(5) Selective reporting bias
We will describe for each included study how we investigated the
possibility of selective outcome reporting bias and what we found.
We will assess the methods as:
• adequate (where it is clear that all of the study’s prespecified
outcomes and all expected outcomes of interest to the
review have been reported);
• inadequate (where not all the study’s pre-specified outcomes
have been reported; one or more reported primary outcomes were
not pre-specified; outcomes of interest are reported incompletely
and so cannot be used; study fails to include results of a key
outcome that would have been expected to have been reported);
• unclear.
(6) Other sources of bias
We will describe for each included study any important concerns
we have about other possible sources of bias.
We will assess whether each study was free of other problems that
could put it at risk of bias:
• yes;
• no;
• unclear.