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A medical encyclopedia provides valuable health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information. [2] Works of encyclopedic scope aim to convey the important accumulated knowledge for their subject domain, such as an encyclopaedia of medicine.
This is a list of medical wikis, collaboratively-editable websites that focus on medical information. Many of the most popular medical wikis take the form of encyclopedias, with a separate article for each medical term. Some of these websites, such as WikiDoc and Radiopaedia, are editable by anyone, while others, such as Ganfyd, restrict ...
The Wikipedia online encyclopedia has, since the late 2000s, served as a popular source for health information for both laypersons and, in many cases, health care practitioners. Health-related articles on Wikipedia are popularly accessed as results from search engines, which frequently deliver links to Wikipedia articles. [1] .
Feb 18, 2020 · Wikipedia’s health content is the most frequently visited resource for health information on the internet. While the literature provides strong evidence for its high usage, a comprehensive literature review of Wikipedia’s role within the health context has not yet been reported. Objective.
- Denise A. Smith
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0228786
- 2020
- PLoS One. 2020; 15(2): e0228786.
Feb 19, 2015 · Our aim was to review medical wiki websites dedicated to clinical practices. Methods. We used Google in ten languages, PubMed, Embase, Lilacs, and Web of Science to identify websites. The review included wiki sites, accessible and operating, having a topic relevant for clinical medicine, targeting physicians or medical students.
- Alexandre Brulet, Guy Llorca, Laurent Letrilliart
- 10.2196/jmir.3574
- 2015
- J Med Internet Res. 2015 Feb; 17(2): e48.
Apr 8, 2014 · Regardless of the dubious quality of Wikipedia, it persists as a popular source of health information, even for doctors. As of January 2014 there were 26 000 articles in Wikipedia covering health topics including medical conditions, drugs, procedures, and diseases.
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Nov 4, 2008 · This paper evaluates the rate of occurrence of the English edition of Wikipedia, a large online collaborative encyclopedia, among the top results from leading general Internet search engines for health queries derived from three large online health information resources.
