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Effect of Implementing a Dashboard With or Without a Best Practice Alert on HLA‐B*58:01 Testing Rates Among Allopurinol Users at VA Medical Centers

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The American College of Rheumatology recommends HLA‐B*58:01 allele testing before the initiation of allopurinol, specifically among Asian and African American/Black patients, due to their increased risk for severe hypersensitivity reactions. However, testing rates remain low at many health care facilities.
Abimbola Fadairo‐Azinge, Gabriela Schmajuk, Sristi Sharma, Colleen P. Flanagan, Sara Faghihi‐Kashani, Ning Zhang, Mary A. Whooley   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medicines adherence: Involving patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence [PDF]

, 2009
It is thought that between a third and a half of all medicines1 There are many causes of non-adherence but they fall into two overlapping categories: intentional and unintentional.
Benson, J., Blair, J., Bowser, A., Calvert, N., Clyne, W., Crome, P., Haddad, P., Hemingway, S., Horne, R., Johnson, S., Kelly, S., Kuntze, S., National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care, Neilson, J., Nunes, V., O'Flynn, N., Packam, B., Patel, Mahendra, Smithson, H., Steel, J.   +19 more
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Moderators of the Effects of Exercise and Manual Therapy for People With Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective This study aimed to investigate potential moderators influencing the effects of manual therapy and exercise therapy on pain and functional outcomes in individuals with knee and/or hip osteoarthritis, using data from the MOA trial. This is a secondary analysis of data from the MOA trial that compares the clinical effectiveness of manual ...
Daniel Cury Ribeiro, Sarah E. Lamb, J. Haxby Abbott   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discrepancies in Written Versus Calculated Durations in Opioid Prescriptions: Pre-Post Study. [PDF]

, 2020
BACKGROUND: The United States is in the midst of an opioid epidemic. Long-term use of opioid medications is associated with an increased risk of dependence. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention makes specific recommendations regarding opioid
Babula, Bracken, Girondo, Melanie, Kairys, John, Martino, Cara, Riggio, Jeffrey, Roke, Lindsey M., Slovis, Benjamin H.   +6 more
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Prevalence of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Australia, 2010–2022: A Population‐Based Study Using Linked National Administrative Health Data

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a heterogenous inflammatory condition with widely varying global prevalence estimates. The frequency of SLE in the general population of Australia has been reported to be notably lower than contemporary estimates in countries such as the United States or United Kingdom, at 19 to 39 per 100,000 as opposed ...
Lucinda Roper, Rachel Black, Joanna Tieu, Winnie Chen, Matthew Parker, Catherine Hill, Natasha Nassar, Mandana Nikpour   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patient and Prescriber characteristics associated with return to daily-dispense methadone: A multilevel cohort study.

PLOS Mental Health
Early in the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic, modified clinical guidance recommended the provision of take-home methadone doses for those previously ineligible to facilitate social distancing.
Ria Garg, Shaleesa Ledlie, Daniel McCormack, Nikki Bozinoff, Jennifer Wyman, Beth Sproule, Pamela Leece, Mina Tadrous, Ashley Smoke, Charlotte Munro, Tara Gomes   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mind Your Meds: Safe Opioid Disposal Awareness [PDF]

, 2019
Driven by the effects of the opioid epidemic on friends, family members, students, and patients, members of the 2019 GEHLI Team “Mission Possible” are dedicated to bolstering educational awareness of safe leftover opioid disposal methods to decrease the ...
at Virginia Commonwealth University, The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute, Davies, Mary Ann, Fox, Jenny, Johnson, Kenneth, Papenfuse, Jennifer, Schmitt, Michelle, Zhang, Shijun, Zoghby, Lori   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Optimal antimicrobial duration for common bacterial infections [PDF]

, 2019
Most antibiotic use in Australia arises from prescriptions in the community. The risk of antibiotic-related adverse events, including resistance, increases with longer treatment courses.
Daveson, Kathryn, Del Mar, Christopher B., Wilson, Heather L.   +2 more
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Do you think medicines can be prescribed in a more eco-directed, greener way? A qualitative study based on public and prescriber focus groups on the impact of pharmaceuticals in Scotland’s water environment

BMJ Open
Objectives This qualitative study explored public and prescriber awareness of pharmaceutical pollution in the water environment and eco-directed sustainable prescribing (EDSP) as a mitigation strategy to reduce the environmental impact of prescribing in ...
Claire Anderson, Lydia Niemi, Naoko Arakawa, Mark Taggart, Stuart Gibb, Sharon Pfleger   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of health information technology on prescribing errors in hospitals: a systematic review and behaviour change technique analysis

Systematic Reviews, 2020
Background Health information technology (HIT) is known to reduce prescribing errors but may also cause new types of technology-generated errors (TGE) related to data entry, duplicate prescribing, and prescriber alert fatigue.
Joan Devin, Brian J. Cleary, Shane Cullinan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source