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Case 20 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? Ask whether the sample identifier, issuing laboratory, report date and r...
Put the species or model, design, comparator and measured endpoint before the interpretation. The reader should be able to see what was observed witho...
Reader check for “A correction log for an archive article”: distinguish the discussion point “Keep the correction visible to readers who may have…” fr...
Case 31 — An evidence table with room for negative findings · source wording exercise Reader check for “An evidence table with room for negative findi...
Case 16 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods Limit of the answer in “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: “Identify popula...
Case 36 — A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “A durable glossary entry for an amb...
Discuss who chose to post, missing outcomes, unverifiable records and changes in reporting over time. Such material can suggest questions but cannot e...
Put the species or model, design, comparator and measured endpoint before the interpretation. The reader should be able to see what was observed witho...
Case 8 — A literature note that separates hypothesis from observation A paper proposes a mechanism but the summary describes it as an established clin...
Limit of the answer in “Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible”: “State whether it was prespecified and how…” is an excerpt from the di...
Case 35 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error · source wording exercise Summary draft for “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison...
Case 18 — A correction log for an archive article Identify the original error and the corrected text, date the correction and link the source. Keep th...
Report sample size, potential confounders and measurement uncertainty. Association does not identify direction or causation, and exploratory results n...