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Case 26 — Comparing laboratory methods across years · source wording exercise Two results were collected years apart with unknown method changes. What...

Identify population, design, comparator, outcome definitions and follow-up. Assess whether the conclusion extends beyond the measurements and note wha...

Case 18 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? Proposed correction: documentation supplied; method and sample linkage i...

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

Ask whether the changed figure affects the archive’s interpretation. Updating a citation alone may leave an unsupported conclusion in the opening summ...

Case 10 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources Method note for “Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sou...

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

Method note for “Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured”: use “Describe the measurement, population or model,…” as a row heading ...