Article type
Match claim to study design. Lived experience helps explain meaning and harms. Trials help with certain interventions. Reviews summarize patterns. Policy guidance explains obligations.
How to Research
A public method lab for asking better questions.
Research is not just collecting links. This page helps readers define the question, choose source routes, screen results, inspect methods, separate evidence from rights, and write careful summaries.
Question builder
Use PICO for intervention/clinical questions, PECO for exposure/association questions, and PICo for qualitative/lived-experience questions.
Screening checklist
- Is the source an article, review, guideline, public report, law, preprint, or opinion?
- Does the population match the people being discussed?
- Does the setting match the setting where ANCHOR would use the claim?
- Does the source show benefits, harms, limits, and uncertainty?
- Is the full text available legally?
- Can the claim be explained plainly without exaggerating?
Limits first
Every public summary needs “what this does not prove.” This prevents research from becoming marketing or misinformation.
Rights separately
ADA, IDEA, Medicaid, FERPA, HIPAA, and state policy questions are not the same as clinical evidence questions. The portal keeps both visible.