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Case 27 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly · source wording exercise Correction note for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertai...

Case 23 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources Correction note for “Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary...

Ask whether assay, instrument, units or reference intervals changed and retain both original reports. Do not infer a physiological trend before assess...

Correction note for “An evidence table with room for negative findings”: retain the wording beginning “Separate the authors’ interpretation from the…”...

Correction note for “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: retain the wording beginning “Report sample size, potential confounders…” in the r...

Case 32 — A literature note that separates hypothesis from observation · source wording exercise A paper proposes a mechanism but the summary describe...

Case 7 — Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible A subgroup finding was not the primary planned analysis. How should it be summarised? E...

State whether it was prespecified and how many comparisons were considered. Treat exploratory findings as hypothesis-generating rather than as establi...

Method note for “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error”: use “Record the original units and axis transformation, show any conversion…” as...

Case 13 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods Identify population, design, comparator, outcome definitions and follow-up. Assess whether ...

Case 25 — Correlation in a small observational dataset · source wording exercise Correction note for “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: r...