medical-fact-checklisted

# Medical Fact-Check Skill Comprehensive critical appraisal and fact-checking for medical information, producing a structured report. > **Scope.** This is a pre-publication aid for writers, editors, and researchers — **not clinical decision support.** It evaluates how medical *content* is written and sourced; it does not diagnose, treat, or replace professional medical judgment. > **Reference files.** This skill bundles three reference files. Read them with paths > relative to this skill's directory: `references/checklist.md`, `references/evidence-levels.md`, > and `templates/report-template.md`. Depending on how the skill was installed, that > directory is `~/.claude/skills/medical-fact-check/` (manual copy) or > `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/medical-fact-check/` (installed as the Evidentia plugin). > > **Deterministic citation engine.** When checking citations (Step 4), prefer the bundled > `evidentia` engine over verifying each DOI by hand. If `npx evidentia` is available, it > resolves every DOI/PMID against CrossRef, PubMed, and OpenAlex and returns the exact 4-tier > classification this skill uses — deterministically, with no risk of the model itself > misremembering a paper. See **Step 4** for how to call it. ## Overview This skill evaluates medical information across **15 criteria** — evidence quality, citation accuracy, statistical interpretation, ethical considerations, and more — then generates a structured Markdown report with an overall **A–F score** and act