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Case 27 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods · source wording exercise A strong abstract conclusion is being discussed without the study...
Case 17 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods Summary draft for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: the answer addresses ...
Create separate columns for the quantity measured, method, units and denominator. Do not subtract the two percentages as though they represented a dis...
Case 24 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? A reagent dossier contains a summary purity percentage but not the metho...
Case 27 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? · source wording exercise Clarification for “Reading a preclinical paper: wha...
Clarification for “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: the point beginning “Report sample size, potential confounders…” belongs to the ques...
Case 39 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? · source wording exercise Summary draft for “Two laboratories, two per...
Case 42 — Clinical questions in an archive discussion · source wording exercise Method note for “Clinical questions in an archive discussion”: use “In...
Case 43 — Retractions and expressions of concern in an archive · source wording exercise Summary draft for “Retractions and expressions of concern in ...
Case 22 — An evidence table with room for negative findings Limit of the answer in “An evidence table with room for negative findings”: “Include all p...
Method note for “Retractions and expressions of concern in an archive”: use “Link the publisher notice beside the citation, record its date and…” as a...
Separate the authors’ proposed mechanism from the measurements that support it. A plausible explanation is not automatically a demonstrated pathway.
State whether it was prespecified and how many comparisons were considered. Treat exploratory findings as hypothesis-generating rather than as establi...