David Gerard schreef:
http://in.reuters.com/article/health/idINTRE4AN7BO20081124
"NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Consumers who rely on the user-edited Web
resource Wikipedia for information on medications are putting
themselves at risk of potentially harmful drug interactions and
adverse effects, new research shows.
The original abstract is available at
http://www.theannals.com/cgi/content/abstract/aph.1L474v1 . It's not all
bad news!
Some more details: "Wikipedia performed poorly regarding information on
dosing, with a score of 0% versus the MDR score of 90.0%." I believe
this is because of an explicit Wikipedia policy to discourage dosage
information, to prevent self-medication.
"No factual errors were found in Wikipedia, whereas 4 answers in
Medscape conflicted with the answer key" (!!!)
"current entries were superior to those 90 days prior (p = 0.024)."
First scientific proof that quality still is improving?
Eugene