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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Death Rates from Drug Overdose [PDF]

Pain Medicine, 2011
Drug overdoses resulting from the abuse of prescription opioid analgesics and other controlled substances have increased in number as the volume of such drugs prescribed in the United States has grown. State prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) are designed to prevent the abuse of such drugs.
Leonard J, Paulozzi, Edwin M, Kilbourne, Hema A, Desai   +2 more
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Opioid Analgesic Prescribing Practices of Dental Professionals in the United States [PDF]

, 2017
The prescription of opioid analgesics by dental professionals is widespread in the United States. Policy makers, government agencies, and professional organizations consider this phenomenon a growing public health concern.
Okunseri, Christopher, Okunseri, Elaye, Steinmetz, C. N., Szabo, Aniko, Zheng, C.   +4 more
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A retrospective and cross-sectional study to evaluate potential drug – drug interaction in hospitalized pediatrics, Bandar Abbas, Iran [PDF]

Trends in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2018
Background: The incidence of drug interactions in hospitalized patients due to the administration of various drugs, the lack of proper monitoring and sometimes multiple patient’s co-morbidities, is common.
Motahareh Ahmadi, Abd Nazemi, Seyedeh Fatemeh Davoodpour, Fahimeh Gharaie Pour, Maryam Montaseri, Omid Safa   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stigma as a fundamental hindrance to the United States opioid overdose crisis response. [PDF]

, 2019
Alexander Tsai and co-authors discuss the role of stigma in responses to the US opioid ...
Barnett, Michael L, Beletsky, Leo, Keyes, Katherine M, Kiang, Mathew V, McGinty, Emma E, Smith, Laramie R, Strathdee, Steffanie A, Tsai, Alexander C, Venkataramani, Atheendar S, Wakeman, Sarah E   +9 more
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Using pharmacy surveillance information systems to monitor the dispensing practice of under-controlled drugs: A qualitative study on necessities, requirements, and implementation challenges

Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 2023
The food and drug administration (FDA) usually monitors drug dispensing practices to manage their resources. Despite advances in information technology, traditional paper-based processes are used for this purpose in several low and middle income ...
Reza Abbasi, Negin Masoudi Alavi, Mehrdad Farzandipour, Yang Gong, Ehsan Nabovati   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Association of Mandatory-Access Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs With Opioid Prescriptions Among Medicare Patients Treated by a Medical or Hematologic Oncologist.

JAMA Oncol, 2020
This cohort study examines the association between prescription drug monitoring program mandates with and without a cancer exemption and the percent of oncologists’ patients with any opioid prescription covered by Medicare Part D.
Graetz I, Yarbrough CR, Hu X, Howard DH.
europepmc   +2 more sources

COVID-19-related adaptations to the implementation and evaluation of a clinic-based intervention designed to improve opioid safety

Drugs in Context, 2021
The United States faces an opioid crisis with an unprecedented and increasing death rate from opioid overdose. Successfully reducing the rates of opioid use disorder (OUD) and overdose will require the engagement of frontline clinicians to prescribe ...
Anna R Morgan, Michelle A Hendricks, Sanae El Ibrahimi, Sara E Hallvik, Brigit Hatch, Caitlin Dickinson, Dagan Wright, Michael A Fischer   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integration of biometric ID for the effective collection and epidemiological evaluation of antibiotic prescription in tuberculosis and other diseases: A medical hypothesis

Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, 2020
Objective: Tuberculosis (TB) poses a huge socioeconomic burden and remains listed among the top ten causes of deaths across the globe, despite enormous efforts of health agencies and researchers. The primary concern in a relatively slower pace of curbing
Aditya Arya, Sneha Singh, Vivek Dhar Dwivedi, H Shakila   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vancomycin prescribing and therapeutic drug monitoring: Challenges of real clinical practice.

PLoS ONE, 2023
BackgroundVancomycin prescription and monitoring guidelines have been reported to be poorly followed by various centers.AimsIdentifying barriers to compliance with vancomycin dosing and therapeutic drug monitoring guidelines (TDM) and possible ways to ...
Mariam Hantash Abdel Jalil, Rima Ηijazeen, Farah Khaled Abu-Mahfouz, Khawla Abu Hammour, Maria Hasan Matalqah, Jwan Saleh Khaleel Albadaineh, Shrouq Khaled AlOmoush, Montaha Al-Iede   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Psychosocial Correlates of Clinicians’ Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Utilization [PDF]

American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2018
The purpose of this study is to extend prior research on barriers to use of a prescription drug monitoring program by examining psychosocial correlates of intended use among physicians and pharmacists.Overall, 1,904 California physicians and pharmacists responded to a statewide survey (24.1% response rate) from August 2016 to January 2017. Participants
Pugliese, John A, Wintemute, Garen J, Henry, Stephen G   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources