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Discuss who chose to post, missing outcomes, unverifiable records and changes in reporting over time. Such material can suggest questions but cannot e...

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

Case 6 — Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication Link both versions, record dates and check whether methods or conclusions changed. Publication stat...

Expand it on first use and name the discipline and source context. Add a cross-reference for alternate meanings rather than assuming that every histor...

Case 26 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly · source wording exercise Correction note for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertai...

Case 17 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? Method note for “Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a r...

Case 21 — A literature note that separates hypothesis from observation A paper proposes a mechanism but the summary describes it as an established cli...

Case 35 — Clinical questions in an archive discussion · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Clinical questions in an archive discussion”: ...

Case 11 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? An apparent difference can motivate a method question without proving ...

Case 53 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? · comparison exercise Correction note for “Certificate of analysis: whic...