Abstract
In pharmacoepidemiology, interest of studies conducted using real-world data has been increasing. RECORD-PE was developed as a reporting guideline specialized for pharmacoepidemiological studies conducted using routinely collected health data. RECORD-PE is a best practice guideline developed by the RECORD Steering Committee in order to cope with the complexity of research on pharmacoepidemiology which cannot be fully covered by STROBE and RECORD. RECORD-PE was endorsed by the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology. We translated RECORD-PE checklist and explanation, and report it here with additional brief explanation about the situation in Japan. We hope that RECORD-PE will be widely disseminated to academic journal reviewers and readers and that the quality of reports on pharmacoepidemiological studies using routinely collected health data in Japan will improve.
