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- Classification: If relevant. May also be placed as a subheading of diagnosis
- Signs and symptoms or Characteristics
- Causes: Includes Risk factors, triggers, Genetics or genome, Virology (e.g., structure/morphology and replication).
- Mechanism: For information about pathogenesis and pathophysiology.
- Diagnosis: Includes characteristic biopsy findings and differential diagnosis.
- Prevention or Screening (if the section only discusses secondary prevention it should follow the treatment section)
- Treatment: This might include any type of currently used treatment, such as diet, exercise, medication, palliative care, physical therapy, psychotherapy, self care, surgery, watchful waiting, and many other possibilities. Consider discussing treatments in a plausible order in which they might be tried, or discussing the most common treatments first. Avoid experimental/speculative treatments and preventive measures (e.g., prophylactic vaccines or infection-avoidance techniques). As per the policy of WP:NOTHOW, Wikipedia articles should not be written in a "how-to" style, but this does not prevent adding official guidelines of treatments or managements if these can be presented in an objective manner and with medically reliable sources.
- Outcomes or Prognosis. May also be labeled "Possible outcomes" or "Outlook".
- Epidemiology: factors such as incidence, prevalence, age distribution, and sex ratio.
- History: Early discoveries, historical figures, and outdated treatments (not patient history)
- Society and culture: This might include social perceptions, cultural history, stigma, economics, religious aspects, awareness, legal issues, notable cases
- Research directions: Include only if addressed by significant sources. See Trivia, and avoid useless statements like "More research is needed". Wikipedia is not a directory of clinical trials or researchers.
- Special populations, such as Geriatrics or Pregnancy or Children
- Other animals