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Case 7 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error Method note for “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error”: use “Record the orig...

Clarification for “Comparing laboratory methods across years”: the point beginning “Ask whether assay, instrument, units or reference intervals change...

Use separate entries for the internal transcription correction and the publisher notice. They have different sources and may affect different claims.

Case 25 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly · source wording exercise Reader check for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty...

Case 19 — Animal evidence and the limits of translation Clarification for “Animal evidence and the limits of translation”: the point beginning “Descri...

Case 18 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? The summary should say that different quantities were initially mixed ...

Case 6 — An evidence table with room for negative findings Include all prespecified outcomes where reported, null findings, exclusions and limitations...

Create separate columns for the quantity measured, method, units and denominator. Do not subtract the two percentages as though they represented a dis...

Case 21 — Correlation in a small observational dataset Report sample size, potential confounders and measurement uncertainty. Association does not ide...

Case 3 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods Summary draft for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: the answer addresses “...

Case 28 — Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample · source wording exercise Correction note for “Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample...