By the Regenerative Evidence Guide Team A surrogate outcome is a lab value, scan, or biomarker used as a stand-in for a real health result. A patient outcome is the change a person actually lives — …
Conflicts of Interest in Regenerative-Medicine Research: What Readers Can Check
By the Regenerative Evidence Guide Team What Does a Conflict of Interest Mean in a Research Study? A conflict-of-interest disclosure is a short statement, usually near the end of a published study, …
Peer Review, Preprints, and Press Releases: Reading Research Claims Carefully
By the Regenerative Evidence Guide Team What Do Peer Review, Preprints, and Press Releases Mean? Peer review, preprints, and press releases are three different stages of a research claim's life, each …
Evidence Hierarchy in Regenerative Medicine: Why One Study Is Not the Whole Answer
By the Regenerative Evidence Guide Team What Is the Evidence Hierarchy in Regenerative Medicine? The evidence hierarchy ranks research by how much confidence it can support: case reports at the …
Regenerative Medicine Terms Explained: Cells, Tissues, and Biological Products
By the Regenerative Evidence Guide Team Regenerative medicine terms like "stem cells," "tissues," and "biological products" are specific regulatory categories, not proof that a treatment works. A stem …
Systematic Reviews in Regenerative Medicine: What They Can—and Cannot—Tell You
By the Regenerative Evidence Guide Team What Is a Systematic Review in Regenerative Medicine? A systematic review in regenerative medicine gathers every relevant study on one question and uses a …