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International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(5):948-950; doi:10.1093/ije/dym199
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Editorial

Commentary: Strengthening the reporting of observational epidemiology—the STROBE statement

Matthias Egger1,*, Douglas G Altman2, Jan P Vandenbroucke3 and of the STROBE group

1Institute for Social & Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
2Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Oxford, UK.
3Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

* Corresponding author. Institute for Social & Preventive Medicine (ISPM), Finkenhubelweg 11, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland. E-mail: egger@ispm.unibe.ch

Accepted 29 August 2007

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We welcome Ebrahim and Clarke's comments1 on the STROBE Statement and are grateful for the opportunity to clarify some of the issues they raise in their editorial. What is STROBE all about? The STROBE Statement is a checklist of items that should be addressed in articles reporting cohort studies, case–control studies or cross-sectional studies, to STrengthen the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology. A short paper that presents the checklist and explains how it was developed will be published in several journals2 in October 2007, and will be freely available on the websites of these journals (see www.strobe-statement.org for links to the paper). The intention is to provide guidance on how to report observational research well: the recommendations are not prescriptions for designing or conducting . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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