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Medical Review & Sourcing Policy

Fountain of Youth SWFL publishes people-first health content designed to reflect current evidence, practical patient guidance, and appropriate medical context. This policy explains how we create, review, source, correct, and update medically oriented content so readers can understand how information is developed and evaluated.

Scope

This policy applies to medically oriented content hosted on fountainofyouthswfl.com, including articles, FAQs, service descriptions, care guides, and downloadable resources. It covers topics such as hormone therapy, medical weight loss, IV therapy, medical aesthetics, wellness procedures, medication safety, and patient education.

Editorial Principles

• Accuracy first: We aim to align medical content with the best available evidence and current regulatory or clinical information relevant to the topic.
• Safety focus: We prioritize meaningful contraindications, risks, limitations, monitoring needs, and appropriate aftercare in clear language.
• Transparency: We identify medical reviewers and review dates on reviewed content and disclose material updates when appropriate.
• Reader-centered clarity: We avoid unnecessary jargon and explain clinical terms when they are important to understanding a treatment or health decision.
• Independence: Editorial conclusions are not changed in exchange for payment, sponsorship, or favorable commercial treatment.

Authoring & Medical Review Workflow

1. Drafting: A writer or editor prepares content using the source hierarchy and editorial standards described on this page.
2. Internal quality check: Material medical claims, statistics, regulatory statements, contraindications, and safety information are checked against appropriate sources before clinical review.
3. Clinician review: Content requiring medical review is evaluated by a qualified clinician with relevant training and experience. The reviewer checks medical accuracy, safety, balance, context, and whether conclusions match the supporting evidence.
4. Edits & approval: Reviewer feedback is incorporated before publication or a substantive medical update. The reviewer’s name, credentials, and review date are displayed on reviewed content.
5. Publish & monitor: After publication, we monitor for material changes in safety information, prescribing information, regulatory status, clinical guidance, and other evidence that could change what readers should know.

Source Hierarchy (How We Evaluate Evidence)

We prioritize primary sources and high-quality secondary evidence. The most appropriate source depends on the claim being made. When reliable sources disagree, we describe the uncertainty rather than presenting a disputed conclusion as settled fact.

1. Government and regulatory sources: such as FDA, CDC, NIH, state health authorities, and international regulators when relevant.
2. Peer-reviewed primary clinical research: randomized trials, prospective studies, safety studies, and other original research indexed in PubMed or comparable databases.
3. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses: including Cochrane reviews and comparable peer-reviewed evidence syntheses.
4. Academic medical centers and universities: clinical guidance, evidence summaries, and educational resources when they accurately reflect the underlying literature.
5. Professional societies: practice guidelines, consensus statements, and position papers from relevant medical or scientific organizations.
6. Textbooks and reference monographs: used primarily for established definitions, background, and stable clinical concepts.

Manufacturer announcements, press releases, and reputable news reporting may be used to document attributable developments such as trial announcements, regulatory submissions, product launches, or expected timelines. They are not treated as independent proof of clinical efficacy or safety when primary regulatory documents or peer-reviewed evidence are available.

Citation Standards

• Material claims involving medical risk, benefit, prevalence, treatment effect, regulatory status, or timing are supported by appropriate sources that readers can identify from the surrounding content.
• Direct statistics are attributed to the original study, regulatory document, database, or other primary source whenever practical.
• We prefer working, non-tracking links to primary or authoritative sources when those sources are publicly accessible.
• We distinguish preliminary findings, observational associations, sponsor-reported results, expert consensus, and randomized evidence when those differences affect interpretation.
• We do not use AI-generated text, search summaries, or secondary marketing claims as substitutes for the underlying medical evidence.

Updates & Review Cadence

• Risk-based review: Medication, treatment-safety, regulatory, and rapidly changing clinical topics receive priority for reassessment. Stable educational content may be reviewed less frequently.
• Trigger-based updates: We update content sooner when material safety alerts, prescribing-information changes, regulatory actions, new clinical guidance, or significant evidence changes what patients should know.
• Date information: Reviewed content displays the medical-review date. Material content updates may also be identified with an updated date or revision note when useful to readers.
• No artificial freshness: Dates are not changed solely to make older content appear newer. A new review or update date should reflect an actual review or substantive change.

Corrections & Reader Feedback

If you identify a possible factual error, outdated medical statement, or broken source link, contact us at info@fountainofyouthswfl.com. We review reported issues promptly and correct verified errors. Material corrections or changes that meaningfully affect interpretation may be noted on the page or in its revision history when appropriate.

Reviewer Credentials & Disclosures

Reviewed medical content identifies the reviewer by name, professional credentials, and review date. Relevant professional or financial relationships that could reasonably affect interpretation should be disclosed. We do not accept payment from manufacturers in exchange for editorial inclusion or favorable medical conclusions.

Advertising, Commercial Influence, and Affiliations

Fountain of Youth SWFL is a medical and wellness practice, and some educational pages discuss services the clinic provides. Commercial relevance does not change the evidence standard applied to medical claims. When appropriate, content should distinguish established treatment uses from investigational, off-label, emerging, or wellness applications and should describe meaningful risks, limitations, and alternatives.

Use of AI Assistance

AI tools may assist with research organization, outlines, drafting, editing, or grammar. AI output is not treated as a medical source. A human editor is responsible for checking the underlying evidence, links, regulatory information, and factual claims. Medically oriented content that requires clinical review is evaluated by a qualified clinician before publication or after a substantive medical revision.

Patient Privacy & Case Examples

We do not publish protected health information without appropriate authorization. When genuine patient cases are discussed, identifying details are removed or otherwise handled in accordance with applicable privacy requirements. Hypothetical or composite examples are clearly identified as such and are not presented as the experience of an actual individual patient.

Version History

Date	Change	Editor/Reviewer
September 15, 2025	Initial publication of policy.	Dr. Keith Lafferty MD
December 10, 2025	Updated review cadence and source hierarchy notes.	Dr. Keith Lafferty MD
August 31, 2026	Revised review cadence, sourcing standards, citation language, AI disclosure, corrections policy, and case-example requirements.	Dr. Keith Lafferty MD

Contact

Questions about this policy or a specific page? Email info@fountainofyouthswfl.com or call 239-355-3294.