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Clarification for “Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract?”: the point beginning “The reader should be able to see what was…” b...
Put the species or model, design, comparator and measured endpoint before the interpretation. The reader should be able to see what was observed witho...
State whether it was prespecified and how many comparisons were considered. Treat exploratory findings as hypothesis-generating rather than as establi...
Limit of the answer in “Animal evidence and the limits of translation”: “Describe the species, model and…” is an excerpt from the discussion, not an i...
Case 26 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? · source wording exercise Summary draft for “Certificate of analysis: wh...
Clarification for “Reproducibility checklist for a bench-method discussion”: the point beginning “List materials, measurement conditions, controls and...
Create separate columns for the quantity measured, method, units and denominator. Do not subtract the two percentages as though they represented a dis...
Keep the source citation, retrieval date and a record of conversions or exclusions. Make synthetic examples explicit and never combine them silently w...
Case 14 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? A value has been quoted without units, assay method or reference interval. ...
Case 31 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods · source wording exercise Correction note for “Reading an abstract without skipping the met...
Case 25 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Data provenance: keep sou...
Case 18 — A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation Method note for “A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation”: use “Expand...
Case 28 — A literature note that separates hypothesis from observation · source wording exercise Correction note for “A literature note that separates...