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