Portal:Medical Devices

The Global Health Medical Device Compendium is an inventory of medical devices designed for use and/or implemented within resource-limited settings.

The compendium is sortable by health topic (e.g., Malaria and HIV/AIDS), classification (i.e., Preventative, Diagnosis or Treatment), scope (i.e., Prototype, Clinical trial, Commercialized) and location (by continent). New devices can be added using Form:Medical Device.

The following table shows three devices per medical topic. You can also {{#drilldownlink:category=Medical_Devices|single|link text=drill down by topic, classification, scope and/or location}}.

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.

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