Evidence based case reports

02B. Case Reports in an Evidence-based World

Case reports have helped identify effects from interventions and recognize new or rare diseases. Data from case reports—increasingly published in indexed medical journals—are beginning to be systematically collected and reported. However, the quality of published case reports is uneven. One study evaluated 1316 case reports from four emergency medicine journals and found that more than half fai...

Case reports in the era of evidence-based medicine.

Case Reports, Case Series – From Clinical Practice to Evidence-Based Medicine in Graduate Medical Education

Case reports and case series or case study research are descriptive studies that are prepared for illustrating novel, unusual, or atypical features identified in patients in medical practice, and they potentially generate new research questions. They are empirical inquiries or investigations of a patient or a group of patients in a natural, real-world clinical setting. Case study research is a ...

INTERFERON INDUCED CARDIOMYOPATHY: CASE REPORTS

There are few reports concerning interferon induced myocardial dysfunction. A known case of multiple myeloma who was receiving interferon alpha (IFA) for 14 months was brought to the emergency room in frank: pulmonary edema. After treatment of heart failure and discontinuation of interferon alpha, he remained asymptomatic thereafter. Another case of chronic active hepatitis on IFA complain...

Generating Reports from Case-Based Knowledge Artifacts

Knowledge artifacts are units retained in repository-based knowledge management systems (KMS). When adopting cases as the representation for knowledge artifacts in KMS, one of the benefits is the automated construction of reports.