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Clarification for “Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing?”: the point beginning “Create separate columns for the quanti...

Case 34 — An evidence table with room for negative findings · source wording exercise Method note for “An evidence table with room for negative findin...

Case 12 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? Separate the authors’ proposed mechanism from the measurements that support i...

Method note for “Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract?”: use “The reader should be able to see what was…” as a row heading in...

Reader check for “Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources”: distinguish the discussion point “Record when only a secondary acc...

Put the species or model, design, comparator and measured endpoint before the interpretation. The reader should be able to see what was observed witho...

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Include all prespecified outcomes where reported, null findings, exclusions and limitations. Separate the authors’ interpretation from the table’s dir...