Defined term · Evidence assessment
Selective outcome reporting
The reporting of a subset of measured outcomes chosen after the results were known. Detected by comparing the published report with the registered protocol, which the Institute does for every…
§1Selective outcome reporting
§1.2Category
Evidence assessment — Terms describing how the Institute judges and reports the strength of evidence.
§1.3Related terms
- Publication bias — The risk that the studies available to a review are not a representative sample of the studies conducted, most often because studies with unfavourable results were not…
- Protocol registration — The recording of a review question, eligibility criteria and analysis plan before the search is executed. Registration is what makes a subsequent change identifiable as…
Compound Evidence Institute · CEI-GT-015 · https://compoundevidence.com/glossary/selective-outcome-reporting/ · retrieved 30 July 2026