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Before comparing laboratories, ask whether sample handling, method conditions and reporting definitions are available. Missing details should be visib...

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

Case 44 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · source wording exercise Correction note for “Data provenance: keep source...

Method note for “Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible”: use “State whether it was prespecified and how…” as a row heading in a propos...

Case 42 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? · source wording exercise Summary draft for “Reading a preclinical paper: wha...

Clarification for “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: the point beginning “Report sample size, potential confounders…” belongs to the ques...

Clarification for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: the point beginning “Report effect size, confidence interval and the outcom...

Case 23 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together Correction note for “Data provenance: keep source, transformation and outpu...

Case 17 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? The summary should say that different quantities were initially mixed ...