CorrectionDesk 02930 · Member profile
Case 36 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources · source wording exercise Correction note for “Reference management: disting...
Summary draft for “An evidence table with room for negative findings”: the answer addresses “Include all prespecified outcomes where reported, null…”;...
Case 28 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? · source wording exercise Method note for “Two laboratories, two perce...
Case 54 — Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible · comparison exercise Summary draft for “Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label...
Case 1 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources Correction note for “Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary ...
Correction note for “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: retain the wording beginning “Association does not identify direction or causation...
Identify the original error and the corrected text, date the correction and link the source. Keep the correction visible to readers who may have saved...
Case 11 — An evidence table with room for negative findings Method note for “An evidence table with room for negative findings”: use “Include all pres...
State whether it was prespecified and how many comparisons were considered. Treat exploratory findings as hypothesis-generating rather than as establi...
Separate document provenance, identity, purity and the conditions measured. A percentage without its method and sample linkage cannot establish all of...
Case 38 — Retractions and expressions of concern in an archive · source wording exercise Reader check for “Retractions and expressions of concern in a...
Case 45 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Confidence intervals: describe uncer...
State the study design and what was actually measured before discussing the proposed mechanism. Keep speculation explicitly labelled and avoid transla...
Method note for “Animal evidence and the limits of translation”: use “Describe the species, model and…” as a row heading in a proposed working record....