Editorial policy

Calqulate.net is an educational site that publishes health-related calculators and explainer content. It is built and written by its two co-founders, Meet Akabari and Krushal Barasiya, and its medical content is separately reviewed by a licensed clinician (see Authors and reviewers).

This site is not a clinical practice, is not a telehealth provider, does not prescribe medications, does not sell medications and does not endorse specific pharmacies or compounding pharmacies. Nothing on this site creates a doctor–patient relationship.

Before writing a health calculator or educational page we do three things: read the current FDA-approved prescribing information (or the equivalent regulator document where applicable), read the primary trial(s) the drug or diagnostic was licensed from, and read a current clinical guideline from a recognised professional society.

Numeric values that appear on the page — dose ranges, timelines, prevalence figures, statistical results — must be either directly traceable to one of those source types or be removed. If a number can't be sourced, it doesn't go on the page.

Ordered from strongest to weakest:

1. FDA / regulatory labels. Current U.S. Food and Drug Administration prescribing information (Highlights + full label) for any drug named on a page.
2. Peer-reviewed systematic reviews and meta-analyses from journals indexed in PubMed / MEDLINE.
3. Peer-reviewed randomized controlled trials, cited by name (trial acronym, publication and year).
4. Clinical practice guidelines from recognised professional bodies (for example, ADA, AACE, ESC, NICE) — cited to the current version.
5. Peer-reviewed observational studies — used when they are the strongest evidence available and always labeled as observational.
6. Expert consensus and mechanistic explanations — used for background framing, never for a numeric claim.

We do not cite as evidence: press releases, PR-driven news articles, marketing copy from drug manufacturers or telehealth companies, personal blogs, or social-media threads.

Citations on Calqulate.net are named, dated and linked. A statement like “≈15% mean weight loss at 68 weeks” must be followed by the trial name, publication venue and year, with a link to the abstract on the publisher's or regulator's domain (for example, nejm.org, jamanetwork.com, accessdata.fda.gov, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). Broken or dead-link citations are treated as content bugs and get fixed the same way other bugs do.

Some pages also carry an inline evidence badge that labels a specific claim with its evidence tier (FDA label, RCT, meta-analysis, observational, guideline, or expert opinion). Those badges are populated by the page author from the same source they cited — we don't automatically classify evidence.

Medical content on Calqulate.net is reviewed by Dr. Jaydeep Sanghani (MBBS, MD, DNB(Anaesth.), PDCC(CCM), DrNB(CCM)), Critical Care Specialist & Anesthesiologist.

What a medical review of a Calqulate page checks:

• Confirms every dosing number cited on the page matches the current FDA prescribing information or a named peer-reviewed trial.
• Confirms every prevalence figure, timeline or clinical statistic is either sourced or removed.
• Flags any sentence that could be misread as a prescription, dose recommendation, or endorsement of a specific product.
• Verifies that safety framing (red flags, when to contact a clinician) is present and unambiguous.
• Does not review the calculator's arithmetic (that is unit-tested separately) and does not vouch for the mathematical formula, only the medical framing around it.

Reviewer independence: the reviewer has final say over whether a page carries a “medically reviewed” badge. A page that hasn't completed review does not display the badge.

Every medically-reviewed page carries a visible “last reviewed” date. That date reflects the most recent review event — bumping it without a real review would be dishonest, so we don't.

Beyond the scheduled cycle, we re-review a page immediately when:

• The underlying FDA prescribing information changes.
• A pivotal trial cited on the page is updated, retracted, or superseded.
• A new indication or dose is approved for a drug the page covers.
• A reader-reported correction (see below) affects a medical claim.

Non-medical edits (typo fixes, layout changes, added examples, new internal links) don't change the “last reviewed” date.

If you find a factual error on a Calqulate page — a wrong dose, a broken citation, an outdated statistic, or a claim that no longer matches the source — please email corrections@calqulate.net. Point to the page URL, quote the exact sentence, and include the source that shows the correct value.

We aim to acknowledge corrections within a small number of business days. Confirmed medical corrections re-open the page's medical-review cycle. When we fix a factual error, the fix is applied to the page directly; substantive changes are noted where relevant so the page's meaning is clear.

Calqulate.net is independently owned and operated by its two founders. The site is not paid by any drug manufacturer, compounding pharmacy, or telehealth company to feature a specific product, dose or brand.

The site may run generic display advertising and may link to unrelated products through Amazon or similar affiliate programs where clearly disclosed. Advertising placements do not influence editorial content and are never used to determine what a calculator recommends.

The medical reviewer is compensated for their review work. Compensation is not tied to what the review concludes.

• Calculators use published formulas and population-average parameters. Your individual results can differ from what a calculator returns.
• Medical content is written for a general adult audience. It is not personalised to your medical history, medications, allergies, or lab values.
• We do not have access to your medical records and cannot review them.
• The site does not detect, diagnose, or manage medical emergencies. If you think you are having one, call your local emergency number.
• Prescribing information and clinical guidelines change. A page that was correct on its last-reviewed date may not reflect a change published after that date until we re-review it.

Everything on Calqulate.net is educational. Nothing on this site is medical advice, a prescription, a diagnosis, or a treatment recommendation for you as an individual.

Decisions about starting, stopping, adjusting or switching a medication — including GLP-1 medications — belong with a licensed clinician who knows your medical history, can examine you, and can order the appropriate labs.

For the site-wide legal terms, see the disclaimer. For privacy and data-handling terms, see the privacy policy.