Medical disclaimer · v1.2 · Effective April 2026
Read this before you use a brief.
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Not medical advice.
Everything in a brief (summary text, evidence level, relevance score, action items) is informational and educational. Nothing in rounds. constitutes a recommendation for any treatment, drug, dose, or protocol for any individual patient.
What a summary can get wrong.
Automated summaries are built from published source papers. Two validators gate every summary before publication, but a brief can still:
- contain a factual error, omission, or misreading of the source
- oversimplify a nuanced finding or miss an important caveat
- present preliminary or single-trial results without adequate qualification
- misclassify evidence level or clinical relevance
Always verify against the source.
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