Evidence: asking and reading the answer

Ask a clinical question from Evidence, in the rail, and Rebrief answers with a cited response you can read right away — tailored to the patient in front of you when it can be.

Where your questions live

Evidence is the room that keeps your questions. Right next to it, Tasks keeps a different kind of chat: the moment what you ask turns into work inside your practice software, that chat moves to Tasks and stays there — so even a question you ask afterward, inside that same chat, stays in Tasks too.

Evidence and Tasks are really the same surface, with two rooms. The only difference is which chats each one keeps, and what the box at the bottom is asking you for.

• Start a chat any time with the New chat button.
• Find a past chat in the list down the left — newest first, and searchable. You can pin the ones you use often, rename them, and delete the ones you don't need.

How to read an answer

An answer can arrive in several pieces. Here's the order they appear in:

1. Instant answer. For some questions, a quick first take lands almost immediately, with a note that Rebrief is still researching the full, cited answer. Treat it as a first impression, not the final word.
2. "Tailored to this patient." If this line appears above the answer, it means Rebrief wrote the answer knowing about today's appointment — see below for what that covers.
3. Key points. A short box of bullets sits above the full answer. If you read nothing else, read this.
4. The answer. The full, detailed answer follows. Small numbered citation chips appear in the text — click one to jump to (and light up) the source card it came from.
5. Source cards. The sources behind the answer are listed underneath it.
6. Ask a follow up. Rebrief suggests up to three questions you might ask next. Click one and it's asked right there, in the same chat.

What "tailored to this patient" means

While an appointment is open, a clinical question is answered knowing today's note, what's been said in the appointment so far, and what's been charted — so the answer is about the patient in front of you, not a textbook case. When that's true, the answer says so.

Two kinds of questions work differently:

• Ask about something in the patient's own record, and the answer is drawn from their past notes instead of the live appointment.
• Ask a practice question — a price, a code, a supplier — and Rebrief searches the open web. Those questions never carry any detail about the appointment.

Tip: No "Tailored to this patient" line means the answer wasn't written with today's appointment in mind — read it as general guidance, not as specific to the patient you're seeing.

Note: Evidence keeps your question-and-answer chats. If what you asked turned into work in your practice software, look for that chat under Tasks instead.