Quality Standards

Introduction

Physiopedia aims to be a clinical reference for student and qualified physiotherapists. The Physiopedia quality standards have been developed on this basis and focus on providing confidence that content meets that quality standards expected of a professional resource.

These quality standards are best practices for content creation, layout and formatting of Physiopedia pages. Editors should attempt to follow these guidelines, though they are best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply.

Content Guidelines

Content on Physiopedia pages should comply with these guidelines:

1. Articles are evidence based summaries of a topic and should be written in a clear and concise manner.
2. For large topics consider splitting the topic into several linked shorter pages.
3. Relevance to physiotherapy practice should always be included so that learning can easily be applied to clinical situations.
4. All content should be written in the English language.
5. All content should be up to date, evidence based and include references where appropriate (see Referencing Guide).
6. Internationally agreed professional scope of practice should be respected at all time.
7. Copyright policy (Terms and Conditions Section 9) should be followed at all times.
8. Always respect the Physiopedia Community Culture.

Page Formatting

The general layout for every page should include certain common elements as shown in the grey box below:

1. Editor credits (added in the source code) at the top of the page are essential. The original editor is the first person to contribute significant content to the page and this person can be identified by looking at the History tab.
2. The main content for the page is divided into subheadings and includes links, images, videos and bulleted and numbered lists where appropriate.
3. Resources and references are added at the end of the page.
4. It is also important to categorise the page, see the Adding Categories tutorial.

Copy this code and add it to the Source code at the top of a page, repalcing "Username" with the name of the original editor, to add the page Editors:

<div class="editorbox">Original Editor- [[User:Username|Username]]  Top Contributors - {{Special:Contributors/{{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</div>

Heading

The page content should be divided up by appropriate sub-headings as demonstrated on this page and in the source code below. To format the headings click on the 'Paragraph' link in the editing toolbar. Please try not to use more than 3 sub-headings. See formatting help

Sub-heading 1

Bulleted lists should be added by clicking on the 'lists' icon in the editing toolbar or can be added directly to the source code. See formatting help:

• xxx
• xx
• x

Sub-heading 2

Numbered lists should be added by clicking on the 'lists' icon in the editing toolbar or can be added directly to the source code. See formatting help:

1. xxx
2. xx
3. x

Resources

Resources are useful links that will provide good quality further reading and information such as clinical guidelines, evidence based toolkits etc. Add them as a bulleted list in this section.

References

References should be added in Vancouver style by clicking on the 'chain link' icon in the editing toolbar. See the Adding References tutorial