A guide to writing and using case reports

A guide to writing and using case reports

A thematic series published in Journal of Medical Case Reports.

A valuable resource for clinicians in the form of a special series of editorials, which comprise a guide to writing and using case reports.

Another important publication in the journal for reference when writing and using case reports is, “A guide to writing case reports for the Journal of Medical Case Reports and BioMed Central Research Notes”, which was published in 2013 and written by Richard Rison.

1. Content Type:Editorial

   How to apply clinical cases and medical literature in the framework of a modified “failure mode and effects analysis” as a clinical reasoning tool – an illustration using the human biliary system

   Clinicians use various clinical reasoning tools such as Ishikawa diagram to enhance their clinical experience and reasoning skills. Failure mode and effects analysis, which is an engineering methodology in ori...

   Authors:Kam Cheong Wong

   Citation:Journal of Medical Case Reports 2016 10:85

   Published on: 6 April 2016

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2. Content Type:Editorial

   Case reports in medical education: a platform for training medical students, residents, and fellows in scientific writing and critical thinking

   A case report is a detailed narrative that usually illustrates a diagnostic or therapeutic problem experienced by one or several patients. Case reports commonly serve as the first line of evidence for new inte...

   Authors:Aleksandra G. Florek and Robert P. Dellavalle

   Citation:Journal of Medical Case Reports 2016 10:86

   Published on: 6 April 2016

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3. Content Type:Editorial

   How to apply case reports in clinical practice using surrogate models via example of the trigeminocardiac reflex

   Case reports are an increasing source of evidence in clinical medicine. Until a few years ago, such case reports were emerged into systematic reviews and nowadays they are often fitted to the development of cl...

   Authors:Nora Sandu, Tumul Chowdhury and Bernhard J. Schaller

   Citation:Journal of Medical Case Reports 2016 10:84

   Published on: 6 April 2016

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4. Content Type:Editorial

   How to review a case report

   Authors:Rakesh Garg, Shaheen E. Lakhan and Ananda K. Dhanasekaran

   Citation:Journal of Medical Case Reports 2016 10:88

   Published on: 6 April 2016

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5. Content Type:Editorial

   How to write a neurology case report

   Neurology case reports have a long history of transmitting important medical information across many generations for the improvement of patient care. Case reports contribute much to the physician’s knowledge b...

   Authors:Richard A. Rison

   Citation:Journal of Medical Case Reports 2016 10:91

   Published on: 6 April 2016

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6. Content Type:Editorial

   When to write a neurology case report

   Authors:Richard A. Rison, Jennifer Kelly Shepphird and Said R. Beydoun

   Citation:Journal of Medical Case Reports 2016 10:92

   Published on: 6 April 2016

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7. Content Type:Editorial

   How to write a case report in nephrology

   Authors:Varun Agrawal

   Citation:Journal of Medical Case Reports 2016 10:87

   Published on: 6 April 2016

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