Is there a dark phase of this STROBE?
Suggestions for improving the reporting of observational epidemiologic studies are to be encouraged, but we believe the required use in reports of a checklist of design and analytic features relevant to study quality would have detrimental consequences.
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. brianmacmahon@aol.com
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D015340:Epidemiologic Research Design; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D019370:Observation; D011643:Publishing / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States