Terms of Service

01What this service is

Applied Evidence is an index of published clinical literature with automatically generated plain-language summaries, for physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, nurses, students and researchers.

Summaries are generated by software reading the full article — methods, results, tables, discussion, and the authors’ funding and conflict-of-interest declarations — without clinical review before publication. A paper we cannot read in full is left out rather than summarised from its abstract, which is why this index is smaller than it could be. How that works, and what it cannot do, is set out on the summaries page — read it before relying on anything here.

02Who may use it

You must be at least 18. You are responsible for what happens under your account, including keeping your password to yourself. Accounts are for one person; do not share credentials.

03How you may use it

You agree not to:

• Scrape, bulk-download, or systematically copy summaries or the corpus.
• Republish or resell summaries, or present them as your own work or as reviewed content.
• Enter identifiable patient information anywhere in the service.
• Use it to provide medical advice to anyone who believes it came from a person.
• Attempt to bypass access limits, or to reach another account's data.

Reasonable professional use — reading, saving, quoting a summary with a link to its source, sharing a paper with a colleague — is exactly what this is for.

04Whose work the papers are

The underlying research belongs to its authors and publishers. Applied Evidence indexes bibliographic records and abstracts from PubMed, a service of the United States National Library of Medicine, and links to the source for every paper. Copyright in each article remains with its rights-holders, and nothing here grants you a licence to it.

The summaries themselves, and the site, belong to the operator. If you believe something here infringes your rights, tell us through the contact form at appliedevidence.com/contact and it will be dealt with promptly.

05Free and paid accounts

Searching, reading the short summary on any paper, following the link to the source, and keeping a library with private notes are free and unlimited. A free account may open three full summaries — the methods, results, limitations and discipline reading — each calendar month. Pro removes that limit.

The trial. Pro begins with 30 days free. Your card is taken at checkout and nothing is charged during those thirty days. Cancel any time before the month is up and you pay nothing at all; if you do not, the first $1 is taken on the date shown in your account — you are never charged by surprise.

Billing and cancelling. After the trial, Pro renews monthly or annually at the price shown when you subscribed, until cancelled. Cancel any time from Account → Manage billing; access continues to the end of the period already paid for. Because Applied Evidence is sold through Stripe, Stripe is the seller of record and handles any sales tax or VAT.

Refunds. The subscription is a dollar a month and can be cancelled before any charge. If you are charged and believe you should not have been, write to the contact form at appliedevidence.com/contact and it will be refunded.

Prices may change, but not for a period you have already paid for, and never without notice before the next renewal.

06No warranty

The service is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, there is no warranty of any kind — no warranty that a summary is accurate, complete, current or free of material error, none of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement, and no guarantee that the service will be available or uninterrupted.

Where a summary and its source disagree, the source governs.

07Limitation of liability

You use Applied Evidence entirely at your own risk. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, neither Applied Evidence nor the individual who operates it is liable to you for any loss or damage of any kind arising from your use of, or reliance on, this service: no direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, and nothing for any patient outcome, lost practice income, regulatory or disciplinary action, or claim by anyone else. By using the service you release both from every such claim.

Where the law does not allow liability to be excluded entirely, total liability for direct damages is limited to the greater of the fees you paid in the twelve months before the claim, or ten United States dollars.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or liabilities. Where that is so, the exclusions above apply only as far as that law permits, and nothing here limits liability for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

08Indemnity

You agree to indemnify Applied Evidence and the individual who operates it against third-party claims arising from your clinical use of information obtained here, from your breach of these terms, or from your entry of protected health information into the service.

09Ending it

You may delete your account at any time from Account → Delete account, which is immediate and permanent. The operator may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, or is being used to scrape or resell the corpus, and will refund any unused paid period when doing so.

10Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and of the state in which the operator resides, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

Before anything formal, get in touch through the contact form at appliedevidence.com/contact. Most things are settled that way. If a dispute cannot be resolved that way, it is resolved by final and binding individual arbitration in the United States, and you and the operator each waive a jury trial and any class, collective or representative proceeding.

Either of us may still bring an individual claim in small claims court. Nothing in this section limits rights that cannot lawfully be waived where you live — if you are a consumer in a country whose law gives you the right to bring a claim in your local courts, that right is unaffected.

11Changes to these terms

If these terms change materially, the change will be shown in the product before it takes effect, and continuing to use the service after that is acceptance. If you do not accept a change, delete your account and any unused paid period will be refunded.

The last change was published on 30 September 2026. It added nurses to the people the service is for and rewrote the limitation of liability. It applies at once to accounts created from that date, and to earlier accounts from 14 October 2026.