Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting: the GATHER statement

Gretchen A Stevens; Leontine Alkema; Robert E Black; J Ties Boerma; Gary S Collins; Majid Ezzati; John T Grove; Daniel R Hogan; Margaret C Hogan; Richard Horton; Joy E Lawn; Ana Marušić; Colin D Mathers; Christopher J L Murray; Igor Rudan; Joshua A Salomon; Paul J Simpson; Theo Vos; Vivian Welch; GATHER Working Group

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002056

Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting: the GATHER statement

PLoS Med. 2016 Jun 28;13(6):e1002056. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002056. eCollection 2016 Jun.

Authors

Gretchen A Stevens¹, Leontine Alkema², Robert E Black³, J Ties Boerma¹, Gary S Collins⁴, Majid Ezzati⁵, John T Grove⁶, Daniel R Hogan¹, Margaret C Hogan⁷, Richard Horton⁸, Joy E Lawn⁹, Ana Marušić¹⁰, Colin D Mathers¹, Christopher J L Murray¹¹, Igor Rudan¹², Joshua A Salomon¹³, Paul J Simpson¹⁴, Theo Vos¹², Vivian Welch^{15

16}; GATHER Working Group

Affiliations

¹ Department of Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
² Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America.
³ Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
⁴ Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
⁶ Global Development Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
⁷ Independent consultant, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
⁸ The Lancet, London, United Kingdom.
⁹ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ Department of Research in Biomedicine and Health and Cochrane Croatia, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia.
¹¹ Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
¹² Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
¹³ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
¹⁴ PLOS Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
¹⁵ Bruyére Research Institute, Bruyére Continuing Care, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁶ Centre for Global Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Abstract

Gretchen Stevens and colleagues present the GATHER statement, which seeks to promote good practice in the reporting of global health estimates.

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Guideline

MeSH terms

Checklist
Data Collection / standards*
Epidemiologic Methods*
Global Health*
Health Services Research
Health Status Indicators*
Humans

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