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Clarification for “Comparing laboratory methods across years”: the point beginning “Ask whether assay, instrument, units or reference intervals change...
State the study design and what was actually measured before discussing the proposed mechanism. Keep speculation explicitly labelled and avoid transla...
Case 7 — A correction log that survives the next archive update Keep a visible correction near the affected material and a linked changelog entry. Rea...
Case 28 — Retractions and expressions of concern in an archive · source wording exercise A cited article now has an editorial notice. How should the a...
Case 15 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? The summary should say that different quantities were initially mixed ...
Link both versions, record dates and check whether methods or conclusions changed. Publication status is useful context but is not itself a guarantee ...
Case 10 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly Method note for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: use “Report e...
Case 30 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods · source wording exercise Method note for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods...
Case 19 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? The corrected summary can be useful without a clinical promise: model, method...
Case 26 — An evidence table with room for negative findings · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “An evidence table with room for negative...