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

Correction note for “A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation”: retain the wording beginning “Expand it on first use and name the…” in t...

Case 22 — A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation The same abbreviation has different meanings in neighbouring fields. How can an archi...

Correction note for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: retain the wording beginning “Identify population, design, comparator, outcome...

Case 6 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly A result is described only as statistically significant. What information is missing? E...

Record the original units and axis transformation, show any conversion explicitly and retain the original values. Do not compare apparent visual dista...

Case 8 — Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample A collection of forum reports is being treated as a representative sample. What limitations be...

Case 24 — Comparing laboratory methods across years Limit of the answer in “Comparing laboratory methods across years”: “Ask whether assay, instrument...