Prescribing Patterns for Long-Acting Inhaled Bronchodilators Among Rural Adults With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is prevalent in rural areas of the USA. Long-acting inhaled bronchodilators (LABDs) are a key tool in COPD management and are underutilized. The purpose of this study was to determine whether rates of prescriptions for LABD differed by payer among patients with COPD in a rural healthcare network.

Loneliness Among Rural Self-Management Education Program Enrollees During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Purpose: Pandemic-related isolation may exacerbate loneliness among rural adults; we sought to characterize loneliness and associated factors among rural adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design: Cross-sectional observational study.

Setting: Remotely delivered self-management education (SME) workshops, rural upstate New York, May-December 2020.

Impact of New York prescription drug monitoring program, I-STOP, on statewide overdose morbidity.

Background: Prescription Drug Monitoring programs (PDMPs) are intended to reduce opioid prescribing and aberrant drug-related behavior thereby reducing morbidity and mortality due to prescription opioid overdose. Expansion of the New York (NY) State's PDMP in 2013 included the institution of the I-STOP law that mandated clinicians to consult the statewide PDMP database to review the patient's prescription history prior to prescribing opioids.

Methods: Trends in prescription opioid distribution, prescribing, and prescription opioid and heroin overdose morbidity in NY were analyzed using time series.

Opening School-Based Health Centers in a Rural Setting: Effects on Emergency Department Use.

Background: Previous studies of urban school-based health centers (SBHCs) have shown that SBHCs decrease emergency department (ED) utilization. This study seeks to evaluate the effect of SBHCs on ED utilization in a rural setting.

Methods: This retrospective, controlled, quasi-experimental study used an ED patient data set from the Bassett Healthcare Network in rural New York to compare ED visits between school-aged children from 12 SBHC schools before and after the SBHC opening.

Developing Surveillance Methodology for Agricultural and Logging Injury in New Hampshire Using Electronic Administrative Data Sets.

Objective: Agriculture and logging rank among industries with the highest rates of occupational fatality and injury. Establishing a nonfatal injury surveillance system is a top priority in the National Occupational Research Agenda. Sources of data such as patient care reports (PCRs) and hospitalization data have recently transitioned to electronic databases.

Estimation of agricultural and logging injury incidence in Maine using electronic administrative data sets.

Agriculture and forestry rank among industries with the highest rates of occupational fatality and injury. Establishing a nonfatal injury surveillance system is a top priority in the National Occupational Research Agenda. Recently, new sources of data such as Pre-Hospital Care Reports (PCRs) and hospitalization data have transitioned to electronic databases.

Electronic merger of large health care data sets: cautionary notes from a study of agricultural morbidity in New York State.

Agriculture ranks among industries with the highest rates of occupational injury and fatality. Administrative medical data sets have long been thought to have potential for occupational injury surveillance. This research explores the feasibility of establishing an agricultural injury surveillance system in New York State that combines data from existing electronic sources.