Understanding Clinical Papers. David Bowers

chapter. The guidelines of interest for reporting observational analytic studies are the STROBE guidelines: STROBE stands for STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology . The guidance covers what should be set out in cohort analytic studies, case–control studies and analytic cross‐sectional studies. Clinical research papers will sometimes allude to conformity with the STROBE guidelines and, in general, where they do so the account should adequately cover all of the components referred to above. Some journals will insist that all authors apply the guidelines and submit a checklist of the items; the checklist is not usually published but is used by the peer reviewers and editors.