Implementation and Evaluation of Clinical Decision Support for Apixaban Dosing in a Community Teaching Hospital.

Objectives: This study aimed to describe and evaluate the transition from a specialty service-based prospective order approval system to a computerized clinical decision support (CCDS) tool for apixaban dosing at a community teaching hospital. The primary objective was to assess the impact of the transition on the appropriateness of apixaban prescribing.

Methods: A CCDS tool for apixaban dosing was developed and implemented using interprofessional collaboration.

Association of opioid exposure during intensive care unit stays with post-discharge opioid use: A retrospective study and literature review.

Objective: To evaluate whether pain management strategies within intensive care unit (ICU) settings contribute to chronic opioid use upon hospital discharge in opioid-naive patients requiring invasive mechanical ventilation.

Design: A retrospective, observational study.

Setting: An 18-bed mixed ICU at a community teaching hospital located in Brooklyn, New York.