[1][2][3][4] It hosted an international community of doctors and existed for the purpose of facilitating critical discussion and post-publication peer review of all medical literature indexed by the National Library of Medicine in PubMed.
[13] Members utilized this resource to suggest future research,[14][15] and to identify bias or limitations to published work.
[16][17] Educators utilized this resource to help stimulate and document critical discussion of assigned journal articles.
[18] Authors utilized this resource to answer questions about and provide supplement to their published work.
Approximately 7,000 doctors, health care professionals, researchers, residency training programs, and students from all over the world participate.