User:JenOttawa/Cochrane-UK Assignment 1

1. Find your userpage and add a short paragraph introducing yourself and your interests on Wikipedia (can be anonymous)

2. Getting Started Editing Medical Content on Wikipedia: Practice in your sandbox

a. Find a Cochrane Review that interests you from the Cochrane Library

b. Search Wikipedia to see if it is already used as evidence (you can search with the PMID)

c. Find a Wikipedia article that you think this evidence is appropriate for

d. Re-word the conclusions of the Cochrane review

e. “Ping” Jenny to come and see your sandbox

f. Read Medical Editing “Cheat Sheet” and try to add your citation using the PMID citation tool

Demonstration of the assignment and template for pasting into your sandbox:

Potential Wikipedia Target Article: Pneumonia

Monthly page views of article: 261,214 average views/month

Cochrane Review Name: Heat and moisture exchangers versus heated humidifiers for mechanically ventilated adults and children.

Cochrane Review (PMID): PMID 28905374

Conclusions (paraphrased in your own words, in lay language): No differences have been found when comparing heat and moisture exchangers to heated humidifiers for preventing pneumonia in adults and children who are on ventilators.

Hi {{Ping|JenOttawa}} can you please review my proposed edit?

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