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Case 8 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources A review cites another review for a claim about an experiment. How can the ev...

Case 43 — An evidence table with room for negative findings · source wording exercise Correction note for “An evidence table with room for negative fi...

Case 8 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources Locate the primary study and confirm that it measured the claimed outcome. Re...

Case 52 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? · comparison exercise Reader check for “Certificate of analysis: which c...

Method note for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: use “Report effect size, confidence interval and the outcome scale…” as a row...

Clarification for “Clinical questions in an archive discussion”: the point beginning “Explain the study’s scope and limitations without…” belongs to t...

Correction note for “Retractions and expressions of concern in an archive”: retain the wording beginning “Link the publisher notice beside the citatio...

Check the primary paper, supplementary material and any publisher correction. A review article can help locate sources, but it is not a substitute for...

Case 1 — Animal evidence and the limits of translation Describe the species, model and outcome actually studied. Differences in biology and study cond...

Describe the measurement, population or model, units and uncertainty shown. Interpretive discussion belongs alongside the evidence, not in place of it...