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Clarification for “An evidence table with room for negative findings”: the point beginning “Include all prespecified outcomes where reported, null…” b...
Case 43 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods · source wording exercise Correction note for “Reading an abstract without skipping the met...
Case 43 — Animal evidence and the limits of translation · source wording exercise Clarification for “Animal evidence and the limits of translation”: t...
Case 16 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? The corrected summary can be useful without a clinical promise: model, method...
State whether it was prespecified and how many comparisons were considered. Treat exploratory findings as hypothesis-generating rather than as establi...
Case 54 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error · comparison exercise Reader check for “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison erro...
Case 38 — Comparing laboratory methods across years · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Comparing laboratory methods across years”: “Do ...
Clarification for “Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources”: the point beginning “Record when only a secondary account was acc...
Locate the primary study and confirm that it measured the claimed outcome. Record when only a secondary account was accessible and avoid presenting it...
Correction note for “Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured”: retain the wording beginning “Describe the measurement, population ...
Link both versions, record dates and check whether methods or conclusions changed. Publication status is useful context but is not itself a guarantee ...
Describe the species, model and outcome actually studied. Differences in biology and study conditions limit translation; the finding is not a clinical...
Create separate columns for the quantity measured, method, units and denominator. Do not subtract the two percentages as though they represented a dis...