A comprehensive appropriateness of prescribing questionnaire was validated by nominal consensus group.

Objective: To develop and validate a comprehensive Appropriateness of Prescribing Evaluation Questionnaire (APEQ) suitable for human and computer use.

Study Design And Setting: This study was part of an ongoing research program examining the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of computerized prescribing decision support for providers, patients, and drug policy. A nominal group consensus process involved physicians, both primary care physicians and specialists, pharmacists, drug plan managers, patients, patient advocates, and pharmaceutical industry.

E-health interventions as complex interventions: improving the quality of methods of assessment.

E-health interventions require rigorous evaluation, preferably within a randomized trial. Health technology assessment and complex intervention methodologies exist, but are often not used in health informatics research. We propose a framework of methodologic issues which should be considered for every e-health intervention.

Racial disparity in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in New York State: a 10-year longitudinal population-based study.

Objectives: We studied trends of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy by residential socioeconomic status (SES) and racial/ethnic subgroups in New York State over a 10-year period.

Methods: We merged New York State discharge data for 2.5 million women hospitalized with delivery from 1993 through 2002 with 2000 US Census data.