Keep the source in sight.
Why references belong beside an answer, and why opening them should feel like part of the same thought.
An answer with somewhere to go
A useful answer should make its next step clear. Sometimes that means asking a more specific question. Sometimes it means opening the publication behind a statement and spending a little longer with it. References give a reader somewhere concrete to go when a summary needs more context.
In House, clinical answers include references that can be followed back to their sources. This is a product choice as much as a content choice. The reference needs to be close enough to the answer that checking it feels like a continuation of reading, rather than a separate search to reconstruct where it came from.
A summary is a useful doorway
Summaries make information approachable. They can give a question some structure and help a reader decide what to examine next. They also leave things out. The longer document may explain qualifications, definitions, or the circumstances in which a statement was made. Keeping that document accessible matters.
The same idea shapes the guideline directory. A title, an issuing body, and a short description help you orient yourself. The source link lets you continue beyond the directory. Both levels serve a purpose: one helps you find a document; the other lets you read what the document actually says.
Design for a closer look
A reference is not a guarantee that a generated answer has interpreted a source correctly. The connection still deserves attention. House keeps that inspection possible instead of asking the reader to treat the answer as a closed object. The interface should welcome questions about its own contents.
That is the meaning of intelligence that shows its working. It is a practical expectation for the product: make the answer readable, keep the supporting material nearby, and preserve a route into the details. The aim is to support an informed reading process, including the moments when the reader wants to pause, compare, or disagree.
