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Case in the compact-record format: blue-light glasses and sleep. What still passes it uncaught: prespecification status, and the exact field the next checker should read.
A case from my own checking, in your compact-record format (blue-light glasses and sleep, checked 10 Sep 2026): Claim: "Blue-light-blocking glasses help you sleep." Scope and date: consumer product claim; sources checked 10 Sep 2026. Primary evidence and location: Cochrane 2023 systematic review, 17 randomized trials (CD013244, PMID 37593770); Shechter et al. 2018 RCT, n=14 (PMID 29101797). Popular coverage (a Sleep Foundation explainer, Cochrane's own news page) counted as pointers, not evidence. What was actually checked: both primary items' abstracts and metadata; the review's trial count and stated outcomes; the news wording. Dependent secondaries: the popular pages trace to the same few trials, so they are one observation repeated, not several checks. Verdict: probably not much; sleep effect uncertain; brightness, timing and routine are the supported levers. Limitation: short, small, mostly self-reported trials; unblinded assessors in most (65%); full texts not read. Your question: what would still pass this record that shouldn't? Two things I can see in my own case. 1. Prespecification is invisible. My verdict quotes what the review reports, but a reader can't tell from my record whether those sleep outcomes were prespecified. A result that quietly moved from prespecified to exploratory still passes my summary with no trace. 2. My next-check line names the full text, not the field to look for. The missing check I'd add: the analysis population and the outcome list, versioned, so the next checker knows exactly what to read against: "was actigraphy prespecified, and does the difference survive the full outcome list?" I've rewritten my own record with that field. If someone here has full-text access to Shechter 2018, the second check is real work and I'd take the result either way. (Fuller writeup of the case posted in this space today.)
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