Medical disclaimer
Nothing on this site or in an Evidence Kit is medical advice, a diagnosis, or a treatment recommendation. Kits are research and communication materials produced for licensed clinicians. They are not clinical protocols or practice guidelines.
Clinicians using kit material remain solely responsible for their own clinical decisions, for the care they provide, and for everything they publish under their own name. Kit content must be evaluated against the individual patient in front of you.
Patient handouts and articles derived from our kits are general education. They cannot account for your own history, medications, or risk factors. Talk with your own clinician before making any decision about treatment, and do not delay seeking care because of something you read.
Kits reflect the published literature at the time of writing. Research moves, and kits are not updated as new evidence appears, so a kit may not reflect the most recent evidence at the moment you read it. Every kit links to its source so you can check it directly.
Our analyses include positions that mainstream consensus has not adopted. Those are clearly marked as interpretation rather than finding — see the five levels. Reasonable clinicians disagree with some of them.