How we produce and review this content
We publish health articles for the families and personal care attendants we work with. Health information is consequential — people act on it — so this page sets out exactly how it is made, who checks it, and what to do when we get something wrong.
Every claim is checked against its own source
We do not repeat health claims from other websites, press releases or summaries. Each factual claim is traced back to the study or guideline it came from, and that source is linked so you can read it yourself.
Specifically, we check three things that summaries routinely get wrong:
- Who was studied. A result from middle-aged men does not automatically apply to an 82-year-old woman, and we say which population was actually enrolled.
- What was measured. A finding that belongs to two factors combined is not attributed to one of them.
- Whether it still holds. Guidance changes. Where current recommendations contradict an older study, we say so plainly rather than quietly leaving the older claim up.
This is not a hypothetical standard. When these articles were first drafted, checking them against their own cited studies found four material errors — a survival figure credited to diet when it belonged to diet and exercise combined, a study population described as elderly when it was middle-aged, a supplement recommendation since contradicted by US preventive guidance, and a contested minority opinion presented as settled fact. All four were corrected before publication.
What we will not do
- We do not tell you to change a medication. Every article that touches on prescriptions carries a notice to speak to the prescribing clinician first, and we mean it.
- We do not present contested science as settled. Where experts genuinely disagree, we describe the disagreement and who holds which position.
- We do not publish claims we cannot source. If a striking figure cannot be traced to the study it supposedly comes from, it comes out.
- We do not sell anything through these articles. They are not advertisements for our services.
Medical review
Health articles on this site are medically reviewed by Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP, board-certified in Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine, Interventional Pain Management, Addiction Medicine and Obesity Medicine.
Disclosure: Dr. Padda is the owner of Communicare Elite. A reviewer with a financial interest in the company is a conflict you are entitled to know about, so we state it on every article rather than burying it here.
Each article shows the date it was last reviewed. That date moves only when a review actually takes place — it is not refreshed automatically to look current.
This is information, not medical advice
Nothing here is a diagnosis, a treatment recommendation, or a substitute for talking to your own clinician, who knows your history and your medications. Consumer Directed Services is non-medical personal care; our home health services are delivered under your physician’s plan of care, not on the basis of anything you read on this site.
For a medical emergency, call 911. For a mental health crisis, call or text 988.
Tell us if we got something wrong
We would rather be corrected than be wrong. If you believe something on this site is inaccurate — particularly if you can point to the source that contradicts it — call (314) 809-6655 or email info@communicareelite.com. Substantive corrections are made to the article itself, not appended as a footnote, and the review date is updated when they are.
Questions about our services rather than our articles?
Call (314) 809-6655 for a free consultation, or text (314) 886-5902. We serve St. Louis City, St. Louis County and Missouri communities within about 40 miles of our office.