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Link both versions, record dates and check whether methods or conclusions changed. Publication status is useful context but is not itself a guarantee ...
Explain the study’s scope and limitations without recommending a treatment change. Individual decisions belong with a qualified clinician who can asse...
Locate the primary study and confirm that it measured the claimed outcome. Record when only a secondary account was accessible and avoid presenting it...
Case 18 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? The summary should say that different quantities were initially mixed ...
Locate the primary study and confirm that it measured the claimed outcome. Record when only a secondary account was accessible and avoid presenting it...
Correction note for “A literature note that separates hypothesis from observation”: retain the wording beginning “State the study design and what was ...
Case 33 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources · source wording exercise Correction note for “Reference management: disting...
Case 13 — A literature note that separates hypothesis from observation State the study design and what was actually measured before discussing the pro...
Case 31 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? · source wording exercise The draft summary of a fictional reading exercise m...
Report sample size, potential confounders and measurement uncertainty. Association does not identify direction or causation, and exploratory results n...
Case 34 — Retractions and expressions of concern in an archive · source wording exercise Method note for “Retractions and expressions of concern in an...
Keep the original reported values beside any reformatted presentation. A conversion or interpretation needs a documented basis; it should not silently...
Case 10 — A correction log that survives the next archive update If the source is not accessible, label the revision pending verification. An unavaila...
Case 16 — Correlation in a small observational dataset Two variables move together in a small sample. What would a careful discussion acknowledge? Exe...
Method note for “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: use “Association does not identify direction or causation, and…” as a row heading in a...