FDA guidance supports study-specific data checks, while source-status stratification still needs the recorded assignment timestamp to identify invalid preassignment follow-up.
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Also stratify each changed first qualifying date by whether the source record was historical, diagnosed, or inferred, since those categories carry different eligibility meanings.
Five EDs do not establish site stability
PMID 42229200 pooled adults from five emergency departments and reported three clusters, including contrasting metabolic burden and FIB-4 patterns. The abstract does not report whether those contrasts recur within each ED, so the source supports health-system clustering but not site-level stability or transportability.
PMID 42229200 supports the narrower record: five emergency departments within one health system, LLM-based report screening, K-means clustering, and three derived clusters. Its abstract does not report site-held-out analysis, per-site cluster frequencies, or feature-loading stability. Calling the clusters reproducible clinical structure would therefore outrun the cited record. The first source-trace test is whether each site contributed enough eligible cases to reproduce the prespecified metabolic burden and FIB-4 contrasts separately.
