Do not upload text containing Protected Health Information (PHI). Citation Safe for Medical is designed for medical literature citation verification only. See Terms of Service §1c.
From the makers of Citation Safe
Citation Safe for Medical: 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not from a cached table — and flag the one thing generic citation tools miss entirely: whether the cited paper has been retracted.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Checked live against ClinicalTrials.gov, with withdrawn/terminated/suspended trials flagged for review rather than presented as a normal completed trial.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. Citation Safe for Medical surfaces retraction status the moment a citation resolves — not after the deposition.
Citation Safe for Medical pricing
A retraction caught before deposition costs nothing next to a retraction discovered under cross-examination.
Get started with Solo — $29/mo verifies briefs across every vertical, including medical citations. Try free.
Need higher volume? Professional $79/mo at 150 docs/mo. Multi-vertical teams: Argus Verification Suite All-Access $99/mo.
Same refund contract as Citation Safe: if we stamp VERIFIED and we are wrong, that verification is refunded automatically. Full policy at /refund.
Citation Safe for Medical is not designed to receive Protected Health Information (PHI) and is not a HIPAA business associate. Submit citation text only (case names, PMIDs, DOIs, NCT numbers) — never patient names, medical record numbers, or other identifiers regulated under HIPAA. See /disclaimer.
Also citing across multiple verticals? Argus Verification Suite All-Access bundles every vertical (Legal, Tax, Medical, Government) for $99/mo.
Accuracy -- measured, not claimed
This is Citation Safe's own measured accuracy for medical citations against real PMID, DOI, and NCT citations (including retraction detection) -- a separate eval set from Citation Safe's legal case-law numbers at /quality, since this vertical checks different sources (PubMed E-utilities, Crossref, ClinicalTrials.gov) on the same underlying verification engine. 51 medical-vertical citations authored: 2 real PMIDs (including PMID 9500320, the Wakefield MMR-autism Lancet paper documented in lib/adapters/pubmed-adapter.ts's own header comment as the live-confirmed retraction test case -- correctly re...
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 (architecture described at /quality) rather than a bolt-on. Free tier verifications are shared with Citation Safe: 3/month, no card required.
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.
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Frequently asked questions
What does Citation Safe™ for Medical check?
PubMed IDs (PMID) against NCBI's E-utilities with a retraction-status check on every hit, DOIs against Crossref with a second independent retraction cross-check, and clinical trial NCT numbers against ClinicalTrials.gov, flagging withdrawn, terminated, or suspended trials for review.
Does it flag retracted papers?
Yes — retraction status is checked the moment a PMID or DOI resolves, whether the paper is indexed in PubMed or only in Crossref.
What if a citation is a bare journal reference with no PMID, DOI, or NCT number?
It's recognized by our parser but marked UNCONFIRMED — OUTSIDE COVERAGE, because a fuzzy author/journal/year match risks confirming the wrong paper. Add the PMID or DOI and we check it live.
Is this medical or legal advice?
No. Citation Safe for Medical is a verification tool, not medical or legal advice, and does not create a physician-patient or attorney-client relationship. Human review of every citation is always required.
What's free?
3 document verifications per month, shared with Citation Safe's free tier, no card required.
What does it cost after the free tier?
Verifying medical citations is covered by the unified Solo plan at $29/mo (30 docs/mo) or Professional at $79/mo (150 docs/mo) at /pricing. Argus Verification Suite All-Access at $99/mo bundles all four verticals.
Also available
- Citation Safe — Legal case citations — existence, quote-match, and proposition support (built, rolling out in stages)
- Citation Safe for Tax — IRC sections, Treasury Regulations, and Tax Court citations
- Citation Safe for Government Contracts — FAR, DFARS, GAO bid-protest, and Federal Circuit/COFC citations
Need more than one? See the Argus Verification Suite All-Access ($99/mo, all four verticals bundled).
Citation Safe for Medical 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.