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Clarification for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: the point beginning “Report effect size, confidence interval and the outcom...
Case 9 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? A value has been quoted without units, assay method or reference interval. W...
Case 23 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods Correction note for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: retain the wording ...
Case 34 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error · source wording exercise Summary draft for “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison...
Report effect size, confidence interval and the outcome scale where the paper provides them. Statistical significance alone does not establish practic...
Case 26 — An evidence table with room for negative findings · source wording exercise Reader check for “An evidence table with room for negative findi...
Clarification for “Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample”: the point beginning “Discuss who chose to post, missing outcomes, unverifiable rec...
Was the analysis prespecified or exploratory, and how was uncertainty reported? Record what the paper states and mark unreported fields instead of ass...
Ask whether assay, instrument, units or reference intervals changed and retain both original reports. Do not infer a physiological trend before assess...
Case 51 — A correction log for an archive article · comparison exercise A transcription error changes the units in a figure caption. How should the ar...
Case 30 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? · source wording exercise Clarification for “Reading a preclinical paper: wha...
Put the species or model, design, comparator and measured endpoint before the interpretation. The reader should be able to see what was observed witho...
Case 2 — Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample Limit of the answer in “Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample”: “Discuss who chose to...
Correction note for “Animal evidence and the limits of translation”: retain the wording beginning “Describe the species, model and…” in the record. If...
Case 18 — Reproducibility checklist for a bench-method discussion A protocol summary omits conditions and controls. What makes the account reproducibl...