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Use a comparison-status column: directly comparable, comparable with stated qualifications, or not established. Explain the reason for each label.

Case 34 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? · source wording exercise A value has been quoted without units, assay meth...

Include all prespecified outcomes where reported, null findings, exclusions and limitations. Separate the authors’ interpretation from the table’s dir...

Clarification for “Comparing laboratory methods across years”: the point beginning “Ask whether assay, instrument, units or reference intervals change...

Correction note for “A correction log that survives the next archive update”: retain the wording beginning “Use separate entries for the internal tran...

Method note for “Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result?”: use “A forum comparison cannot diagnose a condition; a qualified…”...

Clarification for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: the point beginning “Report effect size, confidence interval and the outcom...

Case 56 — Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample · comparison exercise Correction note for “Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample”: r...