How is the Medical Knowledge Base validated?

Our database is tested by carrying out assessments on thousands of well-documented clinical cases. Get to know the entire testing process.

We know that access to verified medical information is key to improving how people across the world use medical services. 

We rely on respected, proven, and reliable sources, such as well-established medical journals (British Medical Journal Best Practice, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, ClinicalKey Medical Education, and UpToDate), guidelines, and publications from specialized agencies and organizations operating globally (WHO, CDC), as well as numerous medical papers with a high impact factor (NEJM, The Lancet).

Our database is tested by carrying out assessments on thousands of well-documented clinical cases. These are carefully curated by our Medical Team and undergo regular evaluation following rigorous and well-established procedures to ensure our engine’s accuracy. 

Testing process

Infermedica’s Inference Engine is tested by carrying out assessments on thousands of well-documented clinical cases. How does it work?

  • We send requests to our API and receive the results. You can access the test cases list and results for our acceptance test cases ->
  • The accuracy is confirmed when the Inference Engine ranks the condition within the top 3 or top 5 ranking positions - which one is used depends on the complexity of the case.
  • Infermedica’s solutions are also evaluated by external organizations to ensure safety and accuracy. For more evidence on the quality of our platform, please read these peer-reviewed studies.

Our testing model imitates the behavior of our API after sending a request with the symptoms from the test case. This means you can experience our engine accuracy firsthand by downloading the JSON file and testing our engine on infermedica.com.

Please visit our Developer Portal to learn more about our content development processes →


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