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Prescription Costs
"... PURPOSE Although newer, heavily promoted medications are commonly pre-scribed, published evidence and consensus guidelines often support the use of less expensive alternatives. This study was designed to evaluate the impact on prescription costs of a computerized decision support system (CDSS) that ..."
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, and number of new prescriptions fi lled during a 6-month baseline period in which neither group used the system. The primary outcome measure was the difference in prescription costs between the 2 groups after implementation of the CDSS in the intervention group. RESULTS Clinicians who received evidence
interventions?
"... Abstract—Lower limb amputation (LLA) is a devastating complication experienced by some veterans with diabetes. The Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare system has identified the prevention of LLA as a priority goal. This study was designed to describe the sources of outpatient care received by veterans ..."
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of these subjects identified the VA as their primary source of care, and thus would have been available for enrollment in a prevention program. Since over one-half of them had had a prior amputation, diabetics with a prior amputation should be particularly targeted for foot care interventions. Lastly, prescription
Social Norms on Deviations from Prescriptive Handoff Practices
"... Numerous quality improvement projects on patient handoffs have been conducted in the last decade. Most of these projects intervene with a prescriptive model for conducting handoffs. This exploratory pilot study re-analyzed an existing repository of de-identified field notes on handoffs to answer the ..."
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the question: How do healthcare personnel react when deviations from prescriptive handoff practices are detected? We discuss how these findings suggest that prescriptive interventions may fail without having clear expectations for peer-to-peer positive feedback for appropriate deviations during contingencies
an intervention to foster reassessment of prescription after 3 days
"... Objectives: Reassessment of ongoing antibiotic therapy is an important step towards appropriate use of antibiotics. This study was conducted to evaluate the impact of a short questionnaire designed to encourage reassessment of intravenous antibiotic therapy after 3 days. Patients and methods: Patien ..."
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: Patients hospitalized on the surgical and medical wards of a university hospital and treated with an intravenous antibiotic for 3–4 days were randomly allocated to either an intervention or control group. The intervention consisted of mailing to the physician in charge of the patient a three
Warrants for prescription: Analytically and empirically based approaches to improving decision making
- HUMAN FACTORS 47(1), 121-130.
, 2005
"... Efforts to improve decision making must appeal to some source of warrant, i.e., specific criteria or models for guiding and evaluating decision making performance. We examine and compare the warrants for two approaches to decision aids, decision training, and consulting: analytically based prescrip ..."
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prescription, which obtains warrant from formal models, and empirically based prescription, which obtains warrant from descriptive models of successful performance. We argue that empirically based warrants can provide a meaningful and valid basis for prescriptive intervention without committing
Exercise prescription for Iranian midlife women
"... Objectives: The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of a multimodal intervention (including the Women’s Wellness Program) on increasing levels of physical activity in Iranian midlife women. Study design: This 12-week study was conducted in women aged 50–65 years living in the general po ..."
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Objectives: The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of a multimodal intervention (including the Women’s Wellness Program) on increasing levels of physical activity in Iranian midlife women. Study design: This 12-week study was conducted in women aged 50–65 years living in the general
A prescription for health: a primary care based
"... intervention to maintain the non-smoking status of young people ..."
Programs IDENTIFIiRS *Causal Infer nces; Intervention By Prescription
"... Several current approaches to evaluation stress the \cimportance of making explicit the Conceptual structure of a programdisplaying related transactions which-explain the program's. ement from a set of "inputs " to a iet of desired outcdmes. However, individualized programs present pa ..."
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particular difficulties in establishing this line of causality. When the program,isIthekpaMe for all individuals, everyone receiving the same intervention, then the conceptual structure is also the same for everyone--a common ground exists for the nature Of the intervention, the outcomes, and the variables
Prescription Opioid Usage and Abuse Relationships: An Evaluation of State Prescription Drug Monitoring
"... Context: The dramatic rise in the use of prescription opioids to treat non-cancer pain has been paralleled by increasing prescription opioid abuse. However, detailed analyses of these trends and programs to address them are lacking. Objective: To study the association between state shipments of pres ..."
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(source: Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders Systems database) and inpatient admissions for prescription opioid abuse (source: Treatment Episode Data Set) in 14 states with PDMPs (intervention group) and 36 states without PDMPs (control group) for the period 1997–2003. Results: From 1997 to 2003
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