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Case 6 — An evidence table with room for negative findings Method note for “An evidence table with room for negative findings”: use “Include all presp...

Case 4 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods Limit of the answer in “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: “Identify populat...

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

Clarification for “Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured”: the point beginning “Describe the measurement, population or model,…”...

Method note for “Comparing laboratory methods across years”: use “Do not infer a physiological trend before assessing…” as a row heading in a proposed...

Method note for “Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible”: use “State whether it was prespecified and how…” as a row heading in a propos...

Case 25 — Correlation in a small observational dataset · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Correlation in a small observational dataset”...

Case 16 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? Keep the original reported values beside any reformatted presentation....