Editorial Policy

Our Purpose

Medi eBook exists to help nursing and medical students find clear, reliable meanings for medical abbreviations and terminology, and to plan their study. Because our subject is medicine, accuracy is the most important standard we hold ourselves to. This page explains how our content is created, checked, corrected and kept up to date.

Who Creates and Reviews Our Content

Content on Medi eBook is prepared by our founder, who is a web developer and not a medical professional. For that reason, clinical content is checked by nurses who hold a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and have hospital-based clinical training. Each content area has a nursing reviewer who is responsible for it.

You can meet the founder and each nursing reviewer on our Our Team page, and read more on our About page.

Sources We Rely On

We consult a range of well-recognised medical references before anything is published, instead of relying on a single source or on unverified websites. The references we consult include:

All of these are free, publicly available references, so you can check any entry against them yourself.

Where trusted sources give different meanings for the same abbreviation or term, we show the meanings together with the context in which each one is used, instead of choosing only one.

How Content Is Prepared and Reviewed

1. Research. Each abbreviation or term is researched using the well-recognised references described above.
2. Writing. The meaning is written in plain language, with the context and the department or specialty where it is typically used.
3. Nursing review before publishing. The nursing reviewer responsible for that area verifies each entry first, checking the meaning, the context and the clinical usage.
4. Correction. Anything the reviewer flags is corrected before the entry is published.
5. Ongoing improvement. Pages are revisited and improved over time.

What Reviewed Means on Medi eBook

When we say content has been reviewed, we mean that a qualified nurse has checked that the meaning given is correct, that the context is appropriate, and that the term is used the way it is used in real clinical practice.

Abbreviations With More Than One Meaning

Many medical abbreviations have several meanings, and some are known to cause errors in clinical practice. We aim to show every common meaning of an abbreviation on one page, with the department or setting where each is used, so that students learn to check context instead of assuming a single meaning.

The use of abbreviations varies between hospitals, regions and specialties. Always follow the approved abbreviation list of your own institution.

Corrections

Medicine changes, sources can differ and mistakes can happen. If you believe something on Medi eBook is wrong or unclear, please tell us. It helps if you include the page or the abbreviation or term, what you believe is incorrect, and a reference if you have one.

We review every report. Where a correction is needed, we fix the page and update it. You can report a correction through our Contact page or by email at mediebook1@gmail.com.

Keeping Content Up to Date

We revisit and expand our pages over time, guided by what learners are searching for most and by feedback from readers and reviewers. When we make a significant change to this policy, we update the date at the top of this page.

Editorial Independence and Advertising

Medi eBook is free to use and may display advertising to help cover its costs. Advertising is kept separate from our content:

• Advertisers do not decide what we publish or how we explain it.
• We do not accept payment to add, change or remove an abbreviation, term or explanation.
• Advertisements are not selected or reviewed by our nursing reviewers, and an advertisement is not an endorsement.

The Limits of Our Content

Medi eBook is a study and reference resource. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Please read our Disclaimer for full details on how our content should and should not be used.