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Ask whether assay, instrument, units or reference intervals changed and retain both original reports. Do not infer a physiological trend before assess...
Case 23 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources Clarification for “Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary s...
Method note for “Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result?”: use “Retain units, method, laboratory interval and collection cont...
Case 42 — Retractions and expressions of concern in an archive · source wording exercise Method note for “Retractions and expressions of concern in an...
Put the species or model, design, comparator and measured endpoint before the interpretation. The reader should be able to see what was observed witho...
Limit of the answer in “Comparing laboratory methods across years”: “Do not infer a physiological trend before assessing…” is an excerpt from the disc...
Case 30 — Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample · source wording exercise Summary draft for “Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample”:...
Keep a visible correction near the affected material and a linked changelog entry. Readers who saved the earlier version should be able to understand ...
Case 23 — Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured Describe the measurement, population or model, units and uncertainty shown. Inte...
Case 22 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? The summary should say that different quantities were initially mixed ...
Case 28 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods · source wording exercise Clarification for “Reading an abstract without skipping the metho...
Clarification for “Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible”: the point beginning “State whether it was prespecified and how…” belongs to...
Case 33 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? · source wording exercise A value has been quoted without units, assay meth...
Case 27 — Correlation in a small observational dataset · source wording exercise Clarification for “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: the...