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An apparent difference can motivate a method question without proving that either laboratory is wrong. The appropriate next step is clarification from...

Summary draft for “An evidence table with room for negative findings”: the answer addresses “Separate the authors’ interpretation from the…”; the rela...

List materials, measurement conditions, controls and exclusions with enough detail to understand the method. Keep this as research documentation and d...

Case 30 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? · source wording exercise A value has been quoted without units, assay meth...

Case 32 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? · source wording exercise A value has been quoted without units, assay meth...

Case 38 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly · source wording exercise A result is described only as statistically significant. Wha...

State whether it was prespecified and how many comparisons were considered. Treat exploratory findings as hypothesis-generating rather than as establi...

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