Case reports in current medical literature

Why Medical Case Reports?

Medicine is built up of single cases. Individual patients-single cases-are the essence of what medicine deals with. Every patient is important, and every case can be a lesson. Clinician, researcher, and epidemiologist Alvan Feinstein said, "In caring for patients, clinicians constantly perform experiments. During a single week of active practice, a busy clinician conducts more experiments than ...

Current Medical Literature

Medical case reports and titleology

This paper is a diachronic analysis of a corpus of 180 titles drawn from CRs published in the BMJ and the BMJ Case Reports between 1840 and 2009. The frequency of occurrence of 69 variables (e.g. title type and length, punctuation, grammatical and syntactic data, number of authors and collaboration practices) was recorded for each title. The corpus was divided into three blocks (1840-1850, 1920...

Case reports and case series from Lancet had significant impact on medical literature.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Case reports and case series are often the first evidence of innovative treatment, but clinical trials need to follow to substantiate this evidence. The objective of this article was to evaluate case reports or case series describing innovative treatment concerning their impact. METHODS Case reports and case series (n < or = 10) from a high-impact journal, The Lancet...

Case Reports: Stories Worth Telling in Today`s Bone and Joint Literature

Case reports are considered as the lowest level of evidence while at the same time they are frontiers of evidence collection. case reports are professional stories about novel medical events and will worth publication only if they possess complexity, proper data collection, justified diagnosis, and legitimate intervention as well as appropriate language, punctuation, and syntax. A case report m...