MedicDecode explains medical documents, medicines and medical words in plain language. It explains; it never diagnoses, never tells you what dose to take, and never says whether a result is good or bad for you. This page sets out how the pages are written and checked, so you can judge how far to rely on them.
Where the facts come from
- Medicine pages are written only from the official drug label published by the US Food and Drug Administration on DailyMed. Each page names the label it used, the date that label was last updated, and links to the full label. Where the NHS has a page for the same medicine, we link to it as a second source.
- Medical word pages explain well-established, textbook meanings of words as they appear on reports, labels and bills. They give no normal-range numbers (your report prints its own), no doses and no statistics.
- Document explanations use only what is printed on your own document, including the reference ranges your laboratory printed.
How pages are written
Pages are drafted with an AI language model working to fixed written rules: plain English at about an 8th-grade reading level, facts only from the sources above, every warning on a label kept and never softened, and urgent signs stated plainly. We say this openly because AI can make mistakes, which is why every page then goes through the checks below.
Checks every page passes before it is published
- No personal doses, no promises of a cure or of safety, and no "this means you have" statements.
- Complete: what it is, where you see it, an example, common misunderstandings and questions to ask.
- Original: a page is held back if too much of its wording repeats other pages.
- New pages are released in small batches, and only while search engines keep accepting the earlier ones.
- Live pages are re-checked against these rules and rebuilt if they fall short.
Medical review
Clinician review is being set up. Until a page shows "Medically reviewed by" with a named reviewer, it has passed the checks above but has not been reviewed by a clinician.
Independence
MedicDecode is independent. It does not sell medicines or tests, and no company pays for or influences what a page says. Any advertising is kept separate from the content and never appears on the page where you add your document.
Corrections
If you find a mistake, please tell us through the contact page. We check every report, fix confirmed errors promptly and update the page.
See also: About MedicDecode · How we handle your documents.