From the makers of Citation Safe
Med Cite Safe: verify every medical citation in an expert report before opposing counsel does.
The same deterministic, no-LLM-in-the-loop existence check that powers Citation Safe, pointed at the medical literature. We check every PubMed ID, DOI, and clinical trial registration cited in a report or brief against the actual public source — live, not from a cached table — and flag the one thing generic citation tools miss entirely: whether the cited paper has been retracted.
Checked live against NCBI's E-utilities, including a retraction-status check on every hit.
Checked live against Crossref, with a second independent retraction cross-check for papers not indexed in PubMed.
Checked live against ClinicalTrials.gov, with withdrawn/terminated/suspended trials flagged for review rather than presented as a normal completed trial.
Why this matters for a med-mal defense
An expert report that cites a paper without noticing it was later retracted is a gift to opposing counsel and a real Daubert-challenge exposure. Med Cite Safe surfaces retraction status the moment a citation resolves — not after the deposition.
Honest coverage note
Bare Vancouver-style journal citations without a PMID, DOI, or NCT number are recognized by our parser but marked UNCONFIRMED — OUTSIDE COVERAGE today. A fuzzy author/journal/year match risks confirming the wrong paper, so we would rather tell you that than fake a check. Add the PMID or DOI and we check it live.
Built for defense counsel and expert witnesses
Medical citation coverage is a different data problem than case law, so it ships as its own data adapter on the same verification engine (see /quality for how Citation Safe's engine works) rather than a bolt-on. Free tier verifications are shared with Citation Safe: 3/month, no card required.
Track FDA enforcement? Argus HQ is our public FDA enforcement database — warning letters, recalls, and 483s, updated daily.
Also available
- Citation Safe — Legal case citations — existence, quote-match, and proposition support
- Tax Cite Safe — IRC sections, Treasury Regulations, and Tax Court citations
- FAR Check — FAR, DFARS, GAO bid-protest, and Federal Circuit/COFC citations
Need more than one? See the Argus Verification Suite (3-Pack $69/mo, All-Access $99/mo, Firm $299/mo).
Med Cite Safe is a citation-verification workflow tool, not medical or legal advice, and no professional or physician-patient relationship is created by using it. It checks that cited literature exists and whether it has been retracted — it does not evaluate clinical claims. See /disclaimer.