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Sympify helps you explore health information. It does not diagnose.
In an emergency, do not use Sympify
Contact your local emergency services immediately. Seek urgent care for severe pain, trouble breathing, chest pain, signs of stroke, a rapidly spreading infection, a severe allergic reaction, or any other emergency.
What this means in practice
- Sympify is provided for general educational and informational purposes only.
- Sympify does not provide medical advice.
- Sympify does not provide a diagnosis. Nothing it shows you is a diagnosis, and results should not be read as one.
- Sympify does not provide treatment guidance.
- Sympify does not replace physical examination, laboratory or imaging tests, a full medical history, or a clinician's judgement. It has access to none of those things.
- Do not delay professional care because of anything Sympify shows you, and do not disregard advice you have been given by a clinician.
- Sympify is not for emergencies.
About results and match percentages
Sympify presents results in bands expressed as percentages. That number describes how much of the symptom information you entered overlaps with the symptoms recorded for a condition in public reference material. It is not the probability that you have the condition, and it is not a confidence level, a calibrated likelihood or a clinical risk score.
A condition can rank highly simply because it shares several common symptoms with what you described. Common symptoms are shared by many conditions — which is exactly why diagnosis is done by a clinician and not by a ranking.
Results may be incomplete or wrong, and a relevant condition may not appear at all. Sympify has not been clinically validated and does not claim to improve diagnostic accuracy.
Uploaded photographs and test results
Sympify does not diagnose from images. Where you attach a photograph or a lab or test result, Sympify organizes the details you provide about it. It performs no visual interpretation and no text extraction, reads no laboratory values, and nothing you upload changes how conditions are ranked. Always confirm test values against the original report from the laboratory or clinician who issued it.
Experimental and research features
Some parts of Sympify are research or preview features. They are not clinical decision tools and must not be used as such unless and until they have been validated for that purpose — which none of them currently have been.
For healthcare professionals
A Sympify report is a structured account of what a patient reports experiencing, alongside conditions associated with those symptoms in public reference material. Treat it as patient-provided context, in the same way you would treat notes a patient wrote down before the visit. Sympify is not clinical decision support, has not been clinically validated, and its scores are not calibrated probabilities.
Where the information comes from
Condition and symptom descriptions come from publicly available medical reference material, which Sympify links out to so you can read the original source. Sympify does not author medical content. Reference material can be incomplete or out of date, and we are not responsible for errors in it.