Drug Prescriptions

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Pathway for Developing Postoperative Opioid Prescribing Best Practices. 
  • A gap analysis approach to assess patient persistence with glaucoma medication. 
  • A nationwide survey of intravenous antimicrobial use in intensive care units in Japan. 
  • A randomized, controlled trial of a clinical pharmacist intervention to improve inappropriate prescribing in elderly outpatients with polypharmacy. 
  • A retrospective study of opioid prescribing patterns at hospital discharge in surgical patients with obstructive sleep apnea. 
  • A statewide comparison of opioid prescribing in teaching versus nonteaching hospitals. 
  • Accuracy of Administrative Data for Antimicrobial Administration in Hospitalized Children. 
  • Adherence and persistence in the use of warfarin after hospital discharge among patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation. 
  • Adoption of direct-acting antiviral medications for hepatitis C: a retrospective observational study. 
  • Agreement and validity of pharmacy data versus self-report for use of osteoporosis medications among chronic glucocorticoid users. 
  • Alternate methods of framing information about medication side effects: incremental risk versus total risk of occurrence. 
  • An Interdisciplinary Academic Detailing Approach to Decrease Inappropriate Medication Prescribing by Physician Residents for Older Veterans Treated in the Emergency Department. 
  • An XML model that enables the development of complex order sets by clinical experts. 
  • An analysis of disenrollment from Medicare managed care plans by Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes. 
  • An educational initiative in response to identified PrEP prescribing needs among PCPs in the Southern U.S. 
  • Antiaging treatments have been legally prescribed for approximately thirty years. 
  • Antihypertensive drug exposure in premature infants from 1997 to 2013. 
  • Appropriateness of medication prescribing in ambulatory elderly patients. 
  • Aspirin treatment after myocardial infarction: are health maintenance organization members, women, and the elderly undertreated? 
  • Assessment of Trends in Guideline-Based Oral Anticoagulant Prescription for Patients With Ischemic Stroke and Atrial Fibrillation in China. 
  • Association Between Long-term Opioid Use in Family Members and Persistent Opioid Use After Surgery Among Adolescents and Young Adults. 
  • Association between pharmacy medication refill-based adherence rates and cd4 count and viral-load responses: A retrospective analysis in treatment-experienced adults with HIV. 
  • Association between statin use and uveitis: results from the Pacific Ocular Inflammation study. 
  • Association of Hydrocodone Schedule Change With Opioid Prescriptions Following Surgery. 
  • Association of Opioid Prescribing With Opioid Consumption After Surgery in Michigan. 
  • Association of Primary Care Providers' Beliefs of Statins for Primary Prevention and Statin Prescription. 
  • Association of health-related quality of life with dual use of prescription and over-the-counter nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs. 
  • Association of race and gender with use of antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected individuals in the Southeastern United States. 
  • Associations among statins, preventive care, and prostate cancer mortality. 
  • Attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide among physicians in Vermont. 
  • Atypical antipsychotic drugs and diabetes mellitus in a large outpatient population: a retrospective cohort study. 
  • Availability and use of essential medicines in China: manufacturing, supply, and prescribing in Shandong and Gansu provinces. 
  • Barriers to prescribing glucose-lowering therapies with cardiometabolic benefits. 
  • Benefits, risks, and costs of prescription drugs: a scientific basis for evaluating policy options. 
  • Buprenorphine for prescription opioid addiction in a patient with depression and alcohol dependence. 
  • Cardiologists' Perspectives on BiDil and the Use of Race in Drug Prescribing. 
  • Cardiovascular medications and survival in people with ovarian cancer: A population-based cohort study from British Columbia, Canada. 
  • Challenges and Opportunities to Updating Prescribing Information for Longstanding Oncology Drugs. 
  • Changes in Medical Management after Coronary CT Angiography. 
  • Characteristics of treated hypertension in incident hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients. 
  • Children And The Opioid Epidemic: Age-Stratified Exposures And Harms. 
  • Classifying Preoperative Opioid Use for Surgical Care. 
  • Clustering of health, crime and social-welfare inequality in 4 million citizens from two nations. 
  • Comparison of two knowledge bases on the detection of drug-drug interactions. 
  • Concurrent Opioid and Benzodiazepine Prescriptions Among Older Women Diagnosed With Breast Cancer. 
  • Conscience and clinical practice: medical ethics in the face of moral controversy. 
  • Contemporary Trends in Oral Anticoagulant Prescription in Atrial Fibrillation Patients at Low to Moderate Risk of Stroke After Guideline-Recommended Change in Use of the CHADS2 to the CHA2DS2-VASc Score for Thromboembolic Risk Assessment: Analysis From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry's Outpatient Practice Innovation and Clinical Excellence Atrial Fibrillation Registry. 
  • Continuity of medication management in Medicaid patients with chronic comorbid conditions: An examination by mental health status. 
  • Controller Medication Use and Exacerbations for Children and Adults With Asthma in High-Deductible Health Plans. 
  • Core Recommendations for Antifungal Stewardship: A Statement of the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium. 
  • Coronary artery disease risk reduction in HIV-infected persons: a comparative analysis. 
  • Descriptive analysis of concomitant prescription medication patterns from 1999 to 2004 among US women receiving daily or weekly oral bisphosphonate therapy. 
  • Development and Validation of a Model for Opioid Prescribing Following Gynecological Surgery. 
  • Differences in Characteristics and Downstream Drug Use Among Opioid-Naïve and Prior Opioid Users with Low Back Pain. 
  • Direct costs of allergic rhinitis in the United States: estimates from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. 
  • Direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals. 
  • Discontinuation of diabetes and lipid-lowering medications after bariatric surgery at Veterans Affairs medical centers. 
  • Do Patients Fill Their Postoperative Opioid Prescription After Mohs Surgery? A Retrospective Study. 
  • Do clinical decision-support reminders for medical providers improve isoniazid preventative therapy prescription rates among HIV-positive adults? Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Do physicians within the same practice setting manage osteoporosis patients similarly? Implications for implementation research. 
  • Do unmet expectations for specific tests, referrals, and new medications reduce patients' satisfaction? 
  • Does nonpayment for hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infections lead to overtesting and increased antimicrobial prescribing? 
  • Doses of apixaban and rivaroxaban prescribed in real-world United States cardiology practices compared to registration trials. 
  • Dosing recommendations and prescribing patterns for depressed medically ill hospitalized older patients. 
  • Drug therapy team review in a long-term care facility. 
  • Drug use management in board and care facilities. 
  • Drug-prescribing in a family medicine residency program with a pharmacotherapeutics curriculum. 
  • Drug-use patterns among black and nonblack community-dwelling elderly. 
  • Dry eye medication use and expenditures: data from the medical expenditure panel survey 2001 to 2006. 
  • Effect of a computerized prescriber-order-entry system on reported medication errors. 
  • Effectiveness and safety of warfarin initiation in older hemodialysis patients with incident atrial fibrillation. 
  • Emergency Department Attending Physician Variation in Opioid Prescribing in Low Acuity Back Pain. 
  • Enhancing the Quality of Prescribing Practices for Older Veterans Discharged from the Emergency Department (EQUiPPED): Preliminary Results from Enhancing Quality of Prescribing Practices for Older Veterans Discharged from the Emergency Department, a Novel Multicomponent Interdisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Errors associated with outpatient computerized prescribing systems. 
  • Essentials of prescribing in the era of the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act. 
  • Evaluating short- and long-term impacts of a Medicaid "lock-in" program on opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions dispensed to beneficiaries. 
  • Evaluation of Trials Comparing Single-Enantiomer Drugs to Their Racemic Precursors: A Systematic Review. 
  • Evaluation of dyslipidemia in the emergency department: impact of cholesterol testing on subsequent therapy. 
  • Expert Consensus on Metrics to Assess the Impact of Patient-Level Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions in Acute-Care Settings. 
  • Exploratory planning and implementation of a pilot pharmacogenetic program in a community pharmacy. 
  • Factors associated with opioid use after endoscopic sinus surgery. 
  • Falling into the doughnut hole: drug spending among beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease under Medicare Part D plans. 
  • Frequency and Outcomes of Reduced Dose Non-Vitamin K Antagonist Anticoagulants: Results From ORBIT-AF II (The Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation II). 
  • Gastropathy induced by nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: prescribing patterns among geriatric practitioners. 
  • Geographic variation in the prescription of schedule II opioid analgesics among outpatients in the United States. 
  • Health literacy and adherence to glaucoma therapy. 
  • High-Dose Interleukin-2: Evaluation of a Standardized Order Set for Biotherapy in an Intensive Care Unit
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  • Historical Evolution and Provider Awareness of Inactive Ingredients in Oral Medications. 
  • Home blood pressure management and improved blood pressure control: results from a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Hospital variability in the rate of finding obstructive coronary artery disease at elective, diagnostic coronary angiography. 
  • How can innovative uses of technology be harnessed to improve medication adherence? 
  • How objective is medical practice? 
  • Hyperthyroidism in the personalized medicine era: the rise of mathematical optimization. 
  • Identification of provider characteristics influencing prescription of analgesics: a systematic literature review. 
  • Impact of Angiotensin Receptor Blocker Use on Overall Survival Among Patients Undergoing Resection for Pancreatic Cancer. 
  • Impact of Medicaid expansion on access and healthcare among individuals with sickle cell disease. 
  • Impact of Preoperative Opioid Use After Emergency General Surgery. 
  • Impact of inappropriate drug use on health services utilization among representative older community-dwelling residents. 
  • Improved empiric antibiotic prescribing for acute cystitis with use of local urinary antibiogram and clinical decision support system. 
  • Improving blood pressure control by tailored feedback to patients and clinicians. 
  • Improving drug prescribing in a primary care practice. 
  • Improving geriatric prescribing in the ED: a qualitative study of facilitators and barriers to clinical decision support tool use. 
  • Improving the Safety of Teratogen Prescribing Practices in a Pediatric Rheumatology Clinic. 
  • Inappropriate medication use among frail elderly inpatients. 
  • Inappropriate prescribing and health outcomes in elderly veteran outpatients. 
  • Inequities in Filled Overactive Bladder Medication Prescriptions in the US. 
  • Initial experience with teriparatide in the United States. 
  • Inpatient and outpatient patterns of psychotropic drug prescribing by nonpsychiatrist physicians. 
  • Is Opioid-free Post-Vasectomy Analgesia a Pain? A Single Surgeon Experience. 
  • Is medication use by community-dwelling elderly people influenced by cognitive function? 
  • Is optimal angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor dosing neglected in elderly patients with heart failure? 
  • Knowledge, beliefs, and confidence regarding infections and antimicrobial stewardship: a survey of Veterans Affairs providers who care for older adults. 
  • Limitations on Postoperative Opioid Prescriptions and Effects on Health Care Resource Use Following Elective Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion. 
  • Many Medicare Beneficiaries Do Not Fill High-Price Specialty Drug Prescriptions. 
  • Marked differences in antidepressant use by race in an elderly community sample: 1986-1996. 
  • Measurement of depression treatment among patients receiving HIV primary care: Whither the truth? 
  • Medical Marijuana Laws May Be Associated With A Decline In The Number Of Prescriptions For Medicaid Enrollees. 
  • Medical Marijuana Laws Reduce Prescription Medication Use In Medicare Part D. 
  • Medicare beneficiaries and free prescription drug samples: a national survey. 
  • Medication Initiation Burden Required to Comply With Heart Failure Guideline Recommendations and Hospital Quality Measures. 
  • Medication errors in acute cardiac care: An American Heart Association scientific statement from the Council on Clinical Cardiology Subcommittee on Acute Cardiac Care, Council on Cardiopulmonary and Critical Care, Council on Cardiovascular Nursing, and Council on Stroke. 
  • Medication oversupply in patients with diabetes. 
  • Medication taking behaviors in the high- and low-functioning elderly: MacArthur field studies of successful aging. 
  • Medication use patterns among demented, cognitively impaired and cognitively intact community-dwelling elderly people. 
  • Misuse of methamphetamine and prescription stimulants among youths and young adults in the community. 
  • Multifaceted intervention to promote beta-blocker use in heart failure. 
  • National US estimates of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator use: ICD-9 codes substantially underestimate. 
  • National Variation in Opioid Prescription Fills and Long-Term Use in Opioid Naïve Patients after Urological Surgery. 
  • Neighborhood health center patients who use minor tranquilizers. 
  • New antiarrhythmic agents for atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter: United States drug market response as an indicator of acceptance. 
  • Ophthalmic Medication Expenditures and Out-of-Pocket Spending: An Analysis of United States Prescriptions from 2007 through 2016. 
  • Opioid Prescribing After Curative-Intent Surgery: A Qualitative Study Using the Theoretical Domains Framework. 
  • Opioid Use Among Veterans of Recent Wars Receiving Veterans Affairs Chiropractic Care. 
  • Opioid prescribing exceeds consumption following common surgical oncology procedures. 
  • Opioid prescriptions are associated with hepatic encephalopathy in a national cohort of patients with compensated cirrhosis. 
  • Opioids and Public Health: The Prescription Opioid Ecosystem and Need for Improved Management. 
  • Orthopedic Surgeon Decision-Making Processes for Postsurgical Opioid Prescribing. 
  • Outpatient antibiotic prescribing patterns in pediatric academic and community practices. 
  • Outpatient prescribing errors and the impact of computerized prescribing. 
  • PCSK9 Inhibitor Use in the Real World: Data From the National Patient-Centered Research Network. 
  • Patient complexity, prescriber continuity and acute care. 
  • Patient demographics and clinical characteristics influence opioid and nonopioid pain management prescriptions of primary care NPs, PAs, and physicians. 
  • Patient detection of a drug dispensing error by use of physician-provided drug samples. 
  • Patient receipt and understanding of written information provided with isotretinoin and estrogen prescriptions. 
  • Patient-Reported Physician Treatment Recommendations and Compliance Among U.S. Adults with Low Back Pain. 
  • Patterns and predictors of discharge statin prescription among hospitalized patients with intracerebral hemorrhage. 
  • Patterns of Dementia Treatment and Frank Prescribing Errors in Older Adults With Parkinson Disease. 
  • Patterns of opioid analgesic prescription among patients with osteoarthritis. 
  • Perceived discrimination and reported delay of pharmacy prescriptions and medical tests. 
  • Personalized medicine and cancer supportive care: appropriate use of colony-stimulating factor support of chemotherapy. 
  • Perverse incentives in the Medicare prescription drug benefit. 
  • Pharmacists' experience with prescribing hormonal contraception in Oregon. 
  • Pharmacotherapy in Older Adults with Cardiovascular Disease: Report from an American College of Cardiology, American Geriatrics Society, and National Institute on Aging Workshop. 
  • Physicians' preferences for active-controlled versus placebo-controlled trials of new antihypertensive drugs. 
  • Point-of-prescription interventions to improve antimicrobial stewardship. 
  • Population-based hepatitis C surveillance and treatment in a national managed care organization. 
  • Postoperative Opioid Prescribing and the Pain Scores on Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey. 
  • Postoperative opioid prescribing is not my job: A qualitative analysis of care transitions. 
  • Practice Variation in Anticoagulation Prescription and Outcomes After Device-Detected Atrial Fibrillation. 
  • Predictors, Trends, and Outcomes (Among Older Patients ≥65 Years of Age) Associated With Beta-Blocker Use in Patients With Stable Angina Undergoing Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insights From the NCDR Registry. 
  • Prescribing Patterns of Antihypertensive Medications in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review. 
  • Prescribing for Children With Rheumatic Disease: Perceived Treatment Approaches Between Pediatric and Adult Rheumatologists. 
  • Prescribing isotretinoin in the United States for transgender individuals: Ethical considerations. 
  • Prescribing of potentially harmful drugs to patients admitted to hospital after head injury. 
  • Prescribing warfarin at discharge for heart failure patients: findings from the Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry. 
  • Prescription Opioid Use Before and After Hip Arthroscopy: A Caution to Prescribers. 
  • Prescription and nonprescription drug use among black and white community-residing elderly. 
  • Prescription of QT-prolonging drugs in a cohort of about 5 million outpatients. 
  • Prescription of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and muscle relaxants for back pain in the United States. 
  • Prevalence and Patterns of Opioid Use Before and After Liver Transplantation. 
  • Primary non-adherence to bisphosphonates in an integrated healthcare setting. 
  • Promoting population health through financial stewardship. 
  • Provider and patient drivers of ototopical antibiotic prescription variability. 
  • Provider characteristics related to antidepressant use in older people. 
  • Psychopharmacological treatment for very young children: contexts and guidelines. 
  • Psychotropic drugs on general medical and surgical wards of a teaching hospital. 
  • Quality of pharmacotherapy and outcomes for older veterans discharged from the emergency department. 
  • Quantifying Glaucoma Medication Adherence: The Relationship Between Self-Report, Electronic Monitoring, and Pharmacy Refill. 
  • Randomized open-label trial comparing topical prescription triamcinolone to over-the-counter hydrocortisone for the treatment of phimosis. 
  • Rapid assessment of cardiovascular risk among users of smoking cessation drugs within the US Food and Drug Administration's Mini-Sentinel program. 
  • Readability of ocular medication inserts. 
  • Reducing high-risk medication use through pharmacist-led interventions in an outpatient setting. 
  • Reduction in Opioid Prescribing Through Evidence-Based Prescribing Guidelines. 
  • Reduction in heart failure events by the addition of a clinical pharmacist to the heart failure management team: results of the Pharmacist in Heart Failure Assessment Recommendation and Monitoring (PHARM) Study. 
  • Relation of mortality to failure to prescribe beta blockers acutely in patients with sustained ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation following acute myocardial infarction (from the VALsartan In Acute myocardial iNfarcTion trial [VALIANT] Registry). 
  • Reliability of a modified medication appropriateness index in ambulatory older persons. 
  • Reliability of drug utilization evaluation as an assessment of medication appropriateness. 
  • Restricting Benzodiazepines to Short-Term Prescription. 
  • Revisiting literacy and adherence: future clinical and research directions. 
  • Sedative, hypnotic, and antianxiety medication use in an aging cohort over ten years: a racial comparison. 
  • Sex-related differences in the use and adverse effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in heart failure: the study of patients intolerant of converting enzyme inhibitors registry. 
  • Should Physicians be Encouraged to use Generic Names and to Prescribe Generic Drugs? 
  • Should selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors be prescribed to all patients with ischemic heart disease? 
  • Should we just let the anticoagulation service do it? 
  • Study protocol: the Adherence and Intensification of Medications (AIM) study--a cluster randomized controlled effectiveness study. 
  • Suboptimal prescribing in older inpatients and outpatients. 
  • Sulfonylurea Prescribing Patterns After the Introduction of DPP-4 Inhibitors and GLP-1 Receptor Agonists. 
  • Targeting treatments for depression: what can our patients tell us? 
  • Temporal trends and predictors in the use of aldosterone antagonists post-acute myocardial infarction. 
  • The Association Between the Supply of Nonpharmacologic Providers, Use of Nonpharmacologic Pain Treatments, and High-risk Opioid Prescription Patterns Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Persistent Musculoskeletal Pain. 
  • The Impact of Education and Prescribing Guidelines on Opioid Prescribing for Breast and Melanoma Procedures. 
  • The Role of Patient Financial Assistance Programs in Reducing Costs for Cancer Patients. 
  • The association between the supply of select nonpharmacologic providers for pain and use of nonpharmacologic pain management services and initial opioid prescribing patterns for Medicare beneficiaries with persistent musculoskeletal pain. 
  • The clinical pharmacogenomics implementation consortium: CPIC guideline for SLCO1B1 and simvastatin-induced myopathy. 
  • The cost-effectiveness of a clinical pharmacist intervention among elderly outpatients. 
  • The effects of physician specialty and patient comorbidities on the use and discontinuation of coxibs. 
  • The high frequency of healthcare use in patients one year prior to a sarcoidosis diagnosis. 
  • The high societal costs of childhood conduct problems: evidence from administrative records up to age 38 in a longitudinal birth cohort. 
  • The impact of antimicrobial resistance on empiric antibiotic selection and antimicrobial use in clinical practice. 
  • The impact of evidence-based education on prescribing in a psychiatry residency. 
  • The impact of the addition of naloxone on the use and abuse of pentazocine. 
  • The insurance effect on prescription drug expenditures among the elderly: findings from the 1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. 
  • The intersection of patient complexity, prescriber continuity and acute care utilization. 
  • The medication appropriateness index at 20: where it started, where it has been, and where it may be going. 
  • The role of standards in electronic prescribing. 
  • Ticagrelor Use in Acute Myocardial Infarction: Insights From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Trajectories of dispensed prescription opioids among beneficiaries enrolled in a Medicaid controlled substance "lock-in" program. 
  • Transitions of Care for Postoperative Opioid Prescribing in Previously Opioid-Naïve Patients in the USA: a Retrospective Review. 
  • Trends in Mineral Metabolism Treatment Strategies in Patients Receiving Hemodialysis in the United States. 
  • Trends in opioid prescribing and co-prescribing of sedative hypnotics for acute and chronic musculoskeletal pain: 2001-2010. 
  • Tricyclic antidepressant prescribing for nonpsychiatric disorders. An analysis based on data from the 1985 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. 
  • Tuberculosis patient expenditure on drugs and tests in subsidised, public services in China: a descriptive study. 
  • Underreporting potentially inappropriate prescribing for older outpatients: does it matter? 
  • Understanding therapeutic equivalence in epilepsy. 
  • Unnecessary drug use in frail older people at hospital discharge. 
  • Update on Medication Use Quality and Safety in Older Adults, 2017. 
  • Use of Low-Density Lipoprotein-Lowering Therapies Before and After PCSK9 Inhibitor Initiation. 
  • Use of aldosterone antagonists in heart failure. 
  • Use of antidepressants by nonpsychiatrists in the treatment of medically ill hospitalized depressed elderly patients. 
  • Use of guideline-recommended therapies for heart failure in the Medicare population. 
  • Use of inappropriate prescription drugs by older people. 
  • Use of the Internet and e-mail for health care information: results from a national survey. 
  • Variation in Opioid Prescribing After Vaginal and Cesarean Birth: A Statewide Analysis. 
  • Weekly versus monthly drug regimens: 1-year compliance and persistence with bisphosphonate therapy. 
  • What should work, may not. 
  • What types of inappropriate prescribing predict adverse drug reactions in older adults? 
  • Who are the new users of antipsychotic medications? 
  • Will CMS Find Aducanumab Reasonable and Necessary for Alzheimer Disease After FDA Approval? 
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  • Alexander, John Hunter Peel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Grambow, Steven C., Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Patel, Uptal Dinesh, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology
  • Reed, Shelby Derene, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine