User talk:PatrickReichhold/Winters' formula

Peer Review
Hello @PatrickReichhold

The sections you have added (History, Physiology, and Clinical Use) are great additions to this article to give the topic more depth. I think the order they are in makes sense as well. Overall, your written contributions thus far offer a framework that will allow you to expand on the topic of Winters' formula. One aspect I find challenging is taking a topic and making it readable for a larger audience. I think this topic is a challenging one and it will take some more edits to get the right readability. I will provide feedback formatted by the sections you have added and worked on.

History

Could add a sentence about who Dr. Winter's is. Addressing the original research, which you did, is important to the history. I noticed you have cited the original paper. If possible, you could add a more recent paper that is a review of the topic of metabolic acidosis. A few of your sentences could be broken up and/or simplified for readers. For example, the following sentence could be simplified/split into two sentences.

"He measured the blood pH, plasma PCO2, blood base excess, and plasma bicarbonate concentrations, but focused on the relationship between plasma PCO2 and plasma bicarbonate."

Physiology

It is nice that you start this section out by stating that there are three processes. I think starting out with a general overall explanation is a good way to lead into the topic. You could create a hyperlink for respiratory compensation in this section. That would allow readers to get more information sooner, I noticed you did use the link elsewhere in the article. Maybe it would also be worthwhile to define respiratory compensation too even though it is it's own topic.

Clinical Use

I noticed that there were no sources cited for this section, this could be a useful place to have information that came from a textbook or review article. Additionally, I saw that part of this section is the same from the articles lead section. I am not sure if this is intentional or if it just reflects the process of reorganizing and working on the article. You could probably use this section to talk about when a physician would use this formula and conditions that would have metabolic acidosis with and without compensation.

I hope the feedback I provided is useful. Feel free to respond with any questions or comments.

Functional Frog (talk) 22:03, 10 December 2023 (UTC)