Mhollett

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:18, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

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When it comes to medical topics, I agree that you should rely in review articles. More broadly though, the idea is that you should rely on the best source possible.

It's important to think about what it is that you want to use this source to support. Are you looking to support the rate of diagnosis of dysphonia in the US? The fact that the rate of diagnosis is increasing? The fact that diagnosis increases with age? The correlation with things like acute laryngitis? Things like this might be appropriate to cite from this source, as long as you were clear that you are speaking about a specific subsection of the population (Americans with health insurance who actually go to the doctor) and that you could reasonably cite a source for these qualifiers (and that you weren't making these conclusions yourself. That's where using primary sources like this can be problematic - it's very difficult to convey appropriate levels of nuance. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:04, 29 October 2018 (UTC)