Development of the standards of reporting of neuro

Authors: Derrick A Bennett Carol Brayne Valery L Feigin Suzanne BarkerCollo Michael Brainin Daniel Davis Valentina Gallo Nathalie Jetté André Karch John F Kurtzke Pablo M Lavados Giancarlo Logroscino Gabriele Nagel PierreMarie Preux Peter M Rothwell Lawrence W Svenson

Publish Date: 2015/06/19

Volume: 30, Issue: 7, Pages: 569-576

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Abstract

Incidence and prevalence studies of neurological disorders play an important role in assessing the burden of disease and planning services However the assessment of disease estimates is hindered by problems in reporting for such studies Despite a growth in published reports existing guidelines relate to analytical rather than descriptive epidemiological studies There are also no userfriendly tools eg checklists available for authors editors and peerreviewers to facilitate best practice in reporting of descriptive epidemiological studies for most neurological disorders The Standards of Reporting of Neurological Disorders STROND is a guideline that consists of recommendations and a checklist to facilitate better reporting of published incidence and prevalence studies of neurological disorders A review of previously developed guidance was used to produce a list of items required for incidence and prevalence studies in neurology A threeround Delphi technique was used to identify the ‘basic minimum items’ important for reporting as well as some additional ‘ideal reporting items’ An econsultation process was then used in order to gauge opinion by external neuroepidemiological experts on the appropriateness of the items included in the checklist Of 38 candidate items 15 items and accompanying recommendations were developed along with a userfriendly checklist The introduction and use of the STROND checklist should lead to more consistent transparent and contextualised reporting of descriptive neuroepidemiological studies resulting in more applicable and comparable findings and ultimately support better healthcare decisionsSuzanne BarkerCollo Michael Brainin Daniel Davis Valentina Gallo Nathalie Jetté André Karch John F Kurtzke Pablo M Lavados Giancarlo Logroscino Gabriele Nagel PierreMarie Preux Peter M Rothwell and Lawrence W Svenson authors are in alphabetical orderDr Derrick Bennett Nuffield Department of Population Health University of Oxford Oxford UK Professor Carol Brayne Department of Public Health and Primary Care University of Cambridge Cambridge UK Professor Valery Feigin National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences AUT University Auckland New Zealand Helen McDonald National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences AUT University Auckland New ZealandProfessor Michael Brainin Department for Clinical Medicine and Preventive Medicine DanubeUniversity Krems Austria Professor PierreMarie Preux Institute of Tropical Neurology University of Limoges Limoges France Professor Peter Rothwell Stroke Prevention Unit University of Oxford Oxford UK Dr Pablo M Lavados Vascular Neurology and Stroke Unit Neurology Service Department of Medicine Clínica Alemana de Santiago Universidad del Desarrollo and Department of Neurological Sciences Universidad de Chile Institute of Neurosurgery Santiago Chile Emeritus Professor John F Kurtzke Georgetown UniversityUSA Dr Suzanne BarkerCollo Department of Psychology University of Auckland New Zealand Dr Daniel Davis Faculty of Population Health Sciences University College London UK Dr Valentina Gallo Centre of Primary Care and Public Health Blizard Institute Queen Mary University of London UK Dr Nathalie Jetté Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Hotchkiss Brain Institute Department of Community Health Sciences and O’Brien Institute for Public Health University of Calgary Canada André Karch Research Group Epidemiology and Statistical Methods Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research Lawrence W Svenson School of Public Health University of Alberta Canada Professor Giancarlo Logroscino Neurodegenerative Diseases Unit Department of Basic Medicine Neurosciences and Sense Organs and Department of Clinical Research in Neurology presso Fondazione Card Panico TricaseUniversity Aldo Moro Bari Italy Gabriele Nagel Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry University of Ulm Ulm Germany

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