Current status
Our clinical review programme is being established, and no article on this site currently claims to have been medically reviewed. We would rather tell you that plainly than display a review badge that does not mean anything.
All content is researched and written against our editorial policy, with clinical claims traced to guidelines, regulator publications and peer-reviewed research, each of which is cited and linked at the bottom of the relevant page. You can check every source yourself.
When licensed clinicians join the review board, they will be named here with their credentials, specialty and state licence, alongside a link you can use to verify them independently — and only then will individual pages begin carrying a review date.
If you are a licensed clinician interested in reviewing content for us, please write to editorial@edtreatmentguides.com.
What clinical review involves
A medical review is not a proofread and it is not a signature on a finished article. Reviewers are asked to check five things:
- Clinical accuracy. Is every factual claim correct, and correctly attributed?
- Currency. Does the content reflect present clinical guidelines and current regulatory status?
- Risk framing. Are contraindications, interactions and adverse effects given proportionate weight — neither buried nor exaggerated?
- Safety of omission. Is anything missing that a reader would need in order to act safely?
- Absence of harmful framing. Could any part of this page lead a reader to delay necessary care or self-treat inappropriately?
Reviewers can require changes, and can decline to sign off. A page that does not pass review does not publish with a review date.
Our standards for reviewers
- Currently licensed and in good standing in at least one US state.
- Relevant clinical background — urology, primary care, endocrinology, cardiology, sexual medicine or mental health, depending on the content.
- Named publicly, with credentials that can be independently verified.
- Paid a flat professional fee for their time. Reviewers are never compensated based on traffic, conversions or revenue.
- Required to disclose any financial relationship with a company mentioned in the content they review, and recused where a conflict exists.
What a review date does not mean
Even where a page has been reviewed by a clinician, it remains general health information. It does not become medical advice, it does not take account of your circumstances, and it does not create a clinician–patient relationship — with the reviewer or with us. See our medical disclaimer.
A review reflects the state of evidence on the date shown. It is not a permanent guarantee of accuracy.