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Write a pathway, or read one against current guidance, and be named on it
What the Work Involves
  • Contributing means writing or reworking a tool: setting out the clinical logic, choosing the thresholds and the bands, naming the sources it rests on, and writing the teaching text that goes with it. You do not need to write any code. A clear structure and the references behind it are the part only a clinician can supply.
  • Reviewing means reading a finished tool against current guidance and saying where it is wrong, out of date, unsafe or unclear. It is smaller work and it is the work that catches the defects that matter. Reviews are asked for by tool, so you are only ever sent something in your own field.
  • Acknowledgement. Contributors and reviewers are named on the tool they worked on, unless they ask not to be. It is a standing commitment, written into the editorial policy, not a favour. Nothing is paid and nothing is asked for either.
  • How much time. A review of one tool is usually an hour or two. Writing a new pathway is longer and is agreed in advance. There is no commitment beyond the piece of work you agree to, and no obligation to take the next one.

Tell us what you practise and what you know well. That is what decides which tool you are the right reader for, and it is the one thing here we cannot work out for ourselves.

No sign-in needed Named on what you work on No commitment beyond one piece of work
How would you like to help?

Please do not include any patient identifiers, and please do not attach or paste a CV. There is no file upload on this site. A link in the field above says the same thing.

Your address is used to write back to you about this, and for nothing else. It is never shown to anybody else, never added to a mailing list and never passed on. What is stored and for how long is in the privacy notice; what happens to anything you send is section 9 of the terms of use.

If You Would Rather Just Point Something Out

You do not have to join anything to correct a dose. The contact form takes a message in thirty seconds, with no name and no address if you would rather not give one, and a message saying that something is clinically wrong is read before anything else.

Either way the record is public. Corrections and new tools are listed on What's new as they happen, and a good number of the entries there started as one clinician saying that something did not look right.