Inappropriate Prescribing

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Pharmacy-Based Electronic Handoff Tool to Reduce Discharge Prescribing of Atypical Antipsychotics Initiated in the Intensive Care Unit: A Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • A cluster-randomized trial of two implementation strategies to deliver audit and feedback in the EQUIPPED medication safety program. 
  • A novel diagnostic approach may reduce inappropriate antibiotic use for acute respiratory infections. 
  • Addressing Polypharmacy in Older Adults Living With HIV. 
  • An Interdisciplinary Academic Detailing Approach to Decrease Inappropriate Medication Prescribing by Physician Residents for Older Veterans Treated in the Emergency Department. 
  • Antibiotic overuse for acute respiratory tract infections in Sri Lanka: a qualitative study of outpatients and their physicians. 
  • Antibiotic stewardship: reassessment of guidelines for management of neonatal sepsis. 
  • Antipsychotics and dementia: where do we go from here? 
  • Association of adverse drug reactions with drug-drug and drug-disease interactions in frail older outpatients. 
  • Characteristics of dual drug benefit use among veterans with dementia enrolled in the Veterans Health Administration and Medicare Part D. 
  • Chronic pain and analgesic use in CKD: implications for patient safety. 
  • Core Recommendations for Antifungal Stewardship: A Statement of the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium. 
  • Deprescribing in Older Adults With Cardiovascular Disease. 
  • Does perverse economic incentive lead to the irrational uses of medicines? 
  • Drawing Attention to Potentially Inappropriate Medications for Older Adults Receiving Dialysis. 
  • Dual Health Care System Use and High-Risk Prescribing in Patients With Dementia: A National Cohort Study. 
  • Dual Health Care System Use and Unsafe Medication Prescribing in Veterans With Dementia. 
  • Early prescribing outcomes after exporting the EQUIPPED medication safety improvement programme. 
  • Effect of Pharmacogenomic Testing for Drug-Gene Interactions on Medication Selection and Remission of Symptoms in Major Depressive Disorder: The PRIME Care Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Enhancing Quality of Provider Practices for Older Adults in the Emergency Department (EQUiPPED). 
  • Impact of Implementation of the Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Within Veterans Health Administration Emergency Departments and Primary Care Clinics on Antibiotic Prescribing and Patient Outcomes. 
  • Implications of atypical antipsychotic prescribing in the intensive care unit. 
  • Inappropriate nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use: prevalence and predictors. 
  • Inappropriate outpatient antibiotic use in children insured by Kentucky Medicaid. 
  • Medication Use Quality and Safety in Older Adults: 2018 Update. 
  • Medication misadventures in older adults: literature from 2013. 
  • Medication use quality and safety in older adults: 2020 update. 
  • Opioid misuse in gastroenterology and non-opioid management of abdominal pain. 
  • Perioperative Opioids and Public Health. 
  • Point-prevalence study of antimicrobial use in public hospitals in southern Sri Lanka identifies opportunities for improving prescribing practices. 
  • Recent Literature Update on Medication Risk in Older Adults, 2015-2016. 
  • Reducing Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing for Adults With Acute Bronchitis in an Urgent Care Setting: A Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Reducing polypharmacy: evidence from a simple quality improvement initiative. 
  • Research needs in antibiotic stewardship. 
  • Risk of Potentially Inappropriate Medications in Adults With CKD: Findings From the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study. 
  • The Enhancing Quality of Prescribing Practices for Older Veterans Discharged From the Emergency Department (EQUIPPED) Potentially Inappropriate Medication Dashboard: A Suitable Alternative to the In-person Academic Detailing and Standardized Feedback Reports of Traditional EQUIPPED? 
  • The Impact of Education and Prescribing Guidelines on Opioid Prescribing for Breast and Melanoma Procedures. 
  • The medication appropriateness index at 20: where it started, where it has been, and where it may be going. 
  • Transfusion in critical care - a UK regional audit of current practice. 
  • Update of studies on drug-related problems in older adults. 
  • Update on Medication Use Quality and Safety in Older Adults, 2017. 
  • Use of Rapid Influenza Testing to Reduce Antibiotic Prescriptions Among Outpatients with Influenza-Like Illness in Southern Sri Lanka.