Accuracy and completeness of drug information in Wikipedia: A comparison with standard textbooks of pharmacology

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Kräenbring, Jona ^a   Penza, Tika Monzon ^a   Gutmann, Joanna ^a   Muehlich, Susanne ^b   Zolk, Oliver ^c   Wojnowski, Leszek ^d   Maas, Renke ^e   Engelhardt, Stefan ^a   Sarikas, Antonio ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CURRICULUM; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG MECHANISM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHARMACOKINETICS; PUBLICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; READING; REFERENCE DATABASE; WIKIPEDIA; BOOK; CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; EDUCATION; GERMANY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DRUG INFORMATION SERVICES; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; PHARMACOLOGY, CLINICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEXTBOOKS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84907587212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106930     Document Type: Article

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