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Steven M. Handler MD, PhD, CMD

Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Verified email at pitt.edu
Cited by 6041

Epidemiology of medication-related adverse events in nursing homes

SM Handler, RM Wright, CM Ruby, JT Hanlon - The American journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND:: Nursing home residents are prescribed more medications than patients in
any other clinical setting. Although pharmacotherapy for older nursing home residents is …

[HTML][HTML] Patient safety culture: A review of the nursing home literature and recommendations for practice

AF Bonner, NG Castle, S Perera… - The annals of long-term …, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Patient safety culture (PSC) is a critical factor in creating high-reliability health-care
organizations. Most PSC research studies to date have been conducted in acute care …

The effectiveness of integrated health information technologies across the phases of medication management: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

KA McKibbon, C Lokker, SM Handler… - Journal of the …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Objective The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality funded an evidence
report to address seven questions on multiple aspects of the effectiveness of medication …

Features of effective computerised clinical decision support systems: meta-regression of 162 randomised trials

PS Roshanov, N Fernandes, JM Wilczynski… - Bmj, 2013 - bmj.com
Objectives To identify factors that differentiate between effective and ineffective
computerised clinical decision support systems in terms of improvements in the process of …

Prevalence of unplanned hospitalizations caused by adverse drug reactions in older veterans

ZA Marcum, ME Amuan, JT Hanlon… - Journal of the …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To describe the prevalence of unplanned hospitalizations caused by adverse
drug reactions (ADRs) in older veterans and to examine the association between this …

Medication nonadherence: a diagnosable and treatable medical condition

ZA Marcum, MA Sevick, SM Handler - Jama, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
MEDICATION NONADHERENCE IS WIDELY RECOG-nized as a common and costly
problem. 1 Ap-proximately 30% to 50% of US adults are not adherent to long-term …

Discontinuing medications: a novel approach for revising the prescribing stage of the medication‐use process

KT Bain, HM Holmes, MH Beers, V Maio… - Journal of the …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Thousands of Americans are injured or die each year from adverse drug reactions, many of
which are preventable. The burden of harm conveyed by the use of medications is a …

Risk factors for acute kidney injury in older adults with critical illness: a retrospective cohort study

SL Kane-Gill, FE Sileanu, R Murugan… - American journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Risk for acute kidney injury (AKI) in older adults has not been evaluated
systematically. We sought to delineate the determinants of risk for AKI in older compared …

Beyond the prescription: medication monitoring and adverse drug events in older adults

MA Steinman, SM Handler, JH Gurwitz… - Journal of the …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Whether a person will suffer harm from a medication or how severe that harm will be is
difficult to predict precisely. As a result, many adverse drug events (ADEs) occur in patients …

Consensus guidelines for oral dosing of primarily renally cleared medications in older adults

JT Hanlon, SL Aspinall, TP Semla… - Journal of the …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
OBJECTIVES: To establish consensus oral dosing guidelines for primarily renally cleared
medications prescribed for older adults. DESIGN: Literature search followed by a two‐round …