How RP Check is built.
The rule the site is built around is simple: every claim on every page names the source it came from. When you read a line on a medication page, you can click straight through to the authoritative document it was drawn from — a TGA Product Information leaflet, a PBS schedule entry, the WHO ATC index, an Act of parliament, a Senior Practitioner authorisation framework. RP Check does not synthesise content from training knowledge; it extracts, paraphrases where flagged, and cites.
The three verification states
Every individual claim on a page carries one of three small indicators next to its source citation. They are designed to be honest about provenance — to tell you, at a glance, how tightly the displayed text is tied to the source it cites.
- ●Verbatim quoted (green). The displayed text is the exact text from the cited source, extracted programmatically from a freshly-fetched document. This is the strongest provenance the site offers, and it is what you should rely on when a clinically critical detail matters.
- ✓Source-verified (green tick). The citation URL is current and has been verified, but the displayed text was paraphrased from the source rather than quoted verbatim — for example, an editorial summary that draws together several cited facts, or a label applied to a value that the source presents in a less readable form.
- ⚠Awaiting source verification (amber). The content is editorial paraphrase that has not yet cleared a human-review check. It remains readable for context, but should be treated as draft material — and verified directly against the cited source — until the dot turns green.
Where the data comes from
Each medication page is built by fetching live content from a handful of authoritative sources at the time you visit, parsing the relevant sections, and laying them out beside citation chips. The full register is on the Sources page; the working shortlist is:
- 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).
Sources are checked on every visit
Substance pages are not pre-baked snapshots. When you open a page — and again whenever the cached version reaches the end of its freshness window — RP Check fetches the live source documents, parses them, and rebuilds the page from the freshly-extracted content. The citation chip you click is always pointing at material that has been read recently.
Freshness windows vary with how quickly a source typically changes: 30 days for the PBS schedule, 90 days for TGA Product Information, up to a year for slower-moving references such as the WHO ATC index. If a schedule classification, indication, or contraindication changes at source, the next visit picks it up automatically.
A note on scope
RP Check is informational. It does not replace a prescriber's clinical judgement, an authorised Behaviour Support Plan, or the practitioner-of-record's scope of practice. It is best used as a starting point for chemical-restraint review — a place to surface what the framework and the source documents say — with the cited primary sources consulted directly before any clinically significant fact is acted on.