Drug Safety (DC)
Improving medication use systems, reducing adverse drug events and developing innovative assessment and intervention resources
Reducing Adverse Drug Events in the Elderly
Adverse drug events disproportionately affect patients over the age of 65 across all healthcare settings, including hospitals, ambulatory care, and long-term care facilities.
AQIN-DC are working with healthcare providers, patients, and other interested stakeholders in communities across the District of Columbia to reduce and prevent adverse drug events. Our goal is to reduce emergency room visits and hospital readmissions and improve health outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries.
Pharmacists also play a vital role in reducing avoidable hospital readmissions. Recent studies show that more than 15% of Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted within 30 days of discharge at an estimated cost of $12 billion annually. Interventions to improve handoffs between hospitals, physician practices, nursing homes, and others along the continuum of care are well documented. AQIN-DC is working on community-based care transitions programs around the District.
Community Of Practice
The following forums, containing discussions and resources, will be available soon:
- Anticoagulation Safety
- Hypoglycemia Avoidance/Diabetes Care
- Preventing Adverse Drug Events Individualizing Glycemic Targets Using Health Literacy Strategies
- Diabetes Care - Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes - 2019
- National Diabetes Education Program - New Beginnings: A Discussion Guide for Living Well with Diabetes
- 2017 ISMP Guidelines for Optimizing Safe Subcutaneous Insulin Use in Adults
- Diabetes Medication Tables
- Opioid Safety
- CDC's Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
- Opioid Prescribing/Use Continuing Education
- OLDER AMERICANS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH Issue Brief 5: Prescription Medication Misuse and Abuse Among Older Adults
- CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES (CMS) OPIOID MISUSE STRATEGY 2016
- Fight The Opioid Crisis Infographic (from the Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership – HFPP)
- Healthcare Payer Strategies to Reduce the Harms of Opioids White paper (The Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership’s Commitment to the Management of Opioid Misuse and Opioid Use Disorder)
- Prescription Drug Monitoring Program State Videos
- Pain Management (Joint Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs)
- VA Opioid Safety Initiative – how did we get here and what is ahead?
- CDC Rx Awareness Campaign Overview: Addressing the Prescription Opioid Crisis
- New Part D Opioid Overutilization Policies Call – Reducing Opioid Misuse – Jan. 2019
- SAMHSA
Slide sets for prescribers, pharmacists and patients are available to inform and educate the individual regarding the new Medicare Part D policies regarding opioid prescriptions.
Resources
- Brown Bag Toolkit
- Medication Safety and Adverse Drug Event Prevention Toolkit
- Polypharmacy
- Rational Prescribing
- Medication Adherence
- Opioid oversedation, respiratory depression and naloxone administration
- CDC Opioid Guideline Mobile App is now available for free download on Google Play (Android devices) and in the Apple Store (iOS devices)
- Healthcare Utilization Project Statistical Brief - HCUP report
Educational Sessions
- Successful Medication Management through Transitions of Care – May 19, 2015 (PDF) Video Transcript
- Opioids: The Painful truth. Understanding Opioids to Improve Outcomes and Safety
Initiatives
- Cardiovascular Health
- Care Coordination
- Community Based Sepsis
- Diabetes Self-Management
- Drug Safety
- Immunization
- MAPPP
- Nursing Home Quality
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- Nursing Home Quality (NY)
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- QAPI Self-Assessment
- CASPER Data
- Eliminating Inappropriate Antipsychotic Medication Use
- Clinical Quality Measures (QM)
- Composite Measure Score
- NHQCC Collaborative I Kick-Off
- NHQCC Collaborative I Outcomes Congress
- QI/QAPI
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- Using a System's Approach to Quality & Performance Improvement
- Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative (NHQCC) Learning
- Engaging Staff in Individualized Care
- QAPI Self-Assessment and Related Resources
- QAPI In Action
- Quality Improvement (QI) Resources
- Quality Improvement Strategies
- Steps to QAPI
- Elements for Framing QAPI in Nursing Homes
- Clinical Topics
- Resources
- Consumers
- Nursing Home Quality (DC)
- Nursing Home Quality (SC)
- Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship
- Quality Payment Program
- Transforming End of Life
Contact Us
District of Columbia
Jennifer Thomas, PharmD
Medication Safety, Immunizations, &
Antibiotic Stewardship
Atlantic Quality Innovation Network – District of Columbia
Qlarant
7067 Columbia Gateway Drive, Suite 290
Columbia, Maryland 21046
Tel: 410-872-9698
(800) 876-3362, Ext. 11565
Secure Fax (516) 233-3355
thomasj@qlarant.com