Medical therapy template
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Charmaine Patel, M.D. [2]
Introduction to the Medical Therapy Page
- The page name should be "(Disease name) medical therapy", with only the first letter of the title capitalized.
- Goal: To provide a comprehensive description of the main medical therapies used in the treatment of the disease you are describing.
- As with all microchapter pages liking to the main page, at the top of the edit box put {{CMG}}, your name template, and the microchapter navigation template you created at the beginning.
- Remember to create links within Wikidoc by placing [[square brackets]] around key words which you want to link to other pages. Make sure you makes your links as specific as possible. For example if a sentence contained the phrase anterior spinal artery syndrome, the link should be to anterior spinal artery syndrome not anterior or artery or syndrome. For more information on how to create links click here.
- Remember to follow the same format and capitalization of letters as outlined in the template below.
- You should include the name of the disease in the first sentence of every subsection.
Overview
- The overview section should include the disease name in the first sentence.
- The goal is to summarize the medical therapies used in the treating the disease in few sentences.
- A template sentence is as follows: "Medical therapies for (disease name) include ___".
- To see an example of an overview section on a medical therapy page, click here.
Medical Therapy
- Describe the key medical therapies used the treat the disease, and their main mode of action.
- You may want to include sub-sections for each therapy used.
- To search for guidelines, go to the National Guideline Clearinghouse (http://www.guidelines.gov/).
- For an example of the medical therapy segment in a medical therapy page, click here.
References
- References should be cited for the material that you have put on your page. Type in {{reflist|2}}.This will generate your references in small font, in two columns, with links to the original article and abstract.
- For information on how to add references into your page, click here.