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Heart failure
editI have removed your changes to heart failure as one does not use a primary research paper to refute the conclusions of a review. Please see WP:MEDRS.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:13, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
- This is the line in specific I was referring too:
Individual primary sources should not be cited or juxtaposed so as to "debunk" or contradict the conclusions of reliable secondary sources, unless the primary source itself directly makes such a claim (see Wikipedia:No original synthesis that advances a position). Controversies or areas of uncertainty in medicine should be illustrated with reliable secondary sources describing the varying viewpoints.
- Other concerns are that the studies are of small sample sizes.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:22, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
- Here for example is a paper which reaffirms previous conclusions PMID 19854331 so without a proper review what you have added is two small primary research studies which are presented to contradict a review. Find a review for this than feel free to readd. --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:31, 26 February 2010 (UTC)