PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Cristina Ardura-Garcia
AU  - Rebeca Mozun
AU  - Eva S.L. Pedersen
AU  - Maria Otth
AU  - Maria Christina Mallet
AU  - Myrofora Goutaki
AU  - Claudia E. Kuehni
TI  - Paediatric cohort studies on lower respiratory diseases and their reporting quality: systematic review of the year 2018
AID  - 10.1183/13993003.00168-2020
DP  - 2020 Nov 01
TA  - European Respiratory Journal
PG  - 2000168
VI  - 56
IP  - 5
4099  - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/56/5/2000168.short
4100  - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/56/5/2000168.full
SO  - Eur Respir J2020 Nov 01; 56
AB  - The paediatric respiratory research community uses cohort studies extensively. However, the landscape of these studies and their quality of reporting has not been assessed.We performed a systematic review of publications on cohort studies reporting on paediatric lower respiratory problems published in 2018. We searched MEDLINE and Embase and extracted data on study and journal characteristics. We assessed the number of items of the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) checklist that a random sample (100 papers) reported. We analysed factors associated with the STROBE score and with the most poorly reported items, using Poisson and logistic regression.Of the 21 319 records identified, 369 full-text articles met our inclusion criteria. Most papers studied asthma aetiology through birth cohorts and were based in Europe or North America. The reporting quality was insufficient: 15% reported the 22 STROBE items; median (interquartile range) score 18 (16–21). The most poorly reported items were sources of bias, sample size, statistical methods, descriptive results and generalisability. None of the study or journal factors were associated with the STROBE score.We need a joint effort of editors, reviewers and authors to improve the reporting quality of paediatric cohort studies on respiratory problems.We need a joint effort of editors, reviewers and authors to improve the reporting quality of paediatric cohort studies for respiratory problems https://bit.ly/2ykRAyq