Appointment question planner
Select the questions that matter to your conversation and print a short agenda.
Open toolSCIENCE, WITH THE CONTEXT LEFT INAn unfamiliar treatment.
An unfamiliar treatment.
A clearer conversation.
Understand maggot debridement therapy, follow the original evidence, and prepare useful questions for your care team.
An independent education project. Not a clinic, product seller, or treatment referral service.
USE SOMETHING, NOT JUST READ SOMETHING
All reader tools Make your next conversation more useful.
Three browser-only tools. No account, health profile, or email address required.
Care enquiry checklist
Clarify availability, referrals and billing before assuming a service is available.
Open toolEvidence reading notebook
Keep the population, comparison, measured outcome and limitations in separate fields.
Open toolTHE IMPORTANT DISTINCTION
Cleaning a wound and healing a wound are different outcomes.
When a headline says a treatment “works,” ask what the study measured. Our reading guides separate removal of dead tissue from complete healing, comfort, costs, and other outcomes.
Learn to read the endpoints01
Identify the exact claim.
A claim about one endpoint is not a promise about another.
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Open the original record.
Check the study population, comparison and follow-up.
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Keep the uncertainty.
Ask your clinician how the evidence fits your situation.
START WITH YOUR QUESTION
Browse the learning library A focused reading path.
Explanations and questions, not instructions for treating a wound.
The essentials
Medical larvae versus ordinary maggots: check the product, not the picture
A practical source and product-identity checklist, with clear boundaries against home collection, preparation, or treatment.
Read the resourcePatient guide
Questions to take to your clinician—and how to use the answers
A practical, printable conversation framework with follow-up questions, responsibility checks, and a five-line appointment recap.
Read the resourcePatient guide
The MDT cost conversation: a worksheet for estimates and unanswered questions
Identify the service, billing entities, included items, coverage questions, and practical costs without relying on invented prices or billing codes.
Read the resourceA small, annotated evidence collection.
Read the question a study addressed, what its public record reports, and what that record cannot establish. This is a selected reading collection—not a systematic review or a continuously updated clinical database.
Ask about availability before making plans.
Our care-resources page explains how to make a useful enquiry and links to an established outside referral resource. It does not promise that a particular clinician offers MDT.
Care enquiry resourcesTrust should be inspectable.
Read our scope, source-selection method, funding disclosures and corrections process. A source check is not the same as independent medical review.