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Evolution of Wikipedia’s medical content: past, present and future

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  • Thomas Shafee Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, Melbourne, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gwinyai Masukume Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College Cork, The Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research, Cork, Ireland Gravida: National Centre for Growth and Development, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of the Witwatersrand, School of Public Health, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lisa Kipersztok Department of Family Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Diptanshu Das Department of Paediatric Neurology, Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy Department of Paediatrics, Kothari Medical Centre and Research Institute, Kolkata, India Department of Pediatrics, ICARE Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Haldia, India Working Group, Open Access India, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mikael Häggström Department of Radiology, NU Hospital Group, Trollhättan, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • James Heilman Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Thomas Shafee, Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia; thomas.shafee{at}gmail.com, T.Shafee{at}latrobe.edu.au
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Shafee T, Masukume G, Kipersztok L, et al
Evolution of Wikipedia’s medical content: past, present and future
J Epidemiol Community Health 2017;71:1122-1129.

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  • Received June 2, 2017
  • Revised July 28, 2017
  • Accepted August 3, 2017
  • First published August 28, 2017.
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October 17, 2017

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