Table A18.
Selective Reporting.
Reporting Bias Due to Selective Outcome Reporting | |
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Criteria for judgment of “Low risk” of bias | Any of the following: The study protocol is available and all of the study‘s pre-specified outcomes (preeclampsia, maternal and fetal outcomes) which are of interest in the review have been reported in the pre-specified way; The study protocol is not available, but it is clear that the published reports include all expected outcomes, including those that were pre-specified. |
Criteria for judgment of “High risk” of bias | Any one of the following: Not all of the study’s pre-specified primary outcomes (preeclampsia) have been reported; One or more primary outcomes is reported using measurements, analysis methods or subsets of the data (e.g., early onset preeclampsia, late onset preeclampsia) that were not pre-specified; One or more reported primary outcomes were not pre-specified One or more outcomes of interest in the review are reported incompletely so that they cannot be entered in a meta-analysis; The study report fails to include results for a key outcome that would be expected to have been reported for such a study. |
Criteria for judgment of “Unclear risk” of bias | Insufficient information to permit judgement of ‘Low risk’ or ‘High risk’. It is likely that the majority of studies will fall into this category. |