Apr 27, 2019 Methods and Processes of Developing the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology -

Modifications or additions were made to the STROBE items numbered as follows: 1 (title and abstract), 3 (objectives), 5 (setting), 6 (participants), 7 (vari-ables), 8 (data sources/measurement), 9 (bias), 10 (study size), 12 (statistical methods), 13 (participants), 14 (descriptive data), 15 (outcome data), 16 (main results), 17 (other analyses), 19 (limitations) and 22 (funding). Published literature was not always available to support modification to, or inclusion of, an item. The methods and processes used in the development of this statement were similar to those used for other extensions of the STROBE statement. The use of this extension to the STROBE statement should improve the reporting of observational studies in veterinary research related to animal health, production, welfare or food safety outcomes by recognizing the unique features of observational studies involving food-producing and companion animals, products of animal origin, aquaculture and wildlife.

[1]  M. Egger,et al.  Explanation and Elaboration Document for the STROBE‐Vet Statement: Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology—Veterinary Extension , 2016, Journal of veterinary internal medicine.

[2]  P. Horby,et al.  CONSISE statement on the reporting of Seroepidemiologic Studies for influenza (ROSES‐I statement): an extension of the STROBE statement , 2016, Influenza and other respiratory viruses.

[3]  Paolo Vineis,et al.  Strengthening the Reporting of Molecular Epidemiology for Infectious Diseases (STROME-ID): an extension of the STROBE statement. , 2014, The Lancet. Infectious diseases.

[4]  N. Noah.  Strengthening the reporting of molecular epidemiology for infectious diseases (STROME-ID): an extension of the STROBE statement , 2014, Epidemiology and Infection.

[5]  Jan M Sargeant,et al.  Issues of reporting in observational studies in veterinary medicine. , 2014, Preventive veterinary medicine.

[6]  J. Ioannidis,et al.  STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology — Molecular Epidemiology STROBE-ME: an extension of the STROBE statement [J Clin Epidemiol 2011;64(12):1350–1363] , 2012 .

[7]  J. Losilla,et al.  Methodological quality assessment tools of non-experimental studies: a systematic review , 2012 .

[8]  D. Altman,et al.  the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial , 2011 .

[9]  M. Faires,et al.  Reporting of methodological features in observational studies of pre-harvest food safety. , 2011, Preventive veterinary medicine.

[10]  R. Kane,et al.  A systematic review of tools used to assess the quality of observational studies that examine incidence or prevalence and risk factors for diseases. , 2010, Journal of clinical epidemiology.

[11]  J. Sargeant,et al.  The REFLECT Statement: Reporting Guidelines for Randomized Controlled Trials in Livestock and Food Safety: Explanation and Elaboration † , 2010, Journal of food protection.

[12]  D. Moher,et al.  Guidance for Developers of Health Research Reporting Guidelines , 2010, PLoS medicine.

[13]  J. Ioannidis,et al.  Strengthening the reporting of genetic association studies (STREGA): an extension of the STROBE statement , 2009, European Journal of Epidemiology.

[14]  A. Hoes,et al.  Poor quality of reporting confounding bias in observational intervention studies: a systematic review. , 2008, Annals of epidemiology.

[15]  David Moher,et al.  Methods and processes of the CONSORT Group: example of an extension for trials assessing nonpharmacologic treatments. , 2008, Annals of internal medicine.

[16]  Jan P Vandenbroucke,et al.  The making of STROBE. , 2007, Epidemiology.

[17]  S. Pocock,et al.  The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies. , 2007, Preventive medicine.

[18]  S. Pocock,et al.  Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE): Explanation and Elaboration , 2007, PLoS medicine.

[19]  J. Higgins,et al.  Tools for assessing quality and susceptibility to bias in observational studies in epidemiology: a systematic review and annotated bibliography. , 2007, International journal of epidemiology.

[20]  Douglas G. Altman,et al.  The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel-group randomised trials , 2001, The Lancet.

[21]  Paolo Vineis,et al.  STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology - Molecular Epidemiology (STROBE-ME): an extension of the STROBE statement. , 2011, Preventive medicine.

[22]  D. R. Smith,et al.  The REFLECT statement: methods and processes of creating reporting guidelines for randomized controlled trials for livestock and food safety. , 2010, Journal of food protection.

[23]  E. Zintzaras,et al.  Assessing the quality of reporting of observational studies in cancer. , 2010, Annals of epidemiology.

[24]  S. Martin,et al.  Veterinary Epidemiologic Research , 2009 .

[25]  A. Dobson,et al.  Quality of reporting of observational longitudinal research. , 2005, American journal of epidemiology.

[26]  Clifford Goodman,et al.  Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition , 1988 .