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221. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2007 - published clinical algorithms are often imperfect in making the diagnosis and guiding appropriate therapy … As patients usually improve symptomatically even without antibiotic therapy, the goal of antibiotic therapy … Recent support by some for short-course antibiotic therapy (fewer than 10 full days of a penicillin … A positive RADT should result in antibiotic therapy for patients with consistent signs and symptoms. … Treatment of acute streptococcal pharyngitis and prevention of rheumatic fever: a statement for health

222. Spotlight Case July 2008 (ppt file)
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     September 01, 2012 - Prevention of peripheral venous catheter complications with an intravenous therapy team: a randomized … deterioration was likely caused by a peripheral IV catheter infection Cost for diagnostic tests and treatments … Teams One of the most effective ways to prevent peripheral IV complications is through the use of IV therapy … Prevention of peripheral venous catheter complications with an intravenous therapy team: a randomized … Prevention of peripheral venous catheter complications with an intravenous therapy team: a randomized

223. Too Tight Control | PSNet
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     March 20, 2013 - Secondly, clinicians may administer therapies to patients who would have been excluded from trials.( … , or unnecessary treatment. … Increasingly, quality improvement efforts focus on decreasing the extent of "underuse" of effective therapies … However, even as we focus on ensuring that such therapies are uniformly used, we must remember that harm … Intensive insulin therapy in the critically ill patients.

224. Assessing the clinical, economic, and health resource utilization impacts of prefilled syringes versus conventional medication administration methods: results from a systematic literature review. | PSNet
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     August 15, 2018 - Related Resources From the Same Author(s) Improving adherence to long-term opioid therapy … August 15, 2018 Optimizing Therapy to Prevent Avoidable Hospital Admissions in Multimorbid … Cases Don’t Wait to Collect an Accurate Weight: A Case of Subtherapeutic Insulin Therapy

225. Standardized competencies for parenteral nutrition prescribing: The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Model. | PSNet
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     February 17, 2015 - June 20, 2018 ASPEN Safe Practices for Enteral Nutrition Therapy. … December 4, 2024 Improving administration and documentation of enteral nutrition support therapy … June 20, 2018 ASPEN Safe Practices for Enteral Nutrition Therapy.

226. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/34814/psn-pdf
     January 01, 2015 - Factors thought to contribute to adverse drug events are discussed, including multiple drug therapy, … Future studies must account for the factors more likely to impact poor outcomes with drug therapy.

227. Clostridium Difficile Relapse Secondary to Medication Access Issue | PSNet
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     October 01, 2015 - last 10 years and will likely continue to change with the introduction of novel antibiotics, adjunct therapies … problems may arise when a patient transitions out of the hospital while continuing oral vancomycin therapy … These pharmacies provide more flexibility and customization of medication therapy than typically available … However, in most cases of CDI—including severe episodes—appropriate antibiotic therapy should result … Take-Home Points Determine if vancomycin is appropriate therapy based on institutional or national

228. The health care cost of drug-related morbidity and mortality in nursing facilities. | PSNet
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     September 19, 2016 - of physicians and pharmacists, investigators designed conditional probabilities attributable to drug therapy … Their findings suggest that, for every dollar spent on drug therapy, nearly $1.33 in health care resources … are consumed in the treatment of drug-related problems.

229. Prescribing for the elderly. Part I: Sensitivity of the elderly to adverse drug reactions. | PSNet
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     January 11, 2017 - Factors thought to contribute to adverse drug events are discussed, including multiple drug therapy, … Future studies must account for the factors more likely to impact poor outcomes with drug therapy. … December 14, 2022 Health disparities: impact of health disparities and treatment

230. Association of polypharmacy and potential drug-drug interactions with adverse treatment outcomes in older adults with advanced cancer. | PSNet
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     May 25, 2016 - Study Association of polypharmacy and potential drug-drug interactions with adverse treatment … Association of polypharmacy and potential drug‐drug interactions with adverse treatment outcomes in older … Polypharmacy and PDIs were associated with increased risk of adverse treatment outcomes, but PIMs were … the randomized AMBORA trial to clinical practice: comparison of medication errors in oral antitumor therapy … June 16, 2019 Minimising treatment-associated risks in systemic cancer therapy.

231. Enteral Nutrition Safety Toolkit. | PSNet
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     February 01, 2023 - Same Author(s) Improving administration and documentation of enteral nutrition support therapy … More Related Resources Health Literacy Tools for Providers of Medication Therapy

232. One ACE Too Many | PSNet
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     June 21, 2016 - First, the physician formulated the incorrect assumption that ACE inhibitor therapy had been previously … heavily influenced by multiple factors, including the dose of the offending drug(s), use of concomitant therapies … outpatients, their deaths are often misattributed to heart disease rather than an adverse effect of therapy … The obvious downsides of this approach are the delay to treatment and the possibility that the therapy … March 15, 2017 Guideline for opioid therapy and chronic noncancer pain.

233. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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     May 01, 2015 - illness progressed and in discussions with her family, the decision was made to withdraw life-sustaining therapies … 637. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23353941 11 Initial Management Initial management involves treatment … Early goal-directed therapy in the treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock. … Early goal-directed therapy in the treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock. … Such treatment could have altered her hospital course 27 27 Take-Home Points Sepsis, severe sepsis

234. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2014 - One week of appropriate H. pylori treatment resulted in no improvement in symptoms; in fact, the patient … Consequently, the risks associated with ARV "polypharmacy" are compounded by the treatments associated … The Helicobacter pylori treatment presumably included clarithromycin, and this antibiotic CYP3A4 inhibitor … In addition, practicing medicine unaware of therapies given by a patient's other providers negates the … Formally communicate and review your therapeutic measures with both patients and your colleagues.

235. Rapid Mis-St(r)ep | PSNet
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     February 01, 2004 - , published clinical algorithms are often imperfect in making the diagnosis and guiding appropriate therapy … As patients usually improve symptomatically even without antibiotic therapy, the goal of antibiotic therapy … Recent support by some for short-course antibiotic therapy (fewer than 10 full days of a penicillin or … A positive RADT should result in antibiotic therapy for patients with consistent signs and symptoms. … Treatment of acute streptococcal pharyngitis and prevention of rheumatic fever: a statement for health

236. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/35516/psn-pdf
     February 03, 2011 - The authors suggest that use of oxygen therapy provides a low-cost intervention that poses an opportunity … that demonstrate unquestioned benefit, such as the timing and delivery of prophylactic antibiotic therapy

237. Enteral nutrition: an underappreciated source of patient safety events. | PSNet
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     February 01, 2023 - Enteral nutrition (EN) therapies are vulnerable to the same types of errors as those occurring in the … Same Author(s) Improving administration and documentation of enteral nutrition support therapy … June 12, 2024 Improving administration and documentation of enteral nutrition support therapy

238. The Pains of Chronic Opioid Usage | PSNet
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     April 04, 2018 - hydrocodone and 83% of all oxycodone worldwide.( 1,3,4 ) Unfortunately, the dramatic rise in use of therapeutic … of patients.( 19 ) Consequently, the overuse and abuse of opioids, including the escalation of the therapeutic … Informed consent and a treatment agreement can be essential and should include clear descriptions of … Use of Chronic Opioid Therapy in Chronic Non-cancer Pain: Evidence Review. … Trends in long-term opioid therapy for chronic non-cancer pain.

239. More than 1 million potential second victims: how many could nursing education prevent? | PSNet
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     May 30, 2018 - Resources From the Same Author(s) Making an infusion error: the second victims of infusion therapy-related … July 31, 2013 ASPEN Safe Practices for Enteral Nutrition Therapy. … October 10, 2018 Making an infusion error: the second victims of infusion therapy-related

240. Are physicians safely prescribing opioids for chronic noncancer pain? A systematic review of current evidence. | PSNet
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     November 07, 2018 - April 4, 2018 Patient outcomes in dose reduction or discontinuation of long-term opioid therapy … November 8, 2017 Guideline for opioid therapy and chronic noncancer pain. … January 11, 2017 The effectiveness and risks of long-term opioid therapy for chronic