Publications by authors named "Denise Wheeler"
Objectives: To assess feasibility of calculating clinical performance measures for contraceptive care for National Quality Forum submission: the percentage of women aged 15-44 years provided the following: (1) a most or moderately effective contraceptive method (MME) and (2) a long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) method.
Methods: We used 2013 Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) Title X and Iowa Medicaid data. We stratified Title X data by age and Medicaid data by age and benefit type (family planning waiver (FPW) vs.
Objective: To analyze predictors of conviction and dismissal of individuals charged with DWI, and predictors of the sentences of those who are convicted.
Methods: Data come from the Citation Tracking System of the State of New Mexico's Motor Vehicle Division and includes information on all individuals who were arrested for DWI in San Juan County between August 1994 and December 2000. Independent variables were: age, gender, race/ethnicity, waiver of right to an attorney, court of arraignment, year of arrest, BAC, and number of prior DWI arrests.
Average annual conviction rates (1990-2000) of people arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in each of New Mexico's 33 counties are described. Conviction rates vary from 58 to 95%. Rates are correlated with political conservatism, being higher where a higher proportion of voters voted for the republican presidential candidates, and with measures of crowding in the courts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The probability of re-arrest for driving while intoxicated (DWI) is compared for four different groups of individuals classified by whether the individual was convicted and, if so, the type of sentence received.
Method: Subsequent re-arrests for DWI were examined for all individuals whose index arrest for DWI had occurred between 1994 and 2001 in a county in New Mexico. The groups included (1) those convicted as a result of the index arrest and sentenced to a 28-day jail/treatment program (N (#)=(#) 2,703); (2) all those not convicted as a result of the index arrest (N = 709); (3) those who were convicted but not sentenced to jail (N = 1,047); and (4) those convicted and sentenced to jail (N = 1,290).
Background: In San Juan County, New Mexico, a 28-day jail/treatment program for first-time driving-while-intoxicated (DWI) offenders was established in 1994 to reduce both DWI recidivism and alcohol-related crashes. This paper assesses the impact of the program on both outcomes.
Methods: The data are composed of driving records of all people arrested for DWI in San Juan County from August 1994 through December 2001.
This study investigates the effectiveness of a customized Victim Impact Panel (VIP) on reducing 'driving while impaired' recidivism, alcohol consumption and drinking and driving behavior. The study was conducted at a 28-day Detention/Treatment Program in a largely rural county in northwestern New Mexico. Study participants were randomly assigned to attend or not attend a VIP while participating in the program for court-defined first-time driving while intoxicated (DWI) offenders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This study was undertaken to assess a 28-day detention and treatment program's effect, in a multiethnic county with high rates of alcohol-related arrests and crashes, on first-time offenders sentenced for driving while impaired (DWI).
Methods: We used comparison of baseline characteristics, survival curves of subsequent arrest, and Cox proportional hazards regression to examine probability of rearrest of those sentenced and those not sentenced to the program.
Results: Probability of not being rearrested was significantly higher for the treatment group after adjustment for covariates.