User talk:Ttrannn 11/sandbox

Peer Review
Peer Review Ttran Group11 (talk) 20:52, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Education Foundation Course Assignment - Rough Draft 1
Originally, the article before this course assignment was broken down only by 1) lead section, 2) 'side effects', 3) 'products', and finally 4) 'references'. Thus, we felt there was potential to add significant value to this article, particularly for patients and students learning more about the drug.

Our main goal was to phrase the lead section so entacapone would be easy to understand with simple concepts. We placed tremendous emphasis on using lay language and hyperlinked phrases that were needed for context to understand more about entacapone, levodopa/carbidopa, and the treatment of Parkinson's disease. We reserved more technical information for newly created sections.

These newly created sections included headings 1) 'medical use', 2) 'adverse effects' (renamed from side effects), 3) 'mechanism of action', 4) 'pharmacokinetics', and finally 5) special populations. This covers: We believe these headings to be the most pertinent for the audience of this article.
 * what entacapone is being used for
 * what are its side effects
 * how the drug works in the body
 * what the body does to the drug
 * if special populations such as children/pregnant mothers can use this medication

From the original article, we removed the phrase 'Entacapone is a member of the class of drugs known as nitrocatechols'. This sentence had no supporting reference nor wikipedia page for nitrocatechols.

Finally, we edited the right-side panel of Clinical/Pharmacokinetic data with spell check (in addition to the complete article) and verified the numerical values listed for accuracy per entacapone package insert (last revision 2014, Novartis).

Future edits will expand on topics listed here in the Talk section, mechanism of action (picture would be nice), and supporting clinical trials for efficacy in Parkinson's disease.

Ttrannn 11 (talk) 13:30, 5 November 2015 (UTC)