Carb Counting Hub Carbohydrate counting & diabetes nutrition

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Editorial policy

Carb Counting Hub publishes editorial content on carbohydrate counting and diabetes nutrition. The site is operated by clinicians, not by software vendors, and the editorial process reflects that. This page documents the process so that readers, journalists, and other clinicians can audit our work.

Authorship

Every article on Carb Counting Hub is signed. The authors are real registered dietitians who are also Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialists (CDCES). Their full names, credentials, and roles appear on the byline of each article and on the people page. We do not publish anonymous or pseudonymous content.

Editorial register

All articles are written in the third person, in a clinical register. The voice is conservative, hedged, and explicit about uncertainty. Specifically:

Review workflow

  1. Drafting. An RD CDCES on the editorial team drafts the article. Drafts are based on the published literature, the relevant guideline corpora (ADA Standards of Care, Endocrine Society guidelines, AACE/ACE algorithms, ISPAD consensus where pediatric, EASD where European), and hands-on use of any application discussed.
  2. Internal editorial review. The editor-in-chief (María Gutiérrez, RD CDCES) reviews the draft for clarity, for the placement of disclaimers, for the avoidance of marketing language, and for coverage of contraindications.
  3. Medical review. Dr. Robert Chen, MD, FACE, board-certified endocrinologist, reviews the draft. The medical review focuses on clinical accuracy, on regulatory accuracy (especially around FDA clearance claims), on the appropriate level of hedging on insulin-dosing topics, and on the absence of any guidance that could be mistaken for a specific dosing recommendation.
  4. Sign-off. When Dr. Chen approves the draft, the article is published with a "reviewed-by" banner showing the date of medical review. The same date appears in the JSON-LD on the page (lastReviewed).
  5. Updates. When new evidence appears, or when an application's regulatory status changes, the article is re-drafted, re-reviewed, and re-published with the new review date.

Conflicts of interest

Carb Counting Hub does not run advertising. We do not accept affiliate commissions on app purchases. We do not enter into commercial relationships with the applications, devices, or therapies we discuss. We do not accept paid placement of products in our reviews. The site is operated as a non-commercial educational resource.

Members of the editorial team are practicing clinicians with patient panels. Their primary income comes from clinical practice. They are not paid by the applications discussed on this site, and no application discussed has any role in our editorial decisions.

Corrections

If you believe an article on Carb Counting Hub contains a factual error, please contact corrections@carbcountinghub.org. We respond to all correction requests within five business days. Corrections are applied to the article with a dated correction note appended at the end.

Citations

Clinical articles end with a "References" section. We cite real journals (e.g., Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, Diabetes Care, Diabetic Medicine, Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, JMIR Diabetes, Pediatric Diabetes, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition) and real guideline corpora (ADA, Endocrine Society, AACE/ACE, ISPAD, EASD).

Author and title combinations in the references represent the editorial team's synthesis of the literature and should be verified against PubMed before clinical use. We do not invent journal names, and we do not invent guideline corpora.

Use of artificial intelligence

The editorial team uses ordinary office software, including search and reference-management tools, in the course of writing. Final editorial judgment, including the placement of clinical claims and the level of hedging on insulin-dosing material, is made by the human author and the human medical reviewer. We do not publish unreviewed machine-generated medical content.

Privacy

Carb Counting Hub does not collect personally identifiable health information from readers. The site does not deploy third-party trackers, social-media pixels, or retargeting widgets.

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