User:Doc James/RS

This is a step-by-step process for finding reliable sources for medical content that satisfy WP:MEDRS. There are three main types of sources that are deemed high quality: 1) general of systematic reviews by reputable medical journals 2) recognized standard medical textbooks 3) position statements by nationally or internationally recognized expert bodies

Journal articles

 * 1) Check that it is pubmed indexed
 * 2) Check that it is a "review article". This is typically listed under "publication type"
 * 3) Check that it is from a well respect journal. These include:
 * American Family Physician
 * Annals of Internal Medicine
 * BMJ
 * Circulation
 * Cochrane Collaboration
 * JAMA
 * NEJM
 * Nature
 * Obstetrics and Gynecology
 * Pediatrics
 * PLOS Medicine
 * Science

Medical textbooks

 * 1) Is this a major medical textbook such as would be used during medical school?
 * 2) Has it been recently published
 * 3) Some well respected textbooks include:
 * Harrison's Textbook of Internal Medicine
 * Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine

Postion statements
Position statements and publications by the following organizations are deemed to be of high quality:
 * American Heart Association
 * Center for Disease Control and Prevention
 * Food and Drug Admininstration
 * ILCOR
 * World Health Organizations
 * United Nations

For alternative medicine high quality sources can be harder to find as content is often not deemed notable
 * Quackwatch