User:JuliaMinisi/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Labor Induction. Link: Labor induction

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I decided to analyze this article because I was trying to find a topic that related to the class and my personal interests regarding after college. I also noticed this article was a class S, meaning there is a lot of room for improvement. It discusses a few pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical methods to induce labor and I plan on going into pharmaceutical research post-college, leading this, personally, to be an informative topic. My preliminary impression of this article was that it includes a decent broad understanding to why and how labor is induced, but it does not explicitly describe in detail the mechanism's to begin this process.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

As stated earlier, the article provided a decent understanding to a broad outlook on why labor is induced to stimulate childbirth. The non-pharmaceutical/physical procedures performed to induce labor are membrane sweep, artificial rupture of the membranes, extra-amniotic saline infusion, and cook medical double balloon. Out of these three options, only membrane sweep is described in sufficient detail. The other choices do not cover the procedural steps or the reasoning behind why which procedure will be most beneficial towards the patient. For the pharmaceutical options, the pathways/mechanisms are not described at all, meaning there is no discussion to how these medications show functionality. Most people researching this topic need to fully trust and understand the processes of each mode of action to beginning their childbirth, and this article does not provide that reassurance. It does represent a decent overview on when it is appropriate to induce labor but it discusses a recent study performed that does not seem adequate for Wikipedia's credible source guidelines. Towards the end of the article, it criticizes the induction process by stating the negative side-effects that could occur. It explains that medications might be prescribe post-procedure due to pain but again, does not explain why this pain occurs and what the medication is precisely acting on. As for images/diagrams, there should be added statistics or figures backing up the information on study performed. It would be extremely helpful to the audience to also show the pathways of each medication or mechanism of each process. The language of this discussion is well-written for the audience, but it did not go into enough detail overall. As for sourcing and organization, these are decent. Most of the sources are 2010 and on and the topics of each paragraph are organized well. Since Wikipedia gave this article and overall status of class S, I knew there would be plenty of room for improvement. The main issue of this article is the lack of detail regarding the functionality of the medicinal route performed in order to stimulate childbirth.