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Discuss who chose to post, missing outcomes, unverifiable records and changes in reporting over time. Such material can suggest questions but cannot e...

Case 13 — Clinical questions in an archive discussion A reader asks whether an experimental finding should change their treatment. What is an appropri...

State the study design and what was actually measured before discussing the proposed mechanism. Keep speculation explicitly labelled and avoid transla...

Case 1 — Animal evidence and the limits of translation Method note for “Animal evidence and the limits of translation”: use “Describe the species, mod...

Method note for “Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample”: use “Discuss who chose to post, missing outcomes, unverifiable records…” as a row he...

Identify the original error and the corrected text, date the correction and link the source. Keep the correction visible to readers who may have saved...

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

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

Method note for “Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract?”: use “Put the species or model, design, comparator and…” as a row hea...

Retain units, method, laboratory interval and collection context in a private clinical record. A forum comparison cannot diagnose a condition; a quali...

Case 13 — Correlation in a small observational dataset Clarification for “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: the point beginning “Report s...