Scope of review
Board members review content within their own scope of practice, and content is routed to a reviewer qualified in that field. Team members who are not physicians — physiotherapists, nurses and technicians — work within their own licensed field and do not sign off diagnostic criteria, treatment indications or medicine recommendations.
Legal counsel reviews our content for regulatory and consumer-protection compliance. That is an editorial function, not a clinical one, and it is never presented as medical review.
What a review is not
A review confirms that the content was accurate and responsibly framed on the date of the review. It is not a consultation, not a diagnosis, and not a treatment recommendation for you. Those require a doctor who has examined your case and seen your records.
Being listed on this page does not mean a board member will be your treating clinician. Board members review published content; your care is arranged separately by our medical coordination team.
Independence
Clinical review verdicts belong to the reviewing clinician. A reviewer may approve content, require changes, or reject it, and that decision is not overridden for commercial reasons. Where a reviewer requires a change we cannot make, the content is not published.
Reviewers are not asked to approve claims about treatment outcomes, success rates or comparisons with other providers. Those are handled separately under our Editorial Policy and are not part of a clinical review.
Who operates this website, and why it matters
Acıbadem International is operated by DGS Sağlık Turizm A.Ş., the international-patient partner of Acıbadem Healthcare Group. Some members of our editorial and review team are employed by DGS Sağlık Turizm A.Ş. rather than by Acıbadem Healthcare Group, and one of our reviewing physicians is its founder.
We regard this as a relationship to declare rather than conceal. You are entitled to know that the organisation publishing this content has a commercial interest in international patients choosing treatment in Türkiye — and to weigh what you read accordingly.
How members are appointed
Members are proposed by the editorial team and appointed in agreement with clinical leadership. Each member’s card states the qualification they hold, so you can check it against the institution that issued it. Where we cannot confirm a qualification, the person is not listed here as a reviewer.
How often reviewed content is re-checked
Every reviewed page shows the date of its review, so you can judge for yourself how current it is. We return a page to review when new clinical guidance is published on the topic, when a reader reports a possible error, or when we make a substantive update to the page.
If you think we got something wrong
Write to [email protected] with the page address and a short description of what you believe is inaccurate, outdated or misleading. Reports from clinicians are especially welcome and go directly to medical review.
If we agree the content is wrong, we correct it and return the page to medical review. If we disagree, we will tell you why — differences of clinical opinion within accepted practice are not treated as errors, and where reputable sources genuinely disagree, our content says so.
