# Keep the evidence trail visible

Understand how retrieval, source inspection and structured appraisal support AttendMe's research workflows.

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Availability: live. Content review: product; Automated source and product-fact consistency checks; 2026-10-14.

## Start with relevant evidence

AttendMe searches 3.4M+ medical articles across 34 specialties. Retrieval considers specialty, study design, source authority and the research question. A corpus count is not a measure of clinical accuracy.

## Inspect the source

Citations let you follow a point back to the literature. Paper appraisal considers study design and available source material. Abstract-only access must stay explicit; a method name does not establish that a full independent appraisal has occurred.

## Separate evaluation from claims

Software tests, source-grounding checks and clinical evaluation establish different things. Public demonstrations are labelled. We do not turn an internal test count into a patient-outcome or clinical-usefulness claim.

## Walk through one evidence question

The useful output is a synthesis you can inspect, with the relevant papers and unresolved questions close at hand. Here is an illustrative route through the supported evidence workspace.

### State the research question

Select the relevant specialty. Ask: 'What randomised evidence compares early mobilisation with usual care in adult intensive care, and which functional outcomes were measured?' The example supplies a search question; it makes no finding about effectiveness.

### Inspect each important source

Open a citation beside a claim. Confirm the paper identity, study design, population and endpoint. Locate the source passage behind a numerical result and check its denominator and follow-up.

### Make the access limit explicit

Record whether you can inspect an abstract, full text or supplementary material. A detail unavailable in the source remains unresolved. A fluent summary and a citation link each support a review step; neither replaces that review.

### Continue the work

Save a relevant source to the evidence library. Appraise the paper, compare it with related studies or ask a focused follow-up. Keep reported findings separate from your assessment of relevance.

## Review before applying

AttendMe supports de-identified clinical research and evidence review. Check source currency, region, population, uncertainty and local guidance before deciding what applies.

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