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Ask whether assay, instrument, units or reference intervals changed and retain both original reports. Do not infer a physiological trend before assess...

Case 24 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? An apparent difference can motivate a method question without proving ...

A chromatographic peak-area figure and net material content answer different questions. Record the report’s own definition and units before comparing ...

Case 19 — Animal evidence and the limits of translation An animal experiment is cited as though it establishes a human outcome. What qualification is ...

Case 34 — Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication”: “Pub...

Report effect size, confidence interval and the outcome scale where the paper provides them. Statistical significance alone does not establish practic...

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...

Method note for “Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible”: use “State whether it was prespecified and how…” as a row heading in a propos...

Case 26 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · source wording exercise Clarification for “Data provenance: keep source, ...