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Link the publisher notice beside the citation, record its date and reassess claims that relied on the paper. Do not leave the historical citation look...
Case 23 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? The summary should say that different quantities were initially mixed ...
Case 151 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources · indexing exercise Reader check for “Reference management: distinguish pri...
Case 23 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? Limit of the answer in “Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel w...
Include all prespecified outcomes where reported, null findings, exclusions and limitations. Separate the authors’ interpretation from the table’s dir...
Case 35 — Comparing laboratory methods across years · source wording exercise Clarification for “Comparing laboratory methods across years”: the point...
Each entry should retain the date, old text, corrected text, reason and source reference. For a publisher notice, link the notice as well as the origi...
Case 14 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together Keep the source citation, retrieval date and a record of conversions or exc...
Was the analysis prespecified or exploratory, and how was uncertainty reported? Record what the paper states and mark unreported fields instead of ass...
Case 2 — A correction log for an archive article Method note for “A correction log for an archive article”: use “Identify the original error and the c...
Case 12 — A correction log that survives the next archive update A archive table has a transcription error in a unit label. A later publisher notice a...
Limit of the answer in “Clinical questions in an archive discussion”: “Explain the study’s scope and limitations without…” is an excerpt from the disc...
Limit of the answer in “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: “Identify population, design, comparator, outcome…” is an excerpt from the ...
Case 19 — Animal evidence and the limits of translation Limit of the answer in “Animal evidence and the limits of translation”: “Describe the species,...
Case 35 — A literature note that separates hypothesis from observation · source wording exercise Method note for “A literature note that separates hyp...