PRP Atlas
Directory / Editorial Policy

How we write and check what's on this site

PRP Atlas is a directory first. Everything below describes how the written guides are produced and what our badges do — and do not — claim.

How guides are written

Guides are researched and written by hand from published clinical sources. 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We do not publish a guide about a specific procedure without sources. That is enforced by the publishing tool, not by good intentions: 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.

What "medically reviewed" means here

Most of our guides are not clinician-reviewed. When an article carries a "Medically reviewed by" line, it means a named clinician with stated credentials read that specific article on the date shown. When it carries no such line, no clinician has reviewed it.

We say that here, once, rather than stamping "not medically reviewed" on individual articles. The reason is the same one that governs our provider listings: printing a negative next to a specific claim reads as an allegation rather than an absence, and we would rather state a limit plainly than imply a fault.

What our provider badges mean

A "Verified" badge on a listing means the named physician was matched against the CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) and has a real NPI on file. 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.

Corrections

If something here is wrong — a fact in a guide, a detail on your clinic's listing, a credential attributed to the wrong person — tell us 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".

Who writes this

PRP Atlas Editorial

Editor

Guides are researched and written by the PRP Atlas editorial team from published clinical sources, which are cited on every article. We are not clinicians, and nothing here is medical advice. Guides carry a reviewer byline only when a named clinician has actually reviewed them.

Carlo Boniol

Editor

Carlo built PRP Atlas and edits its guides. He is not a clinician; guides are researched from published sources, which are cited on every article, and nothing here is medical advice.

Ryan

Editor

Ryan edits guides for PRP Atlas. He is not a clinician; guides are researched from published sources, which are cited on every article, and nothing here is medical advice.

Guest Contributor

Contributor

Written by an outside contributor and edited by PRP Atlas. Guides are researched from published sources, which are cited on every article, and nothing here is medical advice. Where a contributor is named on the article, that name is the byline that matters.