The PAP editorial standard
Pelvic health is full of bad information, quiet embarrassment and guesswork. That's the problem we exist to fix — which means our standard has to be something you can inspect, not something you have to take on faith. This page sets out how our content is sourced, verified, reviewed and corrected, and how we make money.
Last updated August 2026. Questions: info@mypap.com
Source tiering
Not all sources are equal, so we rank them and publish the ranking.
- Professional-society guidance takes primacy. AUGS, AAGL, ACOG, ICS, EAU, ESGE, NAMS and IUGA. Where a society has issued guidance, that guidance sets the position we publish.
- Peer-reviewed literature second. Published studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses — not summaries of summaries.
- Regulatory filings third. FDA, EMA and equivalent agencies for anything involving devices, drugs, approvals or safety.
- Trade press for signal, never for clinical claims. Industry reporting can tell us where to look. It cannot be the basis of anything we tell a patient.
- We don't rewrite other health blogs. If another site is the only source for a claim, that's a signal the claim isn't ready to publish.
Claim verification
Every clinical statement in a patient-facing or physician-facing piece is matched to at least one primary or society-level source before publication. Not the article that cited the source — the source itself. Statistics are traced to the original study, and we check that the number still says what it is being used to say.
The red-team pass
Before release, a dedicated review checks every claim against society guidance and flags anything that needs rewording, hedging or removal. It is a separate step performed against the finished piece, and its job is to find what the writing got wrong — not to approve it.
Hedge language stays in
"May." "Many." "Varies." Clinical reality is variable, and patient education that overstates certainty is its own kind of harm. Where the evidence is genuinely unsettled we say so rather than picking the tidier answer. A great deal of pelvic health research is thin, and pretending otherwise is misinformation with better manners.
Numbered citations you can check
Our published guides carry numbered citations linking to the underlying society or primary source, so patients, physicians and partners can verify any claim independently rather than trusting us about it.
Versioned and dated
Content is versioned and dated. Corrections are logged in the open on our Corrections page. Nothing is silently updated — if a factual claim changes after publication, the page says so.
Clinical review
Our health content is reviewed by practising clinician consultants. We want to be precise about what that does and doesn't mean, because "medically reviewed" gets used loosely across the internet.
PAP works with a small group of practising clinician consultants who review our health content. We don't attach a named reviewer badge to each individual article — our review happens at the content and topic level rather than as an article-by-article sign-off.
If you want to know who reviewed a specific article, ask us. Email info@mypap.com with the article and we'll tell you which clinician consultant reviewed it and what they practise.
What PAP is not
PAP is health education. It is not medical care, and nothing here is a diagnosis or a treatment plan for you specifically.
We write for a general audience. You are not a general audience — you have a history, a body and a set of circumstances we know nothing about. Please take what you read here to a clinician who can examine you, and use it to ask better questions rather than to replace the appointment.
Our full legal terms are in the Disclaimer.
The Physician Finder: how listings work
Physicians pay to appear in the PAP Physician Finder. You should know that before you use it. A directory that patients use to choose a doctor, where doctors pay to be listed, has an obvious conflict built into it. We'd rather name it than let you discover it.
What payment does: membership tier affects how prominently a physician's listing appears — placement, visibility and profile features.
What payment doesn't do: it doesn't affect whether a physician qualifies to be listed at all, and it doesn't buy coverage in our articles. Paying more moves you up the page; it doesn't get you past our checks.
What we check before a listing goes live
- Active state medical licence. We confirm the physician holds a current licence to practise in the state they're listed in.
- State licence search. We run them through the relevant state licensing board's records.
- Claims search. We check malpractice claims history — a step most directories skip.
- Patient reviews. We look at what patients are already saying publicly before we put a physician in front of ours.
A listing is not an endorsement. It means a physician met our checks and chose to be findable by people looking for pelvic health care. It isn't a promise about your outcome, and it isn't a substitute for your own judgement about whether someone is right for you. If something about a listing concerns you, tell us — info@mypap.com.
How PAP makes money
Four ways, all of them disclosed here.
- Physician directory memberships — physicians pay a monthly or annual fee to be listed in the Finder.
- The PAP Briefing — paid subscriptions for clinicians and industry.
- Industry and distributor partnerships — commissioned intelligence, co-branded education and awareness programmes for companies working in pelvic health.
- Merchandise and guides — direct sales through our shop.
Where the line sits
Partners can commission work from us. When they do:
- That material is clearly labelled as partner-produced or sponsored, wherever it appears.
- It's held to the same sourcing, verification and red-team standard as everything else. A partner can commission a guide; they can't put a claim in it we can't source.
- It's kept separate from our independent health articles.
What money cannot buy
No advertiser, partner, distributor or directory member can review, approve or influence an independent health article on mypap.com before publication. We don't sell physician access, we don't run sponsored material with predetermined conclusions, and we don't accept paid placement inside our editorial products. If we write about a company we have a financial relationship with, we disclose that relationship in the piece.
PAP-branded content is designed to survive a partner's compliance review the first time. That is the point of the standard — and it is the same standard applied to the article a patient reads at eleven at night.
When we get it wrong
We will get things wrong. Guidance changes, sources get superseded, and sometimes we simply make a mistake.
When that happens we correct it in the open rather than quietly editing the page. How that works — and every correction we've made — is on our Corrections page.
Think we got something wrong? Email info@mypap.com with the article and what you think is inaccurate. If you can point us to a source, even better. We read all of them.