User:Doc James/RS

This is a step-by-step process for finding reliable sources for medical content that satisfy WP:MEDRS. There are three main types of sources that are deemed high quality: 1) general of systematic reviews by reputable medical journals 2) recognized standard medical textbooks 3) position statements by nationally or internationally recognized expert bodies

Journal articles

1. Check that it is pubmed indexed
2. Check that it is a "review article". This is typically listed under "publication type"
3. Check that it is from a well respect journal. These include:

• American Family Physician
• Annals of Internal Medicine
• BMJ
• Circulation
• Cochrane Collaboration
• JAMA
• NEJM
• Nature
• Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Pediatrics
• PLOS Medicine
• Science

Medical textbooks

1. Is this a major medical textbook such as would be used during medical school?
2. Has it been recently published
3. Some well respected textbooks include:

• Harrison's Textbook of Internal Medicine
• Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine

Postion statements

Position statements and publications by the following organizations are deemed to be of high quality:

• American Heart Association
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention
• Food and Drug Admininstration
• ILCOR
• World Health Organizations
• United Nations

For alternative medicine high quality sources can be harder to find as content is often not deemed notable

• Quackwatch