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Preliminary Investigation of Pharmacist-Delivered, Direct-to-Provider Interventions to Reduce Co-Prescribing of Opioids and Benzodiazepines among a Medicare Population

Pharmacy, 2020
Co-prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines can lead to overdoses and mortality. This retrospective study analyzed prescription claims data collected in 2016.
Jennifer M. Bingham, Ann M. Taylor, Kevin P. Boesen, David R. Axon   +3 more
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Prescriber opioid patterns following cesarean section pre and post provider training

Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2021
Background: Opioid abuse continues to be an ongoing issue in the United States. Prescriber prescriptions play a large role in this epidemic. This study describes opioid prescribing patterns following cesarean section before and after the New York State ...
Alexa Cohen, Melissa J. Fazzari, Gayatri Nangia, Talitha L. Bruney   +3 more
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Adjustment for ‘Prescriber Type’ in Pharmacoepidemiological Analyses [PDF]

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
Saad Hanif Abbasi, Jesper Hallas, Peter Bjødstrup Jensen   +2 more
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Impact of Pharmacy Based Travel Medicine with the Evolution of Pharmacy Practice in the UK

Pharmacy, 2018
Background: Pharmacy has utilised the changes in legislation since 2000 to increase the range and supply function of services such as travel health to travellers.
Derek Evans
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Variations in Schedule III prescription patterns in a Medicaid population pre- and post-policy

Scientific Reports, 2021
The present study investigated variations in patient movement patterns between prescribers before and after House Bill 1 (HB1) implementation in Kentucky using network abstractions (PPN: prescriber-prescriber networks) from a one-month cross-sectional ...
Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, Jeffery Talbert, Craig S. Miller, Jeffrey Ebersole   +3 more
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Indications‐based prescribing: A challenge for hospital prescribers [PDF]

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2020
Clinicians, patients, administrators and researchers have become increasingly frustrated by the lack of indication (i.e. problem) information included in prescriptions, despite the obvious benefit this would provide to patients and other healthcare providers [1].
Melissa Baysari, Maria Moran, Jessica Del Gigante, Richard Day   +3 more
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Analysis of the relevance of antibiotic therapy and the experience of prescribers in the pediatric department at Bouaké University Hospital (Côte d'Ivoire) [PDF]

Hospital Pharmacology
Introduction: Infectious diseases, particularly among pediatric populations, represent a significant global health problems. Rational antibiotic use is paramount for achieving optimal patient outcomes, but prescribing antibiotics in pediatric settings is
Balayssac Eric Joseph, Djadji Ayoman Thierry Lenoir, Brou N'Guessan Aimé, Bertrand Sangbé, Assé Kouadio Vincent   +4 more
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Association Between Patient-Prescriber Racial and Ethnic Concordance and Postpartum Pain and Opioid Prescribing

Health Equity, 2022
Objective: To evaluate whether patient-prescriber racial and ethnic concordance is associated with postpartum opioid prescribing patterns and patient-reported pain scores.
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Interventions for physician prescribers of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain: protocol for an overview of systematic reviews

BMJ Open, 2022
Introduction Interventions targeting behaviours of physician prescribers of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain have been introduced to combat the opioid crisis.
Brett D Thombs, Sonia Johnson, Kristian B Filion, Andrew Taylor, Jonathan Kimmelman, Erica Wennberg, Genevieve Gore, Irina Kudrina, Mark J Eisenberg, Sarah B Windle, Elena Paraskevopoulos, Marc O Martel   +11 more
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Effect of a targeted quality improvement education on opioid prescribing

BMJ Open Quality, 2023
Background The opioid epidemic is a serious social, economic and public health problem. This study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of individual institutional opioid prescriber training on prescriber adherence to the Centers for Disease ...
Amanda Kaley, Jay M Brenner, Anna M Prince, Susan M Wojcik   +3 more
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