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Ask whether the sample identifier, issuing laboratory, report date and relevant analytical method can be verified. A copied certificate may be genuine...

Case 36 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · source wording exercise Clarification for “Data provenance: keep source, ...

Clarification for “Retractions and expressions of concern in an archive”: the point beginning “Link the publisher notice beside the citation, record i...

Reader check for “Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result?”: distinguish the discussion point “Retain units, method, laborator...

Limit of the answer in “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: “Statistical significance alone does not establish…” is an excerpt fro...

Clarification for “Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing?”: the point beginning “Do not subtract the two percentages as...

Case 8 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? Separate the authors’ proposed mechanism from the measurements that support it...

Describe the species, model and outcome actually studied. Differences in biology and study conditions limit translation; the finding is not a clinical...