Editorial governance
Editorial and medical review policy
How ReplacedHip separates editorial responsibility, patient-experience evidence and future external medical review.
Who is accountable
Editorial responsibility
ReplacedHip selects, curates, writes and publishes the material on this site. It is responsible for accurate presentation of the documented evidence, clear limitations, corrections and version history.
No private person is named as responsible editor on the public site at present. The public responsibility statement remains ReplacedHip until a named role is explicitly approved for publication.
Medical information
How medical sources are selected
Medical claims are sourced separately from patient accounts. ReplacedHip prioritises current clinical guidelines, public health services and established professional organisations, including NICE, NHS, AAOS and AAHKS where relevant.
- Patient accounts describe reported experiences.
- Forum advice and explanations are not treated as medical facts.
- Medical sources are linked beside the professional context they support.
- Individual instructions from a person's own care team take priority.
Different checks
Editorial review is not medical review
Editorial review checks clarity, faithful use of documented evidence, denominators, uncertainty and the separation of patient experience from medical information.
Evidence review checks the curation method, source traceability, analysis units and patient-experience findings.
External medical review checks medical claims, source interpretation, safety wording and care-seeking language within an agreed scope. It does not make a selected forum corpus representative.
External sign-off
How future medical review will work
- A page and its source manifest are locked to an exact version and SHA-256.
- A qualified reviewer checks the agreed medical scope and documents required changes and relevant conflicts.
- Any medical changes are returned for confirmation before sign-off.
- A public review credit is shown only when an approved review matches the live content hash and has not expired or been superseded.
A meaningful change to medical claims, safety language or professional-source interpretation can require a new review. Editorial or technical changes that do not alter meaning are recorded separately.
About this page
- Title
- Editorial and medical review policy
- Publisher
- ReplacedHip
- Last reviewed
- August 21, 2026
- Last updated
- August 21, 2026
- Content type
- Editorial governance policy
Method and source policy Editorial reviewCorrectionsIndependence