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Reader check for “Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources”: distinguish the discussion point “Locate the primary study and con...
Case 3 — An evidence table with room for negative findings How can a reading table avoid highlighting only positive outcomes? Exercise RESEARCH-27495/...
Identify the original error and the corrected text, date the correction and link the source. Keep the correction visible to readers who may have saved...
Case 28 — An evidence table with room for negative findings · source wording exercise Clarification for “An evidence table with room for negative find...
Case 5 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together Keep the source citation, retrieval date and a record of conversions or excl...
Link both versions, record dates and check whether methods or conclusions changed. Publication status is useful context but is not itself a guarantee ...
Record the original units and axis transformation, show any conversion explicitly and retain the original values. Do not compare apparent visual dista...
Case 24 — Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication Clarification for “Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication”: the point beginning “Link both vers...
Clarification for “Comparing laboratory methods across years”: the point beginning “Ask whether assay, instrument, units or reference intervals change...
Clarification for “Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result?”: the point beginning “Retain units, method, laboratory interval a...
Clarification for “A correction log for an archive article”: the point beginning “Identify the original error and the corrected text, date…” belongs t...
Separate the authors’ proposed mechanism from the measurements that support it. A plausible explanation is not automatically a demonstrated pathway.
Method note for “Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result?”: use “Retain units, method, laboratory interval and collection cont...