Portal:Medical Devices: Difference between revisions

Purpose

This emerging medical device compendium is currently in progress and set to be announced by the end of January 2012.

Background

This compendium was originally compiled by the University of Michigan's Center for Global Health.

Devices

The following table has the limit set to two for each type of device. For a final portal we will probably want somewhere between three and five devices in a table. You can also drill down by topic, classification, scope and location here.

Usage

• Use Form:Medical Device to add new Medical Devices.
  • Which populates the free text input with MediaWiki:Medical Device form preload.
    • Which adds all new Devices to Category:Global Health Compendium.
• 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.