Who writes and reviews these pages

The team, and the company behind it

These pages are written and reviewed by Team Blood Interpretation, the editorial and medical team of the site. The site is published by Smart Medical Care, a registered company whose details appear in the legal notice. Accountability for everything here rests with that company, and it can be reached at the address published there.

The practitioners on the team have not authorised publication of their names, so no individual is named on this site. We would rather state that plainly than write “reviewed by our experts” and leave you to guess. A named reviewer with a public profile is a stronger signal than a team name; where we cannot offer one, we offer the next best thing, which is a verifiable publisher and a review process you can check against the pages themselves.

What review covers, and what it does not

Review covers factual accuracy, the framing of uncertainty, and the limits stated on each page. It does not make the site a medical service: no page here gives personal medical advice, and neither the free first read nor the full report produces a diagnosis.

Nobody on the team reads your report. The free first read and the full report are produced by the interpretation engine; the team reviews the rules that engine applies and the wording of the pages, never an individual result.

How a page is sourced

Every figure on an explanatory page carries a source, listed at the foot of that page with a DOI link. We cite clinical guidelines, consensus statements from learned societies and systematic reviews in preference to single studies, because on a subject like this one a society text outweighs an isolated result.

We do not cite preprints. A manuscript that has not been peer-reviewed may be perfectly sound, but it cannot support a health claim addressed to a worried reader. Where a French-language version of a source exists, the French pages cite it.

When the evidence does not support a claim we would like to make, the claim goes rather than the source. That has already happened on this site: the fasting page previously stated that a lipid panel requires an overnight fast, which European consensus abandoned in 2016.

When a page changes, and how to report an error

A page is re-read whenever it is modified in substance, and the review date shown on it is updated. Corrections are made visibly rather than silently: a page corrected after review carries a new date, not a quiet edit.

If you find an error, write to the address in the legal notice. Point to the page and the sentence. A factual correction on a health page is worth more to us than a polite message, and it will be treated as such.