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Limit of the answer in “Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication”: “Link both versions, record dates and check whether…” is an excerpt from the discu...

Case 10 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods A strong abstract conclusion is being discussed without the study methods. What should the ...

Case 21 — Clinical questions in an archive discussion A reader asks whether an experimental finding should change their treatment. What is an appropri...

Report effect size, confidence interval and the outcome scale where the paper provides them. Statistical significance alone does not establish practic...

Case 28 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? · source wording exercise Correction note for “Two laboratories, two p...

Limit of the answer in “Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together”: “Keep the source citation, retrieval date and a…” is an exc...

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

Case 20 — A correction log that survives the next archive update A archive table has a transcription error in a unit label. A later publisher notice a...