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Hospital Practice

journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 29, 2023
Entity authorityQ5908551 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hospital Practice is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal covering hospital medicine. It is published by Informa Healthcare and was established in 1966. The journal is indexed in Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed.

Editorial summary

“Hospital Practice” enters the record as journal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hospital, Practice and journal can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1966-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hospital, Practice and journal.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Hospital Practice” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hospital, Practice and journal provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 29, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q5908551. 5 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1966.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

Best used for
  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
Verify next

The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Hospital Practice”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Hospital Practice primary sources, Hospital Practice archive and Hospital research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Hospital Practice”?
  2. What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
  3. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Hospital Practice” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.