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Case 17 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? Create separate columns for the quantity measured, method, units and d...
Case 24 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? Retain units, method, laboratory interval and collection context in a priva...
Case 15 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly A result is described only as statistically significant. What information is missing? ...
Reader check for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: distinguish the discussion point “Identify population, design, comparator, outcom...
Clarification for “A correction log for an archive article”: the point beginning “Identify the original error and the corrected text, date…” belongs t...
Method note for “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: use “Report sample size, potential confounders…” as a row heading in a proposed workin...
Reader check for “Clinical questions in an archive discussion”: distinguish the discussion point “Explain the study’s scope and limitations without…” ...
Case 13 — Clinical questions in an archive discussion Correction note for “Clinical questions in an archive discussion”: retain the wording beginning ...
Was the analysis prespecified or exploratory, and how was uncertainty reported? Record what the paper states and mark unreported fields instead of ass...
Case 4 — Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible State whether it was prespecified and how many comparisons were considered. Treat explo...
Case 19 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? Proposed correction: documentation supplied; method and sample linkage i...
Record the original units and axis transformation, show any conversion explicitly and retain the original values. Do not compare apparent visual dista...
Case 36 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error · source wording exercise Reader check for “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison ...