Portal:Medical Devices: Difference between revisions

This compendium of emerging medical devices is sortable on topic (e.g. Malaria Medical Devices and HIV/AIDS Medical Devices), classification (i.e. Preventative, Diagnosis or Treatment), scope (i.e. Prototype, Clinical trial, Commercialized) and location (by continent). This compendium was originally compiled by the University of Michigan's Center for Global Health. More background is available at Global Health Compendium.

Devices can be added at using Form:Medical Device.

The following table shows three devices per medical topic. You can also drill down by topic, classification, scope and/or location here.

Usage

• Use Form:Medical Device to add new Medical Devices.
  • Which populates the free text input with MediaWiki:Medical Device form preload.
• They use Template:Medical Device.
  • What adds all new Devices to Category:Medical Devices. All pages in Category:Medical Devices are edited with the form.
• Devices have the following Properties,
  • Property:Medical Device Topic
  • Property:Medical Device Classification
  • Property:Medical Device Scope
  • Property:Medical Device Location
• Special:Ask can be used to semantically search Medical Devices and build Queries such as,
  • Malaria Medical Devices
• Use http://www.appropedia.org/Special:BrowseData/Medical_Devices?_single to browse using multiple aspects.