About the Authors
- Jan P Vandenbroucke
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Erik von Elm
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Affiliations Institute of Social & Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland , Department of Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics, University Medical Centre, Freiburg, Germany
- Douglas G Altman
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Affiliation Cancer Research UK/NHS Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Peter C Gøtzsche
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Affiliation Nordic Cochrane Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Cynthia D Mulrow
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Affiliation University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, United States of America
- Stuart J Pocock
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Affiliation Medical Statistics Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- Charles Poole
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, United States of America
- James J Schlesselman
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, United States of America
- Matthias Egger
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: strobe@ispm.unibe.ch
Affiliations Institute of Social & Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland , Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- for the STROBE Initiative
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
All authors contributed to the writing of the paper. JPV, EvE, DGA, PCG, SJP, and ME wrote the first draft of different sections of the paper. EvE takes care of most of the practical coordination of STROBE. ME initiated STROBE and, together with EvE, organised the first workshop.