Skip to main content

The importance of case reporting

Edited by: Prof Michael Kidd

A thematic series published in Journal of Medical Case Reports.

  2. We are in the era of "evidence based medicine" in which our knowledge is stratified from top to bottom in a hierarchy of evidence. Many in the medical and dental communities highly value randomized clinical tr...

    Authors: Oded Yitschaky, Michael Yitschaky and Yehuda Zadik
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:179
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  3. Medical case reports (MCRs) have been undervalued in the literature to date. It seems that while case series emphasize what is probable, case reports describe what is possible and what can go wrong. MCRs trans...

    Authors: Aristotle D Protopapas and Thanos Athanasiou
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:164
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  4. We describe the discovery of the trigemino-cardiac reflex by Schaller in 1999 and the continued improvement of the knowledge about the trigemino-cardiac reflex involved in neurosurgery, especially in skull bas...

    Authors: Nora Sandu, Pooan Sadr-Eshkevari and Bernhard J Schaller
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:149
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  6. From antiquity to present day, the act of recording and publishing our observations with patients remains essential to the art of medicine and the care of patients. Neurology is rich with case reports over the...

    Authors: Richard A Rison
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:113
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  7. Clinical decision making can be challenging for both generalists and specialists. Case reports may assist the decision making process either by providing guidance to generalists on identifying rarer conditions...

    Authors: Geoff Wong
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2:311
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  8. Some of the earliest case reports describing individual patients afflicted with cancer can be traced all the way back to the papyrus records of Ancient Egyptian medicine of approximately 1600 B.C.. Throughout ...

    Authors: Elie G Dib, Michael R Kidd and Deborah C Saltman
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2:39
    Content type: Editorial Published on: