Draft print and archival format for Institute documents — disposition

§3Disposition and amendments

§3.1Disposition table

Table 1. Every submission with its disposition. Each row links to the submission in full.

§3.2Summary by disposition

Table 2. Counts by disposition, with the meaning of each.

§3.3Resulting amendments

1. The threshold between a correction and a new version is drawn too high — arising from DRAFT-PRINT-AND-AR/014. The versioning threshold is now stated by category: a change to a certainty rating, an effect estimate or a conclusion produces a new version at a new address, and every other change is a logged correction that states the previous wording.
2. There is no route to challenge a disposition — arising from DRAFT-PRINT-AND-AR/013. A disposition may now be referred for review to a member of the assessment committee who did not author the response, once per submission, with the referral and its outcome published alongside the original disposition whether or not it changes.
3. What the site collects about a reader is not stated in terms a reader can check — arising from DRAFT-PRINT-AND-AR/010. The statement now enumerates what is collected and what is not, and is written so that a reader can verify it from the page source, which is the only form of the statement that can be checked without trusting the Institute.
4. Two factual descriptions of the sponsor's programme are inaccurate — arising from DRAFT-PRINT-AND-AR/012. The trial status now reads as completed at a pre-specified interim analysis, with the analysis identified, and the dose is stated in the unit used in the approved labelling. The submission is identified as an industry submission on its face in accordance with…
5. The secretariat answers submissions and is not itself named — arising from DRAFT-PRINT-AND-AR/005. Every comment period now names the secretariat members responsible for it, with their declared interests, in the consultation front matter, so that the responses can be read against the interests of the people who wrote them.
6. References should carry a persistent identifier for every cited source — arising from DRAFT-PRINT-AND-AR/011. Every reference without a persistent identifier now carries an explicit statement that the identifier is not held by the Institute, so that its absence is a recorded fact rather than an apparent oversight.
7. A party criticised in an assessment should have a right of reply — arising from DRAFT-PRINT-AND-AR/006. A standing correction route is now published, corrections of fact are assessed and applied at any time with the change recorded in the amendment log, and a submission of substance received outside a window is held and published in the next comment period on…
8. Quantitative claims are reproduced without the method that produced them — arising from DRAFT-PRINT-AND-AR/017. Every quantitative claim now carries the determination that produced it at the point of use, and figures obtained by non-comparable methods are no longer presented in the same row or sentence.
9. The document is unreadable without specialist training — arising from DRAFT-PRINT-AND-AR/008. Every document now opens with a plain-language summary of not more than 150 words, placed above the technical abstract and carrying the same certainty language, so that the two cannot diverge.
10. Absence of evidence is presented in a form a reader will take as negative evidence — arising from DRAFT-PRINT-AND-AR/009. A standing formulation has been adopted and is applied wherever an evidence gap is recorded, distinguishing an outcome assessed and not demonstrated from an outcome not assessed. The formulation is identical at every occurrence so that it can be recognised at…
11. Where a document is generated rather than authored, the reader should be told — arising from DRAFT-PRINT-AND-AR/016. Every generated record now carries a notice stating that its prose frame is templated and that its included studies, summary of findings and certainty rating are computed from the underlying records, so that the reader can see which parts were authored and…
12. The terms on which the documents may be reused are not stated — arising from DRAFT-PRINT-AND-AR/004. The reuse terms are now stated explicitly on the legal page and in the document footer, permitting quotation and reproduction with attribution and the document version, and requiring that any reproduction carry the certainty rating that accompanied the quoted…
13. Disagreement within the assessment committee is not visible — arising from DRAFT-PRINT-AND-AR/015. A ratification record is now published with every document stating whether the assessment was unanimous, and a member may record a dissenting statement which is published with the document rather than in minutes.

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1. International Organization for Standardization. ISO/IEC 17025:2017 General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories. ISO/IEC Standard 2017;3rd edition. identifier not held by the Institute

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