Editorial policy
Every clinical page should show who wrote it, what evidence was checked, what remains uncertain, whether clinical review is complete, and when the page was last reviewed.
A DOI check confirms bibliographic metadata. It does not prove that a source supports a medical claim, and it does not replace clinical review.
Publication status
Status labels describe completed work, not intended future work.
Written or substantially revised, but not yet evidence-checked. Public drafts are excluded from search indexing.
Material claims have been checked against a dated source set. This is not the same as documented clinical review.
A suitably qualified reviewer has completed the defined review, with consent to display their role and review date.
A locked reference edition has undergone medical and native-language review before indexing.
Core rules
Guidelines, systematic reviews, and primary studies are distinguished. Publication type and uncertainty are not flattened into recommendation language. Bibliographic verification does not by itself prove that a source supports a claim.
No reviewer, editor, affiliation, credential, or institutional endorsement is displayed without documentary support. Review-pending content remains visibly labelled and excluded from search indexing.
English is the reference edition. A translation becomes indexable only after medical review and native-language review against a recorded reference version.
Material corrections should record the affected page, prior wording, revised wording, supporting source, date, and reason. Quietly changing a consequential medical statement is not sufficient.
Minimum record