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Search PubMed from your notes, without exposing your patient

Ask a clinical question or pick your notes. Identifiers are removed on your computer, you approve the exact search, and only that search goes to PubMed.

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Example · sample data

1 · Your question
Mr Daniel Hart, 67, seen 14 March 2025: new atrial fibrillation, is anticoagulation worth it at his age?
Question+ 1 note
2 · De-identified On this computer
Mr Daniel Hart, 67 older adult, seen 14 March 2025: new atrial fibrillation, is anticoagulation worth it at this age?
3 · Search used You approve
atrial fibrillation AND anticoagulation AND (aged OR elderly)
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4 · Sources
  • GuidelineExample guideline on managing atrial fibrillationExample journal · 2024
  • Systematic reviewExample review: anticoagulants in older adults with AFExample journal · 2023
  • RCTExample trial of an oral anticoagulant vs placeboExample journal · 2021

Titles above are placeholders, not real articles

Sources, not answers

The Evidence tab helps you find published literature for the patient in front of you. It does not answer the clinical question for you: it shows you the sources (title, journal, year) so you can read them and apply your own judgement.

Before anything is sent, the text is de-identified on your computer. You see the result, you can edit it, and nothing is searched until you click. The search goes to PubMed, run by the US National Library of Medicine, and to nothing else.

Ranked by study type

Results are ordered using the publication types PubMed itself assigns to each article. Doctify does not read or judge the article content; it applies a fixed order:

  1. Practice guidelines
  2. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  3. Randomised controlled trials
  4. Other clinical trials
  5. Everything else (observational studies, reviews, case reports and others)

Within the same level, more recent articles come first.

How it works

From your notes to the literature

  1. Ask, or add your notesType a question or pick one or more notes. Nothing is sent yet.
  2. Identifiers removed locallyA de-identification model and rules run on your computer.
  3. Approve and edit the searchYou read the exact search that would be sent, and can change it.
  4. PubMed, rankedAfter your click, PubMed returns articles, ranked by study type.

Automatic de-identification can miss something. The check before sending is yours.

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Only the search you approved, after identifiers have been removed and after you have read it. Your notes themselves are not sent.
No. It finds and ranks published sources. You read them and make the clinical decision.
By the publication type PubMed assigns: guidelines, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, then randomised controlled trials, then other clinical trials, then everything else. Ties go to the more recent year.
No. The Evidence tab always searches PubMed directly, even if you have set up your own AI key for other features.

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