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ConferencesAttended Medicine 2.0'14 Summit & World Congress (Maui, Hawaii, USA) Accepted AbstractsMedicine 2.0'14 Summit & World Congress (Maui, Hawaii, USA)Quality of References Supporting Urologic Articles on Wikipedia Background: Wikipedia is an easily available and commonly used source of medical information for patients and practitioners. Its editing guidelines state that information added to the site should be accompanied by in-line citations to reliable (preferably secondary) sources to meet the website’s standards for verifiability. We hypothesized that a large fraction of these citations would be to popular media and to scientific works of relatively low academic impact. Objective: To characteri... Can Wikipedia Page-View Volumes Be Utilized to Predict Cancer Incidence in the United States? Introduction: Recent data suggest that patients look online for information about cancer at least as often, and maybe even more often, than they consult with a physician. Wikipedia has become the number one source of online health information in the United States and Great Britain. Despite being a primary source of health information, relatively little is understood about how often Wikipedia is used for genitourinary cancers and if there is a correlation between Wikipedia page views and ca... Published WithThis user's work may be related toPrivacy settings prevent us from displaying this information. |
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