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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Controlled Substances"”.
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Use of chart review tool and peer feedback to influence physician prescribing of controlled substances
… the safety and effectiveness of prescribing controlled substances in a primary care setting. METHODS: A Controlled Substance Review Committee, consisting of volunteer primary care physicians and a clinical pharmacist, developed a CRT to assess compliance with a primary care clinic’s …
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Identifying Vulnerabilities for Diversion of Controlled Substances to Inform The Safeguards Needed in Canadian Hospitals to Protect Patients and Healthcare Workers
Introduction: Diversion or theft of controlled substances (CS) is a recognized problem affecting healthcare systems globally. Diversion from hospitals can occur through falsifying orders, tampering with medications, and pilfering stock. The impacts of diversion are serious, causing severe harm to …
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Implementing a standardized EHR-integrated controlled substance agreement in outpatient psychiatry
… events among patients who were prescribed controlled substances. In the psychiatric setting, controlled substances include benzodiazepines, stimulants, and sedative-hypnotics. In most psychiatric practices, communication between patients and providers about prescribing expectations and …
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Teletherapy Effectiveness in 2021 [poster]
… to practice across state lines, prescribe controlled substances, and allowed providers to be paid at the same rate as in-person visits (Policy changes during COVID-19, n.d.). Aim: - Explore how the delivery method of therapy, telehealth vs. face-to-face, impacts patient satisfaction. - …
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Discriminative Stimulus Effects of Gabapentin
… that produced substitution in this study are controlled substances capable of producing rewarding subjective effects. The substitution demonstrated in this study coincides with the past reports of poly-drug misuse, indicating the ability of gabapentin to modulate neurotransmitter pathways …
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Using the Electronic Medical Record to Ensure Compliance with Opioid Prescription Laws in Texas
… and regulates the prescribing and dispensing of controlled substances with respect to patients experiencing chronic pain. LOCAL PROBLEM: At the onset of this project, the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) system had no comprehensive measures in place to ensure compliance with these rules, …
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The Effect of Variability in Substance Abuse and Dependence Terminology on Physicians' Prescribing Decisions
… affecting physicians' decisions in prescribing controlled substances include ideas about addiction, and characteristics of the physician, patient, disease state, and drug. The patient case scenarios and other items on the questionnaire addressed these covariates. Based on the number of …
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The Relationship between Family Functioning and Adolescent Substance Use
… cohesion, and communication, parental use of substances, adolescent age and gender and the criterion variables of adolescent behavioral intention and self-reported use of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs. The theoretical perspectives of the study, derived from developmental theory and the …
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Forensic sample analysis using supercritical fluid extraction coupled with solid phase microextraction
A third of adults in the UK admit to using controlled substances at least once hi their lives and the most commonly abused drug was found to be cannabis, followed by the opiates and ecognine derivatives. Forensic laboratories are continually trying to reduce the turnaround time for samples …
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Social disparities in the epidemiology and treatment of substance-related use disorders in the United States, 2002-16
… in the supply, trade, and misuse or abuse of substances have prompted researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to cast a more critical eye towards their root causes in order to develop more effective drug policy. While historical approaches to substance use disorders have primarily focused …
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Analysis of Illicit Drugs, Their Metabolites and Other Micropollutants in Water by Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry
… and pharmaceuticals, such as antibiotics and controlled substances. In the first part of this study, we focused in the analysis of illicit drugs and drug metabolites because these analyses have the potential to serve as markers of drug abuse. We have detected over sixteen different illicit …
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Reproducibility of Retention Indices Examining Column Type
… only capable of processing about 80% of their controlled substances requests. Based upon this statistic, an estimated 220,000 cases per year would be back-logged. Therefore, tools that can improve the process of seized drug analysis would be of use. This project addresses one such concept, the …
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Cucurbit[n]uril-engineered Nano-constructs for Molecular Sensing
… detection of versatile chemicals, biomolecules, controlled substances and auxiliary diagnostics of various diseases. The fourth chapter introduces a facile preparation of monodispersed γ-Fe2O3@Au magnetic nanoraspberry NPs using a one-pot seeded growth method. The obtained nanoraspberry NPs show …
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Hair analysis for drugs of abuse
… forensic toxicology. There are a large number of controlled substances and doping agents and novel compounds, which have yet to be characterised. A series of screening methods for drugs of abuse in hair were developed using LC-MS/MS and GC-MS/MS. Using our own library of MRM transitions, the …