Editorial policy

How an article gets written, what has to be true before it publishes, and what we do when a source turns out to be wrong.

Clinical review

Articles on this site are not reviewed by a licensed physician. Each one carries a notice that says so. Verify against current guidelines and product labeling before any clinical decision.

Sponsorship

A sponsored article, if one is published, names its sponsor above the text. The text stays at class level: generic drug names and mechanism classes.

How a claim earns its place

1. One fact, one source, one sentence — a dose, a threshold, an endpoint or a guideline position is written as a single claim with the source named in the sentence.
2. Each figure and guideline position carries a numbered marker to a reference we retrieved, with the retrieval date recorded.
3. Content stays at the level the source supports.
4. Each claim is checked against its cited source before an article publishes.

Sources we use

• Peer-reviewed primary literature and systematic reviews, cited with PMID or DOI.
• Specialty-society and national guidelines, cited by edition — a superseded edition is flagged and left out rather than quietly quoted.
• Regulatory and appropriateness-criteria documents where they are the authoritative statement.

Corrections

If a claim is wrong, or a guideline moves, the article is corrected and re-checked against its sources. We would rather withdraw an article than leave a superseded threshold on a page a clinician might act on.

AI in the workflow

Drafting and source retrieval are machine-assisted. Every page carries an AI-generation notice.