• 1. The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450000, P. R. China;
  • 2. Affiliated Hospital of Chengde Medical University Clinical Laboratory of Nanyuan District, Chengde 067000, P. R. China;
  • 3. Department of Pediatrics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9713GZ, Netherlands;
  • 4. Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of TCM, Jinan 250014, P. R. China;
  • 5. School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, P. R. China;
  • 6. Institute of Basic Research in Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, P. R. China;
ZHAO Wenxia, Email: wenxia-zhao@163.com; LU Cuncun, Email: lu17metrics@163.com
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Clarifying the burden of disease is of great significance for determining the focus of healthcare and optimizing the allocation of medical resources. However, differences in research methods and assumptions often affect the comparability of different research results, thus leading to difficulties in healthcare decision-making. Disability-adjusted life year (DALY) is the most commonly used indicator to measure the burden of disease, but the reporting quality of disease burden studies using the DALY metric is uneven. To standardize the reporting of such studies, international scholars developed and recently published the STROBOD statement in Population Health Metrics. Its checklist includes seven parts: title, abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, and open science, involving a total of 28 items. To assist domestic scholars in better understanding and applying this reporting standard, this article interprets each item with published examples, aiming to improve the overall quality of disease burden research and provide high-quality evidence references for public health decision-making.

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