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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 6 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? The summary should say that different quantities were initially mixed a...

Case 68 — Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication · comparison exercise Correction note for “Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication”: retain the ...

Separate document provenance, identity, purity and the conditions measured. A percentage without its method and sample linkage cannot establish all of...

Limit of the answer in “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: “Association does not identify direction or causation, and…” is an excerpt from...

Case 2 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods Clarification for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: the point beginning “I...

Limit of the answer in “Comparing laboratory methods across years”: “Do not infer a physiological trend before assessing…” is an excerpt from the disc...

Case 20 — A correction log that survives the next archive update Use separate entries for the internal transcription correction and the publisher noti...

Case 6 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? Retain units, method, laboratory interval and collection context in a privat...

Case 10 — Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication Clarification for “Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication”: the point beginning “Link both vers...

Case 20 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together Correction note for “Data provenance: keep source, transformation and outpu...

Summary draft for “Clinical questions in an archive discussion”: the answer addresses “Explain the study’s scope and limitations without…”; the relate...