Editorial standards
How Signal & Scope classifies, labels, and links medical change.
Every record should make it easier to answer three questions: who published this, what kind of evidence or authority is it, and where can the original be verified?
Discovery labels communicate source context. They do not rate treatment quality, establish causality, or convert an update into patient-specific guidance.
Source and provenance labels
T0 identifies a controlling or first-party authority such as a regulator. T1 identifies primary research, a registry record, or formal guidance. T2 identifies an institutional or professional source. T3 identifies reviewed commentary or an explainer. T4 identifies an unverified discovery signal, including many commercial announcements.
The tier describes the source relationship, not whether every claim inside the record is correct. Readers should open the original and examine the study design, notice status, jurisdiction, dates, and disclosures.
Automated collection
Configured feeds and public APIs can collect permitted titles, dates, citation metadata, status fields, and canonical links. Automation can miss context or carry upstream errors. The original publisher or registry remains the controlling record.
Signal & Scope does not assign its own byline to aggregated records and does not present source-feed text as independent reporting.
Corrections, retractions, and changing status
Medical and legal records can be corrected, retracted, superseded, stayed, or withdrawn. When a source exposes that state, the workspace should preserve it visibly and link to the controlling update rather than silently rewriting history.
Publication, update, effective, fetched, and reviewed dates have different meanings and should not be substituted for one another.
Clinical boundary
Signal & Scope is a current-awareness and reference-navigation product. It does not evaluate an individual patient, select a diagnosis, recommend treatment, or override local policy and professional judgment. Do not enter patient information into search or filter fields.
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