult to compare prescription … strategy is not decided in advance by a trial protocol but falls within current practice, and the prescription

  13. Newer Medications for Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Associated With Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/prostatic-hyperplasia-medications_research-protocol.pdf
    April 21, 2015 - intervention to a chronic condition that could be successfully managed medically.6 The prevalence of prescriptions … appropriate and effective treatment options for men with LUTS/BPH and prostate enlargement.7 The number of prescriptions

  14. Final Progress Report: Helping Elders Include Quality in Health Plan Choice (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/uhrig-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Are your prescriptions covered? Where can you go for more information? … (e.g., costs, whether people can see any doctor they want or see a specialist without a referral, prescription … worksheet for participants to call each plan and record whether the plan includes their doctors and their prescriptions

  15. Final Progress Report: An expert-guided machine-learning approach to estimate the incidence, risk, and harms associated with diagnostic delays for infectious diseases (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/polgren-miller-report.pdf
    January 01, 2025 - with increased risk of delays included emergency department visits, telehealth visits, and recent prescriptions … CAntibiotic prescriptions written without a corresponding in-person visit. 11 List of Publications

  16. Living Systematic Review on Cannabis and Other Plant-Based Treatments for Chronic Pain: Surveillance Report 3 (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-250-cannabis-surveillance-report-3_0.pdf
    May 01, 2022 - Marijuana Use Is Not Associated With Changes in Opioid Prescriptions or Pain Severity Among People … Marijuana Use Is Not Associated With Changes in Opioid Prescriptions or Pain Severity Among People … Clinical Conditions and Prescription Drug Utilization among Early Medical Marijuana Registrants in … Perceived Efficacy, Reduced Prescription Drug Use, and Minimal Side Effects of Cannabis in Patients … Risk and benefit of cannabis prescription for chronic non-cancer pain.

  17. Obesity (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/obesity-horizon-scan-high-impact-1506.pdf
    June 01, 2015 - -based, online aggregator of prescription-drug prices, GoodRx, liraglutide under the name Saxenda costs … -based, online aggregator of prescription-drug prices, GoodRx, lists the price of a carton of liraglutide … obesity or for diet and weight control.”67 CIGNA requires prior authorization for Saxenda 9 prescriptions … Also available: https://cignaforhcp.cigna.com/public/content/pdf/ resourceLibrary/prescription/Saxenda.pdf … /public/content/pdf/resourceLibrary/prescription/Saxenda.pdf http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/jc.2014-3415 http

  18. Monitoring Intensification of Treatment for Hyperglycemia and Hyperlipidemia in Patients with Diabetes (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017030-turchin-final-report-2011.pdf
    January 01, 2011 - medications because insulin dosing regiments due to their complexity are frequently not recorded in prescriptions

  19. Section 8: The Care Management Evidence Base (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/medicaidmgmt/mm8a.html
    October 01, 2014 - significantly after using the provider education intervention. 8 Similarly, a third study showed that prescriptions

  20. Toolkit 1. Suspected UTI SBAR Toolkit (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK1_T4-Urinalysis_and_UTIs_Improving_Care-updated.pdf
    October 01, 2016 - • In one research study, more than half of the antibiotic prescriptions for UTIs were for residents
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