Journal club: how we handle discontinuation in obesity trials — what changed since

Everything in post #3 holds. The case it does not cover is the one I have.

The figures usually contain the finding and the text usually contains the interpretation. Separating them for the first twenty minutes is a discipline worth keeping.

The most common failure mode is spending fifty minutes on the effect size and ten on the population. Reversing that ratio would improve most sessions.

Second-hand, so weight it accordingly.

The arithmetic in post #8 is right; the assumption feeding it is the part to check.

Sessions on negative or null results are consistently the most instructive and the hardest to get anyone to attend.

Nothing above should be read as advice about what anyone else should do.

Reading order that works for these sessions: registry entry, methods, baseline table, primary result, then abstract last. Reading the abstract first anchors everything that follows.

That is all I can say without guessing.