Every claim names
its source.
That's the rule the site is built around. When you see a fact on a medication page, you can click straight through to the authoritative document it came from — TGA Product Information, PBS, the WHO ATC Index, an Act of parliament, a Senior Practitioner authorisation framework, whatever the source is. We don't synthesise. We extract and cite.
The three verification states
Every individual claim on a page carries one of three small indicators next to its source citation:
- ●Verbatim quoted (green). The displayed text is the exact text from the cited source, extracted programmatically from a freshly-fetched document. The strongest provenance.
- ✓Source-verified (green tick). The citation URL is current and verified, but the displayed text was paraphrased from the source rather than quoted verbatim — for example, an editorial summary that draws from several cited facts.
- ⚠Awaiting source verification (amber).The content is editorial paraphrase that hasn't yet cleared a verification check. You can still read it, but treat it as draft material until the dot turns green.
Where the data comes from
Each medication page is built by fetching live content from authoritative sources at the time you visit, parsing the relevant sections, and laying them out with citation chips. The full source list is on the Sources page. The shortlist:
- TGA Product Information — mechanism, half-life, indications, adverse effects, contraindications.
- WHO ATC Index — substance class and ATC code.
- TGA Poisons Standard (SUSMP) — schedule.
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) — subsidised indications and clinical criteria.
- State Senior Practitioner authorities — one per Australian state and territory; restrictive-practice authorisation framework.
- State legislation — Disability Acts and equivalent statutes that establish the framework.
- Commonwealth: NDIS Act 2013, NDIS Rules 2018, NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, ACSQHC Psychotropic Medicines Clinical Care Standard — the federal framework.
- Wikipedia — Tier 4 fallback for substances without TGA Product Information (vitamins, supplements, over-the-counter).
How AI is used (and how it isn't)
AI plays a fenced role: locating verbatim quotes inside freshly-fetched source documents, and writing plain-language summaries of cited content for the family/guardian and prescriber audiences. AI is never used to synthesise medical claims from training knowledge.
Audience summaries pass a grounded-verification step before they're marked source-verified: each claim in the summary is mapped to a specific source fact in the page's cited Tier 1 / 2 set. Claims that don't map are flagged for human review and stay amber until reviewed.
Why pages take a moment to load on first visit
The first time anyone visits a substance page, RP Check fetches the live source documents, parses them, runs the extractions, and stores the results so subsequent visitors see the page instantly. That first visit takes 30–50 seconds. Subsequent visits load in under a second until the cached facts age out of their freshness window (30–365 days depending on source).
Important: not clinical advice
RP Check is informational only. It doesn't replace a prescriber's clinical judgement, an authorised Behaviour Support Plan, or your scope of practice. Use it as a starting point for chemical-restraint review, then verify against the cited sources before acting.