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Case 12 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods Identify population, design, comparator, outcome definitions and follow-up. Assess whether ...
Limit of the answer in “Animal evidence and the limits of translation”: “Describe the species, model and…” is an excerpt from the discussion, not an i...
Keep a visible correction near the affected material and a linked changelog entry. Readers who saved the earlier version should be able to understand ...
Case 32 — An evidence table with room for negative findings · source wording exercise How can a reading table avoid highlighting only positive outcome...
Correction note for “Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible”: retain the wording beginning “State whether it was prespecified and how…”...
Case 42 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources · source wording exercise Summary draft for “Reference management: distingui...
Case 16 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error Two figures use different units and one axis is logarithmic. How should a comparison be d...
Case 3 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? A reagent dossier contains a summary purity percentage but not the method...
Case 1 — Animal evidence and the limits of translation An animal experiment is cited as though it establishes a human outcome. What qualification is r...
Summary draft for “A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation”: the answer addresses “Expand it on first use and name the…”; the related p...
Method note for “A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation”: use “Expand it on first use and name the…” as a row heading in a proposed wo...
Case 30 — Clinical questions in an archive discussion · source wording exercise Method note for “Clinical questions in an archive discussion”: use “In...
Case 42 — Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication · source wording exercise Correction note for “Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication”: retain ...
Correction note for “Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together”: retain the wording beginning “Make synthetic examples explicit...