How we write and check what's on this site

Some guides are drafted by hand; others start as an AI-assisted first draft from published clinical sources, generated on a weekly schedule from a queue of topics we choose. Either way, a draft is never published on its own — a named person on our team reviews it, edits it, and attaches their byline before it goes live. A guide with no named author has not been reviewed and is never published; that's enforced by the publishing tool, not by good intentions.

Every factual claim about a treatment carries a citation, listed in full at the bottom of the article with its source hostname visible so you can see where it came from before you click. We do not publish a guide about a specific procedure without sources — an article tagged to a procedure cannot be published with an empty source list.

Guides are not medical advice, and they are not a substitute for talking to a clinician. They exist so that you can ask a provider better questions.

Our guides are not reviewed by clinicians. They are written and edited by the PRP Atlas team, who are not medical professionals, from the published sources cited at the end of each article. That is why every clinical claim carries a citation: so you can check it yourself rather than take our word for it.

We say that here, once, rather than stamping a disclaimer on every article. If a qualified clinician ever reviews our guides, the reviewed articles will say so, with the reviewer named.

An "NPI Verified" or "NPI on File" badge on a listing means a clinician named on that listing, or the practice itself, was matched against the CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) and has a real NPI on file. The listing page shows which: each named clinician carries their own match status, so a practice is never presented as verified just because one colleague matched. Every NPI we display links to its public registry entry so you can confirm it yourself.

It is an identity check. It is not an assessment of quality of care, outcomes, or whether a treatment is right for you. We do not verify board certification or licence standing, and we do not print a verdict on either.

"Not Yet Verified" means we found no confident match — not that a clinic is untrustworthy.

If something here is wrong — a fact in a guide, a detail on your clinic's listing, a credential attributed to the wrong person — email hello@prpatlas.com and we will fix it or remove it. Practices can claim their listing to correct their own details directly.

Paid placement never affects a verification badge. Featured listings are labelled "Sponsored" wherever they appear, and paying for placement cannot produce a Verified badge — a claimed, featured listing with no registry match still reads "Not Yet Verified".