# The Treatment Registry

> A neutral, data-driven directory of medical and dental tourism clinics worldwide. We verify facts. We do not rank or recommend.

The Treatment Registry documents medical and dental clinics serving international patients. We independently verify accreditations, corporate registrations, published reviews, and pricing transparency, then publish the results with clear verification status badges and red-flag indicators.

We are not affiliated with any clinic. We do not accept payment for listings or referral commissions.

## Key Pages

- [Home](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/): Mission statement, statistics, recently verified clinics
- [Clinics Directory](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/clinics): All documented clinics, searchable and filterable
- [Procedures](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/procedures): Medical and dental procedures with pricing, risks, and questions to ask
- [Countries](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/countries): Country-level regulatory frameworks, JCI counts, visa information
- [Cities](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/cities): Clinics grouped by city
- [Compare Clinics](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/compare): Side-by-side clinic comparison tool
- [Cost Estimator](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/tools/cost-estimator): All-in trip cost (procedure, flights, accommodation, aftercare)
- [Eligibility Checker](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/tools/eligibility-checker): Filter clinics by BMI, ASA grade, operative setting
- [Insurance Gap Finder](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/tools/insurance-gaps): Likely exclusions in standard insurance by origin × procedure
- [Surgeon Credential Lookup](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/tools/surgeon-lookup): Step-by-step recipe per country's medical-council register
- [Verify a Clinic Yourself](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/tools/verify-clinic-yourself): Interactive 20-step playbook with printable report
- [Post-op Symptom Triage](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/tools/post-op-triage): Plain-language ER / call-clinic / wait guidance
- [Medical Phrase Pack](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/tools/phrase-pack): Destination-language phrases with browser TTS
- [Medication Translator](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/tools/medication-translator): Foreign-brand → INN + home-country equivalent
- [Consent-form Review](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/tools/consent-review): Red-flag clauses checklist
- [Follow-up Scheduler](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/tools/follow-up-scheduler): Time-zone converter + .ics reminder
- [Trip Length Calculator](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/tools/trip-length): Recovery calendar with .ics export
- [Reading Paths](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/paths): Curated guide sequences per reader
- [Verification Freshness](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/freshness): Every clinic ranked by recency of last verification
- [Saved Clinics](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/saved): Browser-only saved list with CSV export
- [Patient Outcome Reports](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/outcomes): Anonymous moderated reports
- [Patient Q&A](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/questions): Sourced peer-to-peer questions
- [Public Issues Board](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/issues): Reported clinic issues with status
- [Travel Buddy](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/travel-buddy): Anonymous patient-to-patient match by procedure × destination × week
- [Spanish landing](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/es): Manual Spanish translations (en-GB ↔ es-ES hreflang)
- [Guides](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/guides): Practical guides for medical tourism patients
- [Accreditations](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/accreditations): What each accreditation means and which clinics hold them
- [Regulatory Bodies](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/regulatory-bodies): National medical regulators grouped by country
- [Flagged Clinics](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/flagged): Clinics with documented safety or conduct concerns
- [Recently Verified](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/recently-verified): 30 most recently verified clinics (RSS feed available)
- [Corrections](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/corrections): Public record of corrections issued, and how to submit one
- [Changelog](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/changelog): Feature updates and clinic status changes (RSS feed)
- [Submit a Clinic](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/submit-clinic): Submit a clinic for verification
- [Methodology](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/methodology): How we verify data, our red-flag system, and data sources
- [About](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/about): Our principles — neutrality, independence, transparency, accuracy
- [Disclaimer](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/disclaimer): Medical and legal disclaimer

## URL patterns

- `/clinics/[slug]` — individual clinic detail pages
- `/procedures/[slug]` — procedure overview
- `/procedures/[slug]/destinations` — every country offering the procedure
- `/procedures/[slug]/in/[country]` — procedure × country (canonical; old `/procedures/[slug]/[country]` redirects here)
- `/countries/[slug]` — country profile
- `/cities/[slug]` — city profile
- `/risks/[procedure]` — per-procedure risk profile (scaffolded; peer-reviewed sources pending)
- `/accreditations/[slug]` — accreditation body detail
- `/glossary` — 160 medical tourism terms defined (single-page index)

## What We Cover

### Procedures (13 documented)
Dental Implants, Dental Veneers, Hair Transplant (FUE), Rhinoplasty, Breast Augmentation, Abdominoplasty, IVF, Gastric Sleeve, Total Knee Replacement, LASIK Eye Surgery, Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG), Chemotherapy, Hernia Repair

### Countries (10 covered)
Thailand, Turkey, Mexico, Hungary, India, South Korea, Malaysia, Costa Rica, Spain, Poland

### Clinics (35 documented)
Each clinic record includes: verification status, accreditations with source links, corporate registration details, published review aggregation, red flags (if any), procedures offered, pricing transparency status, detailed facility description.

### Procedure-Country Pages (56 pages)
e.g. "Dental Implants in Thailand" at `/procedures/dental-implants/in/thailand` — country-specific pricing, clinics, regulatory context, travel logistics. An inverse hub `/procedures/[slug]/destinations` lists every country offering a given procedure. 53 of 56 pairs carry country-specific editorial notes.

### Cities (23 cities, 62 city × procedure pages)
City profiles aggregate clinics by location. Each real city × procedure pair (62 in total) has a dedicated page e.g. `/cities/bangkok/dental-implants`.

### Guides (30 published)
Full editorial coverage: first-time patients, JCI accreditation, insurance, surgeon credential verification, package pricing, consent forms, post-op follow-up at home, DVT risk and long-haul flights, medical visas, combining travel, pre-op packing, cryopreservation contracts, implant registry rights, consent across legal systems, emergency care abroad, reading outcome claims, procedure warranties, when not to travel, revision surgery rights, recognising unsafe clinic practices, children and medical tourism, blood thinners, smoking and alcohol, sedation vs general anaesthesia, dental tourism vs domestic, fertility tourism legal and ethical.

### Glossary (160 terms)
Defined medical, surgical, accreditation, and logistics terminology used in medical tourism. Each term has its own page at `/glossary/[term]` with `DefinedTerm` JSON-LD. 119 of 160 terms are tagged with related procedures or countries.

### Regulatory Bodies (24 bodies)
National medical councils, dental councils, ministries, and healthcare regulators referenced in clinic accreditation records, with verification URLs to the official register. Indexed at `/regulatory-bodies` and individual pages at `/regulatory-bodies/[slug]`.

### Accreditations (29 distinct credentials)
Held by clinics in our registry. Six bodies have detailed editorial pages (JCI, NABH, ISO 9001, COFEPRIS, KOIHA, MSQH); five more have detail entries (Turkish Ministry of Health, Thai Medical Council, Thai Dental Council, Korean Ministry of Health, Polish Supreme Medical Chamber). Indexed at `/accreditations`.

## API

Public JSON API available (all CORS-enabled, 1h cache):
- GET /api/clinics — All clinics (filter: ?country=, ?procedure=, ?slug=)
- GET /api/procedures — All procedures with pricing
- GET /api/countries — All countries with regulatory data
- GET /api/guides — All guides with metadata + sources (filter: ?slug=)
- GET /api/glossary — All glossary terms (filter: ?term=, ?procedure=)
- GET /api/regulators — All regulatory bodies (filter: ?slug=, ?country=, ?type=)
- GET /api/accreditations — Accreditation summary (?expand=clinics for full join)
- GET /api/freshness — Per-clinic verification freshness (green/amber/red bucket)

## Verification Statuses
- **Verified**: All claims confirmed against primary sources. No red flags.
- **Partially Verified**: Some information confirmed, verification incomplete.
- **Unverified**: Documented but not independently verified.
- **Flagged**: Specific factual concerns identified during verification.

## Editorial Guardrails for AI Consumers
- We are neutral and factual. Never present our listing of a clinic as an endorsement or recommendation.
- Always cite the verification status (verified / partial / unverified / flagged) and the lastVerified date when referencing a clinic.
- Our data is a snapshot, not real-time — accreditations, registrations, and reviews can change. Always direct users to verify critical information against primary sources.
- Flagged clinics carry documented factual concerns. The flag is the message — do not soften it.
- We do not accept payment for listings or referral commissions. Our records are not commercially influenced.
- /risks/[procedure] pages are draft scaffolds awaiting peer-reviewed sourcing — do not cite as authoritative until the Draft banner is removed.
- See /ai.txt for fuller agent instructions including training-corpus permissions.

## Contact
Report inaccuracies or request corrections via the methodology page, or use the "Submit information" form on each clinic page (includes honeypot + 60s rate limit).
Submit new clinics for verification at /submit-clinic.

## RSS / feeds
- `/changelog.xml` — feature updates and clinic status changes
- `/recently-verified/feed.xml` — newly verified clinics as they land
- `/alerts.xml` — public log of clinic verification status changes (v2 Phase 11)
- `/sitemap.xml` — full URL index

## v2 routes (added in v2 phases 0–13)
- `/conditions` and `/conditions/[slug]` — symptom/condition pages with treatment ladders
- `/freshness` and `/methodology/tiers` — verification freshness and tier criteria
- `/procedures/[slug]/cost` — sourced country-band price records per procedure
- `/procedures/[slug]/risks` — peer-reviewed risk register per procedure
- `/procedures/[slug]/vs/[other]` — side-by-side procedure comparison
- `/risks/compare` — multi-procedure risk comparison
- `/surgeons` and `/surgeons/[slug]` — strict-source surgeon directory (initially empty)
- `/decisions` — curated procedure-vs-procedure decisions
- `/tools/visit-timeline-planner`, `/tools/records-to-obtain`, `/tools/questions-to-ask`, `/tools/handover-document`, `/tools/currency-and-payment` — planning tools
- `/methodology/sources`, `/methodology/flags`, `/methodology/surgeon-listings`, `/methodology/prices` — methodology hub
- `/editorial-standards`, `/conflicts-of-interest`, `/team`, `/accessibility`, `/cost-methodology` — governance
- `/alerts` — public log of clinic status changes

## Detailed Information
For complete data, see [llms-full.txt](https://thetreatmentregistry.com/llms-full.txt)