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Correction note for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: retain the wording beginning “Identify population, design, comparator, outcome...
Method note for “Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support?”: use “A percentage without its method and sample linkage cannot…...
Case 6 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? A value has been quoted without units, assay method or reference interval. W...
Case 5 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly Summary draft for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: the answer a...
Case 14 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? The summary should say that different quantities were initially mixed ...
Create separate columns for the quantity measured, method, units and denominator. Do not subtract the two percentages as though they represented a dis...
Case 25 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? · source wording exercise Clarification for “Reading a preclinical paper: wha...
Method note for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: use “Statistical significance alone does not establish…” as a row heading in ...
Case 29 — Comparing laboratory methods across years · source wording exercise Two results were collected years apart with unknown method changes. What...
Include all prespecified outcomes where reported, null findings, exclusions and limitations. Separate the authors’ interpretation from the table’s dir...
Ask whether the sample identifier, issuing laboratory, report date and relevant analytical method can be verified. A copied certificate may be genuine...
Each entry should retain the date, old text, corrected text, reason and source reference. For a publisher notice, link the notice as well as the origi...
Case 8 — An evidence table with room for negative findings Include all prespecified outcomes where reported, null findings, exclusions and limitations...
Separate the authors’ proposed mechanism from the measurements that support it. A plausible explanation is not automatically a demonstrated pathway.