CCS Content Management / Editorial Review

CCS Content Management

Supporting Management is a team of professionals that aggregate and synthesize data on complementary, integrative, and alternative therapies. Staffing includes researchers, editors, writers and technology experts that oversee the development of, and updates to, CCS databases and website customization.

CCS controls its data products through an established process of identifying relevant clinical research, peer review of the research and its application across nutritional ingredients and monographs contained in the databases. Regardless of the content, the editorial review process is an important part of publishing information. The material that CCS publishes is written by writers with varying scientific and medical backgrounds and is extracted from sources with varying degrees of scientific and medical respect. For this reason, CCS developed an editorial review process that not only streamlines the content development process, but also ensures the validity and timeliness of data review and verification. CCS's content is always first created in a format suitable for use by healthcare professionals and then drafted into the trade/consumer version.

Content is supported by approximately 80% primary references and 20% secondary, and tertiary references are used minimally and only as necessary. Dietary supplement information contained within our material represents data that has been published in studies. The occasional information that is historical or anecdotal in nature is clearly noted and intended only as such. Dosage information is determined from the scientific/medical evaluations that have been completed on these dietary supplements. Thus, CCS's dosage information may or may not reflect the recommendations of numerous product manufacturers. The goal has been to focus all efforts on developing the highest quality, unbiased content available for professionals, trade members and consumers.