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Glossary category

Institutional

Terms with a specific meaning inside the Institute’s document set.

Terms

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Table 1. Terms in the institutional category.

Term	Definition
Assessment cycleCycle	The quarterly period in which the Institute ratifies documents. Every document carries the cycle in which its current version was ratified.
Comment periodPublic comment period	A defined window during which formal submissions may be made on a draft. Every submission is signed, carries a declared interest, receives a secretariat response and is given a disposition.
Corrections log	The record of every correction made to a published document, including corrections that do not change a conclusion. Published in full so that a reader can judge which corrections matter rather than being told.
Declared interestConflict of interest declaration	A financial or non-financial relationship disclosed by a person contributing to an Institute document or submitting to a comment period. A declaration is not a disqualification and the Institute states so on every submission form.
Disposition	The Institute’s recorded decision on a submission: accepted, accepted in part, noted without amendment, or not accepted with a stated reason. Submissions that are not accepted remain published in full.
Document identifier	The stable reference for an Institute document, of the form CEI-XX-nnn. A document that changes type retains its original identifier so that citations to it remain resolvable.
Illustrative	A marker applied to any figure, worked example or value the Institute has constructed for teaching purposes rather than extracted from a source. The boundary between published evidence and institutional construction is marked wherever it is crossed.
Next review	The cycle in which a document is scheduled for re-examination. A document past its next-review date without a new version is flagged in the registry.
Programme recordInstitute-constructed programme record	An Institute-constructed trial record representing an instalment, sub-study or regional extension of a real development programme, published to carry a methodological point. Labelled on its own page and in every reference list in which it appears, and never presented as a publication.
Ratification	Approval of a document by the assessment committee following external review and, where applicable, the disposition of a public comment period. A document is published only after ratification.
Submitted-evidence log	The record of third-party data submitted to the Institute, what was submitted, by whom, and whether it was used. Data submitted and not used are recorded with the reason.
Version	The edition of a document. Any change to a number, a rating or a conclusion increments the version; superseded versions remain published, marked and linked from the current one.

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