Evidence & limitations

Clear boundaries are part of the method.

Patient-Side should be judged not only by what it helps people see, but by how well it prevents structured language from masquerading as certainty.

Documented now

A capture → structure → longitudinalize → interpret → measure → handoff → human decision → update lifecycle
A PSLAI audit model for longitudinal integrity
Explicit evidence-state, contradiction, uncertainty, provenance, and burden checks
Purpose-specific framing without changing the underlying claims

Requires validation

Which people and settings benefit from added structure
When structure creates burden, false salience, or exclusion
How professionals use or ignore patient-generated context
Which measures fairly test usability, understanding, decision quality, and burden

Claims not made

Diagnosis, treatment, or standard-of-care determination
Clinically validated outcomes or universal usefulness
Validation of personal medical hypotheses
Clinician replacement or autonomous institutional representation

Noncompensable safeguards

Some failures require a hold—not an average.

Provenance, evidence-state separation, and human authority and safety are critical gates. Strength elsewhere should not cancel a serious failure in one of them.

A reader must be able to distinguish direct observation, patient report, documentary fact, machine inference, working hypothesis, and professional interpretation—and preserve a way back to the source.

See the governed material set