This page describes how HakimeRAD Insights is produced. It is written for readers who need to know whether an article can be trusted, and for contributors who need to know what the publication expects of them.

Authorship

Every article names its author. There are two bylines:

  • HakimeRAD Editorial — written by the editorial team. These articles describe published guidance, protocols and operational practice. They are not reports of individual patient cases.
  • A named clinician — written by that person, with their role and professional profile linked from the article.

A byline is a factual statement. It is never assigned to a person who did not write the piece, and it is not used to imply clinical review that did not happen.

How a draft becomes an article

Content moves through five states, and the state is recorded in the article's own metadata:

  1. Draft — being written. Not public, not indexable.
  2. In review — submitted by the author. A reviewer checks the clinical claims, the sources and the scope.
  3. Approved — the reviewer has signed off. Still not public.
  4. Published — live, listed on the insights index, included in the sitemap and the RSS feed.
  5. Archived — withdrawn from the index without deleting the URL, so existing links keep working.

A published article can only be reached from an approved state. Publishing is a separate permission from writing or reviewing, and every state change is written to an append-only audit log with the person, the time and the previous state.

What a reviewer line means

When an article carries a line saying it was clinically reviewed, that means a named clinician read the piece before publication and is recorded against it, with the date of review. If no reviewer is recorded, the article says so plainly rather than leaving the reader to assume one exists.

Review is a check on accuracy and scope. It is not a guarantee of completeness, and it does not make an article a substitute for a report on a specific patient.

Sources and figures

Every quantitative claim carries its source and year in the text. Where a figure is derived — a per-million rate calculated from a published ratio, for example — the derivation is shown next to the published value so a reader can check the arithmetic.

Where published sources disagree or measure different populations, the article says which population it is counting. Averages are presented as averages, not as descriptions of a single facility's workload.

Corrections and updates

  • Substantive corrections are noted at the foot of the article with the date and what changed. The original wording is not silently replaced.
  • Small fixes — typography, a broken link, a clarified sentence that does not change the meaning — are made without a correction note, and the article's last-updated date changes.
  • Withdrawn articles are archived rather than deleted. The URL remains, the page states that the article was withdrawn, and the reason is recorded.

If you believe an article is wrong, write to enquiry@hakimerad.com with the article URL and the specific claim. Corrections are handled by the editorial team, not by the author alone.

Disclosure

  • Commercial interest. HakimeRAD Teleradiology is a commercial service. Articles about teleradiology, reporting practice or procurement are written in that context, and the site states the relationship on every page rather than asking a reader to infer it.
  • Tools. Where a workflow depends on software, the article names the category of tool and the limitation that matters clinically. It does not present a vendor's accuracy claim as an independent finding.
  • Patient information. No patient images, reports or identifiable patient information are published here. Illustrative cases are labelled as composites, and the details that could identify a person are removed.
  • Sponsorship. Sponsored content is not accepted. If that changes, sponsored articles will be labelled at the top of the page and excluded from clinical review claims.

Privacy of readers

The site does not require an account to read an article. The newsletter form is optional, and its destination and purpose are stated next to the form. Analytics, where enabled, is configured to measure page performance rather than to build a profile of an individual reader. The privacy notice sets out what is collected and how to ask for it to be removed.

Contact

Editorial enquiries, corrections and review requests: enquiry@hakimerad.com. Institutional enquiries about the reporting service belong on the contact page, not in the editorial inbox.