In the table below are the Patient Disposition Codes being collected by SPARCS with the status code mappings for the various Medicare and New York State grouper versions. *Use the map number to determine the disposition code mapping in the following table.
Sugar was only discovered by western Europeans as a result of the Crusades in the 11th Century AD. Crusaders returning home talked of this new spice and how pleasant it was. The first sugar was recorded in England in 1099. The subsequent centuries saw a major expansion of western European trade with the East, including the importation of sugar. It is recorded, for instance, that sugar was available in London at two shillings a pound in 1319 AD.
Sugar cane â native to Southeast Asia â first made its way to the New World with Christopher Columbus during his 1492 voyage to the Dominican Republic, where it grew well in the tropical environment.