User talk:Tutu0819

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Welcome to Wikipedia from WikiProject Medicine (also known as WPMED). We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of medical articles here on Wikipedia. One of our members has noticed that you are interested in editing medical articles; it's great to have a new interested editor on board. In your wiki-voyages, a few things that may be relevant to editing Wikipedia articles are:


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 * Sourcing of medical and health-related content on Wikipedia is guided by our medical sourcing guidelines, commonly referred to as MEDRS. These guidelines typically require recent secondary sources to support information; their application is further explained here. Primary sources (case studies, case reports, research studies) are rarely used, especially if the primary sources are produced by the organisation or individual who is promoting a claim.
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– Þjarkur (talk) 13:09, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Reliable medical sources
Hey there. The National Institute of Health does not publish these papers, it only hosts the PubMed search engine, which contains all kinds of papers. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources, it's very easy or even automatic to add full citations if you're citing a journal or a webpage, you just need the DOI or the URL.

I'd also recommend looking over WP:MEDRS, we try not to cite primary research.

If you ever have any questions you can ask on my talk page :) – Þjarkur (talk) 13:09, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Reviews
Hey there. We try not to refer to primary sources, per WP:MEDRS:. The best sources are review articles which sum um what others have said. Writing about small studies can be very misleading, for example, even though there do exist small studies "proving" the effectiveness of acupuncture, review articles find no efficacy.

It's also good to summarize studies in the form of "X was found to be effective at minimizing Y" instead of details about how the studies were set up, here it also helps to cite secondary sources since they are summarizing.

You also can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources, it's easy to automatically add a full citation to a journal if you have the DOI.

Thanks :)

– Þjarkur (talk) 11:30, 16 April 2019 (UTC)