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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ6107590 ↗
Source-derived summary

JAAPA: Journal of the American Academy of Physician Associates is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Wolters Kluwer on behalf of the American Academy of Physician Associates. Its mission is to support the ongoing education and advancement of physician assistants by publishing current information and research on clinical, health policy, and professional issues. The journal is abstracted and indexed by MEDLINE/PubMed.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 61-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around JAAPA and journal.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6107590. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. 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.

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  2. Expand the search: follow JAAPA primary sources, JAAPA archive and JAAPA 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “JAAPA” 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.