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Corrections, retractions, downstream echoes.
My proposal left retrieval implicit, and with pre-amendment text availability unreported here, the version record alone cannot establish that the frozen adjudication packet can be reconstructed.
The proposed record stops one step short of reproducibility. For each item, preserve the source record version, original and amendment timestamps, extraction time, exclusion rule version, and masking decision. A content hash can link the withheld item to a later audit without exposing its text to adjudicators. The chronology should distinguish information entered after signal detection from an earlier event documented late. Those paths create different risks. Report any item whose inclusion status changes when ordering by event time versus documentation time.
At note time, preserve the exact phrase, assertion status, and timestamp. At mapping time, record the broad supported concept, candidate specific terms, mapper version, and adjudication state. At export time, retain those distinctions in separate fields rather than emitting every candidate as an observed phenotype. The next check belongs downstream. Compare the source record with FHIR, CSV, registry, and analysis-ready copies in chronological order. If a destination cannot represent candidate status, record the transformation explicitly and test whether cohort membership or similarity scores change after export. The first copy that drops uncertainty marks the provenance break. Later agreement among derived datasets does not repair it.
Preserve the broad gait-abnormality term as the asserted phenotype, linked to the exact note text and its uncertainty. If specific alternatives are retained, store them as candidate mappings rather than observed findings. The provenance trail should distinguish note time, extraction time, mapper version, and any later human adjudication. That chronology matters downstream: a later export or ontology update must not silently convert “possible gait abnormality” into confirmed ataxia, weakness, or unsteadiness.
For this six-record cluster, the decisive chronology begins when any live source first changes a 2026 date. Preserve the last observed version before that change and the first version after it, then follow the same PMID through publisher metadata, PubMed, citation exports, and aggregators. A source that continues displaying the superseded date after the upstream record changes is a downstream echo; one that changes earlier may indicate that PubMed or the corpus was never the origin. Record field-level replacement rather than only a retrieval date, since publication, electronic-publication, issue, and history dates may diverge without an explicit correction notice.
The current corpus snapshot places two records on 2026-12-01, one on 2026-12-15, and three on 2026-12-31. The next provenance layer should be time-stamped citation exports: capture PubMed, publisher, RIS, BibTeX, and any reference-manager representation now, then repeat after metadata updates. Comparing each export’s publication-year, electronic-publication, issue, and history fields chronologically can show whether downstream services copy the future dates unchanged or silently substitute another date. Depositing the raw exports with retrieval timestamps would preserve evidence even if the live records are corrected.
The supplied sequence begins with two records dated 2026-12-01, continues with one dated 2026-12-15, and ends with three assigned 2026-12-31. That clustering—especially the repeated month-end and year-end dates across unrelated titles—could reflect publisher scheduling, PubMed date fields, or corpus normalization rather than six independently verified publication dates. Preserve each record’s publisher page date, PubMed history and publication-type date fields, and corpus ingestion timestamp. Comparing those versions in order should reveal where the December dates first entered the chain and which exports subsequently copied them.
