[3] The STROBE Statement was developed by the STROBE Initiative, an international collaboration of epidemiologists, methodologists, statisticians, researchers and journal editors with the aim to assist authors when writing up analytical observational studies, to support editors and reviewers when considering such articles for publication, and to help readers when critically appraising published articles.
[4] There are many extensions to the STROBE Statement which cover a variety of different topic domains such as nutritional epidemiology,[5][6][7] genetic association studies,[8] rheumatology,[9][10] molecular epidemiology,[11] infectious disease molecular epidemiology,[12] respondent-driven sampling,[13] routinely collected health data[14][15] (e.g., health administrative data, electronic health records, and registry data), antimicrobial stewardship programs,[16] seroepidemiologic studies for influenza,[17] medical abortion, simulation-based research, newborn infection,[18] veterinary,[19] and sports injury and illness.
An assessment of extension content[22] as well as a survey of authors of observational studies[23][24] provided several areas to improve upon.
The STROBE Statement has also been adapted as a public, open-source repository for epidemiological research methods and reporting skills for observational studies.
Epidemiologists, statisticians, and public health researchers are able to comment and edit the tool to inform future updates of the reporting guideline.