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Case 10 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? The summary should say that different quantities were initially mixed ...

Case 28 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? · source wording exercise Summary draft for “Reading a preclinical paper: wha...

Case 29 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly · source wording exercise A result is described only as statistically significant. Wha...

Keep the original reported values beside any reformatted presentation. A conversion or interpretation needs a documented basis; it should not silently...

Clarification for “Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result?”: the point beginning “Retain units, method, laboratory interval a...

Case 17 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources A review cites another review for a claim about an experiment. How can the e...

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

Case 31 — Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample · source wording exercise Method note for “Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample”: u...

Method note for “An evidence table with room for negative findings”: use “Separate the authors’ interpretation from the…” as a row heading in a propos...

Case 10 — Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample Limit of the answer in “Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample”: “Discuss who chose t...