The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies.

By E. von Elm, Douglas G. Altman, Matthias Egger, Stuart J. Pocock, P. Gøtzsche, Jan P. Vandenbroucke. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2007

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Much biomedical research is observational. The reporting of such research is often inadequate, which hampers the assessment of its strengths and weaknesses and of a study's generalizability. The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Initiative developed recommendations on what should be included in an accurate and complete report of an observational study. We defined the scope of the recommendations to cover three main study designs: cohort, case-control and cross-sectional studies. We convened a two-day workshop, in September 2004, with methodologists, researchers and journal editors to draft a checklist of items. This list was subsequently revised during several meetings of the coordinating group and in e-mail discussions with the larger group of STROBE contributors, taking into account empirical evidence and methodological considerations. The workshop and the subsequent iterative process of consultation and revision resulted in a checklist of 22 items (the STROBE Statement) that relate to the title, abstract, introduction, methods, results and discussion sections of articles. Eighteen items are common to all three study designs and four are specific for cohort, case-control, or cross-sectional studies. A detailed Explanation and Elaboration document is published separately and is freely available on the web sites of PLoS Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology. We hope that the STROBE Statement will contribute to improving the quality of reporting of observational studies.

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• The REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely-collected health Data (RECORD) Statement (2015, methodology): “The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement was developed to enhance the transparency of reporting of observational research [10,11] and has been widely adopted and endorsed by leading medical journals.”
• A systematic review of dropout from organized sport among children and youth (2015, methodology): “Study quality was assessed by the first author using a scale adapted from the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Initiative statement (Von Elma et al., 2007).”
• Eating out of home and its association with dietary intake: a systematic review of the evidence (2012, background): “These criteria were previously proposed for reporting of observational studies (11) and adapted for the use in dietary assessment surveys as reviewed in the present paper.”
• Peri-implant health and disease. A systematic review of current epidemiology. (2015, methodology): “In order to assess the quality of reporting the STROBE checklist (Vandenbroucke et al. 2007; von Elm et al. 2008) was applied.”