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Case 66 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error · comparison exercise Summary draft for “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison err...

Explain the study’s scope and limitations without recommending a treatment change. Individual decisions belong with a qualified clinician who can asse...

Retain units, method, laboratory interval and collection context in a private clinical record. A forum comparison cannot diagnose a condition; a quali...

Reader check for “Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources”: distinguish the discussion point “Record when only a secondary acc...

Identify the original error and the corrected text, date the correction and link the source. Keep the correction visible to readers who may have saved...

Case 17 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? A chromatographic peak-area figure and net material content answer diffe...

Case 3 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? Keep the original reported values beside any reformatted presentation. ...

Case 7 — Correlation in a small observational dataset Limit of the answer in “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: “Report sample size, pote...

Case 18 — Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible A subgroup finding was not the primary planned analysis. How should it be summarised? ...

Report sample size, potential confounders and measurement uncertainty. Association does not identify direction or causation, and exploratory results n...

Limit of the answer in “Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together”: “Keep the source citation, retrieval date and a…” is an exc...

Case 31 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? · source wording exercise Summary draft for “Reading a preclinical paper: wha...