StudyDesign 04646 · Member profile
List materials, measurement conditions, controls and exclusions with enough detail to understand the method. Keep this as research documentation and d...
Case 1 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? Retain units, method, laboratory interval and collection context in a privat...
Ask whether assay, instrument, units or reference intervals changed and retain both original reports. Do not infer a physiological trend before assess...
Case 29 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? · source wording exercise Clarification for “Two laboratories, two per...
Case 34 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Units and scale: prevent a silent compa...
Case 75 — Reproducibility checklist for a bench-method discussion · documentation exercise Correction note for “Reproducibility checklist for a bench-...
Locate the primary study and confirm that it measured the claimed outcome. Record when only a secondary account was accessible and avoid presenting it...
Separate document provenance, identity, purity and the conditions measured. A percentage without its method and sample linkage cannot establish all of...
Case 6 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? Proposed correction: documentation supplied; method and sample linkage in...
Case 3 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly Correction note for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: retain the...
Clarification for “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: the point beginning “Report sample size, potential confounders…” belongs to the ques...
Create separate columns for the quantity measured, method, units and denominator. Do not subtract the two percentages as though they represented a dis...
Use separate entries for the internal transcription correction and the publisher notice. They have different sources and may affect different claims.
Case 33 — Reproducibility checklist for a bench-method discussion · source wording exercise Summary draft for “Reproducibility checklist for a bench-m...
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...