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Variations In Schedule Iii Prescription Patterns In A Medicaid Population Pre- And Post-Policy, Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, Jeffery C. Talbert, Craig S. Miller, Jeffrey Ebersole

Pharmacy Practice and Science Faculty Publications

The present study investigated variations in patient movement patterns between prescribers before and after House Bill 1 (HB1) implementation in Kentucky using network abstractions (PPN: prescriber-prescriber networks) from a one-month cross-sectional Schedule III prescription data in a Medicaid population. Network characteristics such as degree centrality distribution of PPN was positively skewed and revealed Dental Practitioners to be the highly connected specialty with opioid analgesic hydrocodone-acetaminophen to be the most commonly prescribed drug. Taxonomy enrichment of the prescriber specialties in PPN using chi-square test revealed a reduction in the enriched taxonomies Post-HB1 compared to Pre-HB1 with Dental practitioners being constitutively enriched …

Prescription And Over-The-Counter Medication Record Integration: A Holistic Patient-Centered Approach, Clark D. Kebodeaux

Pharmacy Practice and Science Faculty Publications

Objective: Nonprescription or over-the-counter (OTC) medications play a crucial role in a patient’s ability to make choices to manage his or her own health care. Often these nonprescription choices are unknown to health care practitioners and thus are often not included as part of patients’ health records. The exclusion of these therapies can pose risks to patient safety. There is a significant need to address the capture of OTC medication use in both the physician and pharmacy electronic health records (EHRs) and during the practitionerepatient medication history and reconciliation process.

Data sources: On October 26, 2016, the National Association of …