Editorial policy and medical review
Last updated: 29 September 2026
This page explains how Clinicato articles and medical tools are written, where the information comes from, who reviews it before it is published, and how it is corrected and updated, because health content needs an accuracy readers can check for themselves.
1. How we choose topics
- We write about the questions patients and doctors actually search for in Egypt and the Gulf, such as common tests, chronic conditions, pregnancy and child health, and about running a clinic for clinic owners.
- Every article answers the question in its first paragraph, then explains the details and when to see a doctor, and links to the matching tool or specialty.
2. The sources we rely on
- Medical information in patient articles comes from official bodies, chiefly the World Health Organization, Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population, the Saudi Ministry of Health, the UK NHS, the US CDC and Mayo Clinic.
- Professional articles written for doctors, like the formulas and scores in the doctors' tools, also draw on guidelines from the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and on research published in peer-reviewed medical journals, including the studies that defined each score, and the article or tool page names its reference with a link.
- Every article lists its sources with links, and we never write a number, dose or diagnostic threshold without a source, so what we cannot source we leave out.
3. Medical review
- No medical article is published before a licensed doctor reviews it, and the article shows the reviewer's name, title, licence number and review date, a rule the site itself enforces, so a medical article without a reviewer stays a draft that visitors cannot see.
- The doctor checks that the information is accurate, safe and suited to readers in their country, and anything they change is corrected before publication.
- Articles for clinic owners about management, pricing and software are not medical, and they give the source and date of every price or figure.
4. Prices and business figures
- Prices we quote, such as clinic software or consultation fees, are gathered from published price pages as they appeared in search engine results, we link those pages with the month and year, and we say that prices change and that the latest price is the one on the provider's own page.
- A figure without at least two credible sources is not written, and any worked example with made-up numbers is clearly labelled as hypothetical.
5. Updates and corrections
6. What the content is not
- Clinicato articles and tools are for awareness and support, they do not replace a doctor's examination, diagnosis and treatment, and the doctors' tools are meant for professionals, with every result read against the whole patient.
- In an emergency, call an ambulance or go to the nearest emergency department at once, do not wait to read an article.