See related article at KEY POINTS Opioids prescribed by clinicians can lead to opioid use disorder, opioid misuse, and other opioid-related harms. A single opioid prescription is not without risk and ...

On January 17, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) jointly published two final ...

A patient portal can also be used to request prescription refills, which then via e-prescribing will be transmitteds directly to a pharmacy. Some will also have a telemedicine software feature for ...

When patients are unable to obtain medications due to a prescription denial, they may be hospitalized or visit the ED due to an exacerbation of their chronic conditions. For example, a patient ...

Over half of prescribing outcomes significantly improved following ... Academic detailing was combined with audit and feedback (32%), patient education (17%), electronic health record decision support ...

However, in some cases, a person may be able to collect the prescription from a local pharmacy on the same day. For example, a 2020 study looking into 15 online retailers of vardenafil (Levitra ...

The practice must check that the information they are referring to is up to date. This example shows how updates affect safe prescribing. Valproate (Epilim, Depakote and other generic brands) is a ...

The employment of E-Prescribing, an electronic method for prescribing medicines, is rapidly growing in popularity among healthcare professionals due to its proficiency in managing and tracking ...

On January 17, 2025, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published two rules regarding telemedicine prescribing of controlled ...

Trump rescinded Executive Order 14087, "Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans," which directed Medicare and Medicaid agencies to research and implement models for lowering the costs of ...

The mystery to GPs is why hospitals have been so slow to follow our example. From our perspective ... generates the need for an urgent prescription from the GP. These problems, and more, would be ...

There is an alternative. Introduced by the U.K. in 2019, social prescribing connects patients to community services that improve their health. Instead of writing prescriptions for pills ...