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. Large topics should be split into several linked shorter pages.
2. Relevance to physiotherapy practice should always be included so that learning can easily be applied to clinical situations.
3. All content should be written in the English language.
4. All content should be up to date, evidence based and referenced where appropriate (see Referencing Guide).
5. Internationally agreed professional scope of practice should be respected at all time.
6. Copyright policy (Terms and Conditions Section 9) should be followed at all times. Plagiarism is not tolerated.
7. 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 at the top of the page are essential. See Adding Editors tutorial.
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 always added at the end of the page. See Adding References tutorial.
4. It is also important to categorise the page. See the Adding Categories tutorial.

Main Content

The page content should be divided up by appropriate sub-headings.

Sub-heading 1

• Bulleted lists can be added
• x

Sub-heading 2

1. Numbered lists can be added
2. x

Resources

Resources are useful links that will provide good quality further reading and information such as clinical guidelines, evidence based toolkits etc. This shouldn't be a list of journal articles, it is better that these are cited in the page content.

References

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