CareLoop
Evidence and evaluation

Rigor should be inspectable, not implied.

CareLoop combines an evidence-based communication method with a source-locking system designed around a documented failure mode of generative discharge instructions.

Reproducible engineering benchmark

The exact-source path is tested against hand-labelled fixtures.

Current suite passes
12fictional instruction documents
48/48expected actions correctly categorized
2/2expected clarification flags caught
100%exact wording in accepted fallback actions

These are deterministic engineering results on synthetic fixtures—not clinical accuracy, patient-outcome evidence, or a medical-device validation study.

Method

Teach-back checks understanding in a non-shaming way.

AHRQ describes teach-back as an evidence-based health-literacy intervention: the patient or caregiver explains, in their own words, what they need to know or do.

Read the AHRQ guidance
Risk model

Unconstrained generation can change safety-critical details.

A 2024 clinician-reviewed study of 100 AI-generated discharge instructions found potentially harmful AI-attributable issues in 18%, including hallucinations and new medications.

Read the peer-reviewed study
Browser-verified workflow

The real intake path is part of the release gate.

Twenty unit and API checks plus twenty desktop and mobile browser journeys exercise the safety boundary and the user-visible workflow.

  1. 01
    Selectable PDF extraction

    A generated text PDF is read through the same bundled PDF worker used in production.

  2. 02
    Privacy review before analysis

    The extracted text remains editable, and analysis stays locked until the user confirms de-identification.

  3. 03
    Plan, teach-back, and print

    The suite completes every source-linked action, detects a wrong dose, and verifies source evidence in print mode.

  4. 04
    Desktop and mobile accessibility

    Critical pages run on desktop Chromium and a Pixel 7 profile with automated accessibility and console checks.

What the current evidence proves

CareLoop enforces its own acceptance boundary.

Demonstrated

  • Exact cited excerpts and valid source-line identifiers
  • Exact number-and-unit preservation in accepted actions
  • Rejection of invented clinical terms and duplicates
  • Source-built feedback after teach-back classification

Not yet demonstrated

  • Clinical safety or diagnostic effectiveness
  • Improved outcomes in patients or caregivers
  • Performance on scanned, multilingual, or handwritten documents
  • Regulatory readiness for clinical deployment

See the acceptance boundary work.

The verified sample includes medicines, self-care, restrictions, follow-up, warning signs, and a deliberately unresolved detail that becomes a question instead of an invented answer.

Run the verified sample