Comparing the New York State Smokers’ Quitline Reach, Services Offered, and Quit Outcomes to 44 Other State Quitlines, 2010 to 2015

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 1264-1272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Mann ◽  
James Nonnemaker ◽  
LeTonya Chapman ◽  
Asma Shaikh ◽  
Jesse Thompson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Data Warehouse ◽  
Tobacco Cessation ◽  
New York State ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tobacco Use Cessation ◽  
Us States ◽  
York State ◽  
Self Help

Purpose: To summarize the reach, services offered, and cessation outcomes of the New York Quitline and compare with other state quitlines. Design: Descriptive study. Setting: Forty-five US states. Participants: State-sponsored tobacco cessation quitlines in 45 US states that provided complete data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Quitline Data Warehouse (NQDW) for 24 quarters over 6 years (2010-Q1 through 2015-Q4). Intervention: Telephone quitlines that offer tobacco use cessation services, including counseling, self-help materials, and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), to smokers at no cost to them. Measures: Percentage of adult tobacco users in the state who received counseling and/or free NRT from state quitlines (reach), services offered by state quitlines, and cessation outcomes among quitline clients 7 months after using quitline services. Analysis: Reach, services offered, and cessation outcomes for the New York Quitline were compared with similar measures for the other 44 state quitlines with complete NQDW data for all quarters from 2010 through 2015. Results: New York’s average annual quitline reach from 2010 through 2015 was 3.0% per year compared to 1.1% per year for the other 44 states examined. Conclusion: Although the New York Quitline was open fewer hours per week and offered fewer counseling sessions and a smaller amount of free NRT than most of the other 44 state quitlines, the New York Quitline had similar quit rates to most of those state quitlines.

The Impact of Legislation Requiring DNR Orders: New York State Compared with Neighboring States

1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 335-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Teres ◽  
Keith Boyd ◽  
John Rapoport ◽  
Martin Strosberg ◽  
Robert Baker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Length Of Stay ◽  
Data Base ◽  
New York State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Data Bases ◽  
York State ◽  
Icu Discharge ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Dnr Orders

Decisions to place limitations on the care of patients are complex, and they often involve physicians, other medical professionals, patients, or a surrogate decision-maker, family members, and others. In 1988, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO) and the New York State government adopted two different approaches to this complex issue of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders: one involved professional self-regulation, whereas the other mandated a standardized procedure requiring completion of legal documents. This study examines the impact of these two different approaches to writing of DNR orders for adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients on utilization and resulting length of stay. The study used three data bases. One is from a larger study designed to update the Mortality Probability Model (MPM), a measure of severity of illness for ICU patients. This data base includes consecutive admissions to the adult ICUs of four hospitals in the northeastern United States. The second is a similar data base from the European-North American Study of Severity Systems (ENAS), and it includes 20 hospitals. The third data base, a 1991 national survey of ICUs by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), lists characteristics of patients in ICUs in the United States on a specific day. Logistic regression was used to analyze the first two data bases; the percentage of patients in New York with DNR orders was calculated for each of the three data bases and compared with patients in neighboring states. Length of ICU and hospital stay was measured in the first two data sets. In the MPM data, 14.4% of medical patients in New York had a DNR order written at the time of ICU discharge, compared with 198% of medical patients in Massachusetts; and 4.3% of New York surgical patients had a DNR order written at the time of ICU discharge, compared with 8.3% of surgical patients in Massachusetts. In the ENAS data, 7.4% of New York nonoperative patients has a DNR order in place within 24 hours, compared with 8.4% of such patients in the other states; and 1.0% of New York operative patients had DNR orders, compared with 3–5% of operative patients from other states. Logistic regression revealed that a New York patient was less likely to have a DNR order written than a patient located in one of the other states studied. Data from the SCCM survey demonstrated that the New York percentage of patients with “no CPR” orders was 5.50%, compared with a percentage of 6.87% in other states. With few exceptions, these differences between New York and surrounding states did not have an impact on hospital length of stay. During the period studied following implementation of New York's DNR Law, utilization of DNR orders in New York State was significantly lower than neighboring states. This decreased utilization, however, did not effect hospital utilization as measured through length of stay and ICU admissions.

scholarly journals Failure of Agrobacterium radiobacter Strain K-84 to Control Crown Gallon Raspberry

HortScience ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 1017-1019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Burr ◽  
Cheryl L. Reid ◽  
Barbara H. Katz ◽  
Maria Elisabetta Tagliati ◽  
Carlo Bazzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Crown Gall ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
New York State ◽  
Rubus Idaeus ◽  
The Other ◽  
Agrobacterium Radiobacter ◽  
York State ◽  
Almost All

Agrobacterium radiobacter (Beijerinc and van Delden) Conn strain K-84 failed to control raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.) crown gall caused by A. tumefaciens (E.F. Smith and Townsend) Conn. Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains isolated from galls on plants that had been treated with K-84 were not sensitive to agrocin 84 in vitro. These strains were isolated from `Titan' and `Hilton' raspberry in New York state and from `Himbo Queen' and `Schönemann' raspberry in Italy. Almost all strains were identified as A. tumefaciens biovar 2. Raspberry crown gall was not controlled by K-84 in three field experiments in New York state. In two of the experiments, plants were produced by micropropagation and were known to be pathogen-free. The other plant source was shown to be contaminated with the pathogen before treatment with K-84. Crown gall was not controlled either on raspberry in a greenhouse experiment or on Kalanchoe diagremintiana (Hamet. and Perrier) plants that were coinoculated with K-84 and strains of A. tumefaciens isolated from galls on raspberry.

An Investigation of Potential Neurosurgical Transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Challenges and Lessons Learned

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 302-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel L. Stricof ◽  
Patricia P. Lillquist ◽  
Nadia Thomas ◽  
Ermias D. Belay ◽  
Lawrence B. Schonberger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Other ◽  
Neurosurgical Procedures ◽  
State Health ◽  
York State ◽  
Time Of Surgery ◽  
Jakob Disease

In 2001, New York State health officials were notified about 2 patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease who had undergone neurosurgical procedures at the same hospital within 43 days of each other. One patient had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease at the time of surgery; the other patient developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease 6.5 years later. This investigation highlights the difficulties in assessing possible transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

James Hall and the New York Survey

1987 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Aldrich ◽  
Alan Leviton
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
York State ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Paleozoic Rocks ◽  
History Survey

Hall's career with New York State was as stormy as his relations with many of his disciples. A few years after completing his education with Amos Eaton at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Hall served during 1836-1837 as Ebenezer Emmons' assistant on the New York State Natural History Survey, working on the iron ores of the Adirondacks. From 1837 to 1842, Hall was the survey geologist assigned the western counties of the state. He contributed equally with the other geologists to the creation of the New York System for Paleozoic rocks; it is important, in focusing on Hall, not to lose sight of what the others provided to its development. Hall's final district report, published in 1843, evidenced his ability and interest in paleontology. The state hired him to research and write up New York's fossils, an assignment given in 1837 to Timothy Conrad, who had not completed the report. Hall was to spend the next several decades on the task, issuing thirteen sumptuously illustrated volumes. Through 1859, Hall took the fossils in stratigraphic order, but by 1867 he had switched to a biological approach, in part because by that time he had reached the rich and complex Devonian fauna. State support for the Palaeontology was uneven; in 1850-55, Hall worked without salary on the books. He used the reports to discuss other important geological topics and to air his position on geological controversies, some of them centered on rocks outside of New York. His parade of laboratory and field assistants helped in various degrees, sometimes with stinting acknowledgment from Hall. His international reputation was based in large part on his work for New York State, and it remains a durable legacy to science.

scholarly journals A tale of three SARS-CoV-2 variants with independently acquired P681H mutations in New York State

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Lasek-Nesselquist ◽  
Janice Pata ◽  
Erasmus Schneider ◽  
Kirsten St. George
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
Viral Transmission ◽  
The Other ◽  
Spike Protein ◽  
York State ◽  
Fitness Advantage ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
The World ◽  
Repeated Evolution

AbstractSeveral SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern have independently acquired some of the same Spike protein mutations - notably E484K, N501Y, S477N, and K417T - associated with increased viral transmission and/or reduced sensitivity to neutralization by antibodies. Repeated evolution of the same mutations, particularly in variants that are now rapidly spreading in various regions of the world, suggests a fitness advantage. Mutations at position P681 in Spike – possibly affecting viral transmission - have also evolved multiple times, including in two variants of concern. Here, we describe three variants circulating in New York State that have independently acquired a P681H mutation and the different trajectories they have taken. While one variant rose to high prevalence since later summer 2020 it appears to be in decline. The other two variants were more recently detected in New York and harbor additional Spike mutations that might be cause for continued monitoring. The latter two P681H variants have shown moderate increases in prevalence but ultimately all might be subject to the same fate as more competitive variants come to dominate the scene.

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