Causes template

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Charmaine Patel, M.D. [2]

Introduction to the Causes Page

• The page name should be "(Disease name) causes", with only the first letter of the title capitalized.
• Goal: To provide a comprehensive list of all potential underlying causes of the condition. To categorize the causes both by organ system and alphabetically, so it is an easily searchable source for a medical professional.
• Remember causes are different from risk factors. For example, HIV causes AIDS, and the bacteria Bartonella henselae is the cause of cat scratch disease. In contrast, elevated cholesterol is termed a risk factor, but is not the cause of coronary heart disease, childhood obesity is a risk factor, but not the cause of diabetes.
• Search The Diseases Database (http://diseasesdatabase.com/content.asp) to assure that the list is complete.
• As with all microchapter pages liking to the main page, at the top of the edit box put {{CMG}}, your name template, and the microchapter navigation template you created at the beginning.
• Remember to create links within Wikidoc by placing [[square brackets]] around key words which you want to link to other pages. Make sure you makes your links as specific as possible. For example if a sentence contained the phrase anterior spinal artery syndrome, the link should be to anterior spinal artery syndrome not anterior or artery or syndrome. For more information on how to create links click here.
• Remember this is not the chapter to describe what the disease causes. What the disease causes would go under the natural history and complications chapter.
• Remember this is not the chapter where guidance is provided on how to distinguish the disorder from other disorders. That is the chapter on differentiating (disease name)from other diseases.
• Remember to follow the same format and capitalization of letters as outlined in the template below.
• You should put the name of the disease in the first sentence of every subsection.

Overview

• The overview section should include the disease name in the first sentence.
• The goal is to summarize the page several sentences, and the section can be the same as the causes segment on the overview page.
• To see an example, click here.

Common Causes of Disease

• This section is to outline the most common causes of the disease or condition you are describing.
• This can be done in list form, with the appropriate percentage listed next to the cause. Click here for a common causes section in the Pericarditis causes page.

Causes by Organ System

• To obtain the coding for the table seen below, click here. You need to copy the table content from the edit box, and paste it into the edit box.
• You can then list the causes by organ system. List the causes, separated by a comma under the appropriate category where it says "No underlying causes". Erase "No underlying causes" if you are listing causes in that category.
• For an example of the causes by organ system table in a causes microchapter, click here.

Cardiovascular	No underlying causes
Chemical / poisoning	No underlying causes
Dermatologic	No underlying causes
Drug Side Effect	No underlying causes
Ear Nose Throat	No underlying causes
Endocrine	No underlying causes
Environmental	No underlying causes
Gastroenterologic	No underlying causes
Genetic	No underlying causes
Hematologic	No underlying causes
Iatrogenic	No underlying causes
Infectious Disease	No underlying causes
Musculoskeletal / Ortho	No underlying causes
Neurologic	No underlying causes
Nutritional / Metabolic	No underlying causes
Obstetric/Gynecologic	No underlying causes
Oncologic	No underlying causes
Opthalmologic	No underlying causes
Overdose / Toxicity	No underlying causes
Psychiatric	No underlying causes
Pulmonary	No underlying causes
Renal / Electrolyte	No underlying causes
Rheum / Immune / Allergy	No underlying causes
Sexual	No underlying causes
Trauma	No underlying causes
Urologic	No underlying causes
Miscellaneous	No underlying causes

Causes in Alphabetical Order

• List the causes of the disease in alphabetical order. You may need to list across the page, as seen here

References

• References should be cited for the material that you have put on your page. Type in {{reflist|2}}.This will generate your references in small font, in two columns, with links to the original article and abstract.
• For information on how to add references into your page, click here