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Link the publisher notice beside the citation, record its date and reassess claims that relied on the paper. Do not leave the historical citation look...
Case 6 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods Identify population, design, comparator, outcome definitions and follow-up. Assess whether t...
Report effect size, confidence interval and the outcome scale where the paper provides them. Statistical significance alone does not establish practic...
Explain the study’s scope and limitations without recommending a treatment change. Individual decisions belong with a qualified clinician who can asse...
Describe the measurement, population or model, units and uncertainty shown. Interpretive discussion belongs alongside the evidence, not in place of it...
Keep the source citation, retrieval date and a record of conversions or exclusions. Make synthetic examples explicit and never combine them silently w...
Case 30 — Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured · source wording exercise Reader check for “Research figure captions: tell the r...
Case 48 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Two laboratories, tw...
Case 35 — An evidence table with room for negative findings · source wording exercise Method note for “An evidence table with room for negative findin...
Case 45 — Clinical questions in an archive discussion · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Clinical questions in an archive discussion”: ...
Create separate columns for the quantity measured, method, units and denominator. Do not subtract the two percentages as though they represented a dis...
Record the original units and axis transformation, show any conversion explicitly and retain the original values. Do not compare apparent visual dista...
Method note for “Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured”: use “Interpretive discussion belongs alongside the evidence, not…” as a...
Case 111 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? · uncertainty exercise Correction note for “Assay-specific reference range...