Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Priority maintenance
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Rationale: why prioritise certain medical articles?
[edit]Medical articles that contain material on screening are a priority to keep as accurate and as up-to-date as possible. The reason being that people will look up this sort of information before they decide to see a doctor, and hence no doctor has had a chance to talk to and inform them about treatment.
Over-the-counter medications pose a similar problem in that these can be bought at a chemist/drugstore and used with no involvement of health staff.
A person inquiring about prescription-only medications or surgical procedures must (by default) see a medical practitioner, hence that doctor will discuss that with the patient.
Articles with population-based screening
[edit]Autism - needs rechecking as of February 2018
Breast cancer - screening section out of date (refs from 2011-12)
Cardiovascular disease - needs rechecking as of February 2018
Cervical screening
Coeliac disease -
needs rechecking as of February 2018updated March 2018. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:40, 6 March 2018 (UTC)Colorectal cancer - screening section out of date (refs from 2010-14)
Diabetes mellitus type 2 - needs rechecking as of February 2018
Hepatitis C - needs rechecking as of February 2018
Hypercholesterolemia
Hypertension
Lead poisoning - needs rechecking as of February 2018
Lung cancer - screening section out of date (refs from 2013-14)
Obesity - needs rechecking as of February 2018
Pap test screening section out of date (refs from 2003 (!))
- Well then, it really shouldn't be a B class article. Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉
Pancreatic cancer -
needs rechecking as of February 2018refs predominantly from 2014. Google search as of March 2018 reveals no major updates. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:48, 5 March 2018 (UTC)Prostate cancer - has stalled, also has daughter article Prostate cancer screening.
Thyroid cancer
Vaccination schedule/Immunizations
Over-the-counter medications
[edit]- Started some cleanup but more is needed. There are a lot of old references (some from the 1980s yikes!). TylerDurden8823 (talk) 13:58, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
Paracetamol - unchecked
- one ref from 2018, one ref from 2017 -Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉