STROBE Equity Extension Survey for the Extension of the STROBE Statement for Equity – Proposed additional items or extensions of existing items for health equity-relevant studies. Observational studies could be strengthened by collection, analysis and reporting on equity findings, such as those related to differences in health and healthcare outcomes. Our international group of scientists, educators, decision-makers, ethicists, funders, and patients, using an integrated knowledge translation approach, propose to develop an extension to the STROBE (STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology) guideline to deal specifically with these disparities.The STROBE-Equity Extension will supplement the original core STROBE. Extensions of the STROBE Statements have been developed to give additional guidance for observational studies with specific designs, data and interventions, and which in this case are focused on equity.The candidate items presented in this survey were developed from a scoping review of available guidance, a methodological survey of a random sample of observational studies, and through discussions with experts on the STROBE Equity Executive and Advisory Board. Both international groups and membership are listed here.Once completed, the STROBE-Equity Extension can be used by those who have conducted observational studies that build evidence that is relevant to equity, or "equity-relevant observational studies" will use the extension, as well as those wanting to see how the observational studies are reported. In addition, this extension of STROBE for Equity can be used with other STROBE extensions. The STROBE Equity extension will be made publicly available on the Cochrane and Campbell equity methods group website.For more information, please refer to the study protocol: Improving social justice in observational studies: protocol for the development of a global and Indigenous STROBE-equity reporting guideline.The survey will remain open until January 15th, 2024. Next
