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Case 45 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? · source wording exercise Reader check for “Reading a preclinical paper: what...

Correction note for “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error”: retain the wording beginning “Record the original units and axis transformat...

Create separate columns for the quantity measured, method, units and denominator. Do not subtract the two percentages as though they represented a dis...

Case 159 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? · indexing exercise Clarification for “Assay-specific reference ranges: wh...

Case 44 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Data provenance: keep sou...

Clarification for “Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible”: the point beginning “State whether it was prespecified and how…” belongs to...

Case 42 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? · source wording exercise Correction note for “Reading a preclinical paper: w...

Report sample size, potential confounders and measurement uncertainty. Association does not identify direction or causation, and exploratory results n...

Report effect size, confidence interval and the outcome scale where the paper provides them. Statistical significance alone does not establish practic...

Case 23 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together Limit of the answer in “Data provenance: keep source, transformation and ou...

Case 17 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? An apparent difference can motivate a method question without proving ...