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. 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.


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