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Dentists Prescribing Fewer High-Alert Drugs to Children

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850

´óÏóAPPNews Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program activities.

February 14, 2023

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Infographic: ´óÏóAPPEvidence Report Confirms Provider-to-Provider Telehealth Can Reduce Rural Health Disparities Across Clinical Settings, including inpatient care, neonatal care, outpatient care for depression, outpatient diabetes care, emergency care for stroke, emergency care for heart attack and chest pain, and trauma care. Accompanying photos include patient in hospital bed, newborn baby, patient with counselor, patient checking blood sugar, emergency team bringing patient to emergency room, and clinician bandaging patient.

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Today's Headlines:

Dental prescriptions to children for potentially dangerous drugs decreased from 2012 to 2019, according to an AHRQ-funded study published in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. The authors identified changes in fills for opioids, sedatives, benzodiazepines and stimulants to children under 18 years. They found that national quarterly dispensing of the Institute for Safe Medication Practice’s high-alert medications decreased about 63 percent. They attributed the change partly to new opioid prescribing recommendations for adults published in 2016. However, older teenagers and children in some poorer counties in southern states continued to receive dental opioids at higher than average rates. The authors concluded that, despite overall improvements, more work is needed to address non-evidence-based reasons that dentists prescribe high-alert medicines to children. Access .

´óÏóAPPhas released a series of topic briefs to inform primary care clinicians’ management of patients’ behavioral health conditions. Topics include information about COVID-19 and its impact on worsening health disparities, the use of telehealth, and guidance for providing care for stimulant use disorder and polysubstance use. These briefs provide information, strategies, tools and resources for addressing the needs of specialty populations, changing and evolving challenges, and emerging opportunities related to behavioral health integration. Access the .

´¡±á¸é²Ï’s highlights journal articles, books and tools related to patient safety. Articles featured this week include:

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Validation of the SDM Process scale to evaluate shared decision-making at clinical sites. Fowler FJ Jr, Sepucha KR, Stringfellow V, et al. J Patient Exp 2021 Nov 26;8:23743735211060811. Access the on PubMed®.

COVID-19 related negative emotions and emotional suppression are associated with greater risk perceptions among emergency nurses: a cross-sectional study. Huff NR, Liu G, Chimowitz H, et al. Int J Nurs Stud Adv 2023 Dec;5:100111. Epub 2022 Nov 30. Access the on PubMed®.

Linking patient safety climate with missed nursing care in labor and delivery units: findings from the LaborRNs Survey. Zhong J, Simpson KR, Spetz J, et al. J Patient Saf 2023 Jan 13. [Epub ahead of print.] Access the on PubMed®.

Relationship between a risk score for QT interval prolongation and mortality across rural and urban inpatient facilities. Tan MS, Heise CW, Gallo T, et al. J Electrocardiol 2022 Dec 9. [Epub ahead of print.] Access the on PubMed®.

The identification of clusters of risk factors and their association with hospitalizations or emergency department visits in home health care. Song J, Chae S, Bowles KH, et al. J Adv Nurs 2023 Feb;79(2):593-604. Epub 2022 Nov 22. Access the on PubMed®.

A framework for a consistent and reproducible evaluation of manual review for patient matching algorithms. Gupta AK, Kasthurirathne SN, Xu H, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2022 Nov 14;29(12):2105-9. Access the on PubMed®.

Early palliative care consultation offsets hospitalization duration and costs for elderly patients with traumatic brain injuries: insights from a level 1 trauma center. Wu A, Zhou J, Quinlan N, et al. J Clin Neurosci 2023 Feb;108:1-5. Epub 2022 Dec 19. Access the on PubMed®.

Pharmacologic and dietary treatments for epilepsies in children aged 1-36 months: a systematic review. Treadwell JR, Kessler SK, Wu M, et al. Neurology 2023 Jan 3;100(1):e16-e27. Epub 2022 Oct 21. Access the on PubMed®.

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