Clinical Evidence & Claim Entailment Verifier
verify_evidenceVerify medical citations and DOI authenticity, then check clinical claims against guideline evidence with GRADE certainty scoring to flag unsupported or hallucinated assertions.
Instructions
Performs two-stage medical evidence verification: validates bibliographic citation existence and DOI authenticity, and verifies clinical claim entailment against authoritative guideline corpora with GRADE certainty scoring.
When to use:
Verifying whether a clinical assertion, guideline claim, or medical literature citation is authentic, guideline-concordant, and free of medical hallucination.
When NOT to use:
Executing mathematical clinical calculators or risk algorithms (use calculate_clinical_score instead).
Triage screening of patient acute emergency symptoms or vital signs (use check_red_flags instead).
Redacting patient identifying data from clinical records (use scrub_phi instead).
Parameter constraints & formats:
'ref_id': Standardized guideline registry key formatted as '[ORGANIZATION][YEAR][TOPIC]' (e.g. 'ESC_2024_AF' for ESC atrial fibrillation, 'KDIGO_2021' for chronic kidney disease, 'AHA_2023_HF' for heart failure, 'BTS_2023_PNEUMONIA' for British Thoracic Society); cross-verified against curated bibliographic registry.
'claim': Natural language clinical statement, diagnostic assertion, or therapeutic recommendation (e.g. 'Oral anticoagulation is recommended for male patients with non-valvular AF and CHA2DS2-VA score >= 2'); parsed for entities, comparator thresholds, and direction of effect against source guideline text.
'patient_age_years': Patient age in years to evaluate age-stratified guideline applicability (e.g. pediatric <18 cutoffs in Schwartz vs adult >=18 in CKD-EPI); omitted evaluates general adult population.
'patient_is_pregnant': Flag indicating pregnancy status to activate teratogenicity checks and maternal-fetal clinical guideline boundaries.
Behavioral guarantees & return states:
Pure deterministic offline cross-verification; executes in memory without network telemetry or data persistence.
Auth & limits: Fully local execution; requires no API keys, credentials, or network auth, with zero rate limits.
Return contract: Returns citation_metadata (ref_id, validity boolean, DOI, publication year) and claim_entailment (status 'SUPPORTED'|'REFUTED'|'UNVERIFIED', confidence 0.0-1.0, and GRADE certainty 'HIGH'|'MODERATE'|'LOW'|'VERY_LOW').
Error handling: Unrecognized ref_id or unverified citation safely returns valid=false and status='UNVERIFIED' without throwing uncaught exceptions.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| claim | Yes | The specific clinical claim, assertion, or recommendation to verify against the source guideline evidence. | |
| ref_id | Yes | Unique citation reference identifier from the guideline repository (e.g., 'ESC_2024_AF', 'KDIGO_2021', 'AHA_2023_HF'). | |
| patient_age_years | No | Optional patient age in years to evaluate age-dependent guideline scope and validity boundaries. | |
| patient_is_pregnant | No | Optional boolean flag indicating pregnancy to evaluate pregnancy-specific guideline contraindications. |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| claim_entailment | Yes | Claim entailment assessment including entailment status, confidence score, GRADE certainty, and boundary flags. | |
| citation_metadata | Yes | Bibliographic validation result including DOI verification, publication details, and evidence grade. |