STROBE Initiative Group 2010 Revision Group
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STROBE initiative group Douglas G. Altman Professor of Medical Statistics, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Wolfson College Annexe, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UD, UK. Matthias Egger Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Finkenhubelweg 11, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland Peter C. Gøtzsche Director, Nordic Cochrane Centre, Rigshospitalet, Dept. 3343, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark Stuart J. Pocock Professor of Medical Statistics, Medical Statistics Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK Jan P. Vandenbroucke Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Dept. of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Hospital, CO-P, PO Box 9600, NL-2300 RC Leiden, Netherlands Erik von Elm Codirector Cochrane Switzerland, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Corniche 10, CH-1010 Lausanne, Switzerland 2010 Revision group Douglas G. Altman Professor of Medical Statistics, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Wolfson College Annexe, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UD, UK. Myriam Cevallos Christen Research Fellow, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Finkenhubelweg 11, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland Bruno da Costa PhD Candidate, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Finkenhubelweg 11, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland Matthias Egger Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Finkenhubelweg 11, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland Patrizia Frei Cancer epidemiologist, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Socinstrasse 57, 4051 Base Peter C. Gøtzsche Director, Nordic Cochrane Centre, Rigshospitalet, Dept. 3343, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark Cindy Mulrow Senior Deputy Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine, Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Centre, San Antonio, USA Landon Myer Associate Professor of School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Unit, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Stuart J. Pocock Professor of Medical Statistics, Medical Statistics Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK Charlie Poole Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, North Carolina, USA Andrew Renehan Senior Lecturer in Cancer Studies and Surgery, University of Manchester, Christie Hospital NHS Trust, Manchster ,United Kingdom Jan P. Vandenbroucke Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Dept. of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Hospital, CO-P, PO Box 9600, NL-2300 RC Leiden, Netherlands Erik von Elm Codirector Cochrane Switzerland, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Corniche 10, CH-1010 Lausanne, Switzerland Additional contributors Maria Blettner Professor of Epidemiology, Institut für Medizinische Biometrie, Epidemiologie und Informatik der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität,D-55101 Mainz, Germany Paolo Boffetta Genetics and Epidemiology Cluster International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, 69008 Lyon, France Hermann Brenner Professor of Epidemiology, Dept. of Epidemiology, The German Centre for Research on Ageing, University of Heidelberg, Bergheimer Str. 20, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany Geneviève Chêne Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, INSERM Unité 593, University of Bordeaux, 146 Rue Leo Saignat, F-33076 Bordeaux Cedex, France Cyrus Cooper Professor, MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK. George Davey Smith Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Social Medicine, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol, BS8 2PR, UK France Gagnon Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Room 3227, Ontario, Canada K1H 8M5 Philip Greenland Harry W. Dingman Professor and Chair, Dept. of Preventive Medicine, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 680 N. Lake Shore Drive, 1102 Chicago, IL 60611 Sander Greenland Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California 90095-1772, USA Claire Infante-Rivard Professor, McGill University, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine, 1130 Pine Avenue West, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 1A3 John Ioannidis Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece Astrid James Deputy Editor, The Lancet, 32 Jamestown Road, London NW1 7BY, UK Giselle Jones Papers Editor, BMJ Editorial, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JR, UK Bruno Ledergerber Senior researcher, Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zürich, Rämistr. 100, CH-8091 Zürich, Switzerland Julian Little Professor of Molecular and Human Genome Epidemiology, Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Genomics Health, Services Research and Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8M5 Margaret May Dept. of Social Medicine, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK David Moher Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Chalmers Research Group,Childrens' Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, University of Ottawa, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa,Ontario K1H 8L1, Canada Hooman Momen Editor Bulletin of the WHO, World Health Organization EIP/KMS/PLT, Av. Appia 20, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland Alfredo Morabia Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Editor Sozial- und Präventivmedizin / Int J Public Health, University of Geneva, Service d'Epidémiologie clinique, 25 Rue Micheli-du-Crest, CH-1205 Genève, Switzerland Hal Morgenstern Professor and Chair, Dept.of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 109 Observatory Street, Ann Arbor MI 48109-2029 Cynthia D. Mulrow MD MSc FACP, Deputy Editor Annals of Internal Medicine, 6415 Pemwoods, San Antonio, TX 78240, USA Fred Paccaud Professor, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Drummond Rennie Ass. Editor, JAMA and Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, Institute for Health Policy Studies, 9627 Sterling Creek Rd. Jacksonville, OR 97530-9333, USA Dietrich Rothenbacher Senior Researcher, Dept. of Epidemiology, The German Centre for Research on Ageing, University of Heidelberg, Bergheimer Str. 20, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany Kenneth Rothman Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, founding editor Epidemiology Caroline Sabin Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Dept. of Primary Care and Population Sciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School, Rowland Hill St., London NW3 SPF, UK Willi Sauerbrei Department of Medical Biometry and Statistics, University Medical Center, Stefan-Meier-Strasse 26,D-79104 Freiburg, Germany Lale Say Senior Researcher, Monitoring & Evaluation, Dept. of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, 20, Avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland James J. Schlesselman Director Biostatistics Facility, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Sterling Plaza Suite 325, 201 North Craig Street, Pittsburgh PA 15213, USA Jonathan Sterne Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Dept. of Social Medicine, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK Holly Syddall MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK Ian White MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK Susan Wieland Department of Community Health, Brown University, Box G, Providence RI 02912, USA Hywel Williams Professor, Centre of Evidence-Based Dermatology, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK Guang Yong Zou Robarts Research Institute 1, 1st floor, PO BOX 5015, 100 Perth Drive, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5K8 .