How This Textbook Is Built
AI supports the editorial workflow. Human experts make publication decisions.
Workflow overview
The goal is to keep an educational vascular-surgery reference current without removing human editorial control. AI is used for discovery, drafting, and organization. Human editors review what is published.
Step-by-step process
Evidence discovery
The system runs literature searches and quality filters to find potentially relevant new evidence for specific textbook sections.
AI-assisted drafting
AI can draft update proposals with citation context. At this stage, proposals are candidates only. They are not published textbook content.
Human editorial review
Qualified human editors review each proposed change and decide to approve, reject, or request revision. Nothing is published automatically.
Publication and traceability
Only approved updates are published. Version history, update records, and dispute/feedback channels support correction and accountability.
Scope limits (important)
- • AI assists editorial work; human editors control publication decisions.
- • This site is educational/reference only.
- • It is not intended to diagnose, monitor, predict, prognose, treat, or alleviate disease.
- • It does not provide patient-specific clinical decision support.
- • Clinically relevant information should be verified against primary sources and current guidelines.
Responsible editorial party
Editorial responsibility for this edition rests with Tal M. Hörer MD, PhD and David T. McGreevy MD, PhD.
- Tal M. Hörer MD, PhD
- David T. McGreevy MD, PhD
Editorial base: Örebro University Hospital (USÖ), Sweden.
Editorial contact: tal.horer@regionorebrolan.se. At present, this site does not name a separate publisher or company behind the publication. For this edition, the editors listed above are the named responsible contacts.