“Medical research and social media: Can wikis be used as a publishing platform in medicine“?
Sally Murray, Dean Giustini, Tarek Loubani, Stephen Choi, Anita Palepu Open Medicine July 21, 2009. Vol. 3(3), pp.121-122
“This past month marked an exciting development at Open Medicine: the launch of the Open Medicine wiki. The first publication to be housed on the wiki is a scoping review of studies examining the use of asynchronous telehealth1 by Deshpande and colleagues. The interactive article allows users to log in and edit, delete or add content to the review and to look at changes other users have made to the document.
Why are we using wiki technology as a publishing platform? Wikis enable a network of users to edit documents collaboratively and on an ongoing basis. This may be particularly relevant to scoping and systematic reviews, which, depending on their area of focus, can quickly become outdated as new studies are published.2 A wiki — a potentially revolutionary tool for knowledge transfer — makes it possible to keep reviews as current and relevant as possible.”
Yvonne Chan
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