Welcome to the STROBE Initiative!

What is STROBE?

STROBE stands for an international, collaborative initiative of epidemiologists, methodologists, statisticians, researchers and journal editors involved in the conduct and dissemination of observational studies, with the common aim of STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology.

The STROBE Statement is being endorsed by a growing number of biomedical journals. Click here for full list.

For STROBE entries in PubMed click here.

News from STROBE:

30/03/2008:

We have added a page to this website called "Forum for discussion" with STROBE-related comments that we have received by readers of the STROBE documents.

05/03/2008:

The STROBE Statement has been published in the April 2008 issue of the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, the January 2008 issue of the International Journal of Public Health and the Oct-Dec 2007 issue of the Infectious Diseases Journal of Pakistan. All three publications are accompanied by editorials. In addition, the International Journal of Public Health devotes a "Speaker's Corner" section to STROBE with two invited commentaries by Alfredo Morabia and Louise Potvin.

25/02/2008:

Two recently published commentaries highlight the implications of the STROBE recommendations for dental public health research (PMID: 18246835) and for veterinary research (PMID: 18083665).

22/02/2008:

The STROBE Initiative has received the 1st David-Sackett-Award by the German Network for Evidence-based Medicine, a German non-profit professional organisation for the advancement of public health care. The prize is awarded each year for “outstanding and sustainable work in the field of evidence-based medicine and health care”. Today's ceremony took place at the annual meeting of the network at the University of Witten-Herdecke / Germany. Click here for press release (in German).