Abstract
Case reports comprise the core of Journal of Medical Case Reports, are a time-honored tradition firmly established within the medical literature, and represent a growing importance of valuable clinical medical information in our modern information-flowing times. While there is already a body of published literature on how and when to write a case report and both Journal of Medical Case Reports and BioMed Central make known their own criteria, case report quality across all of the medical literature is still variable. Additionally, although health reporting agencies do have standardization guidelines for other aspects of health-care reporting, there has never been an organizational body responsible for international standardization of how to write a case report. With the newly-published CARE (CAse REport) guidelines, Gagnier and colleagues hope to change this. This editorial serves as a brief introduction to the CARE guidelines and briefly examines the proposed standardization of case reports. We invite feedback on the CARE guidelines from all of our readers and encourage their trial run implementation by our own case report authors.
Highlights
Case reports comprise the core of Journal of Medical Case Reports, are a time-honored tradition firmly established within the medical literature, and represent a growing importance of valuable clinical medical information in our modern information-flowing times
* Correspondence: rison@usc.edu 1Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital Health Stroke Program, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles County Medical Center, 12401 Washington Boulevard, Whittier, CA 90602, USA Full list of author information is available at the end of the article introduction, case presentation, and so on) and when to write one [2,3], but different journals have different criteria and case report quality can be variable [4,5]
These included the Peer Review and Biomedical Publication Congress in Chicago sponsored by the British Medical Journal and the Journal of the American Medical Association on September 10, 2013, which coincided with simultaneous publication within the following medical journals: BMJ Case Reports, Deutsches Ärzteblatt, Headache, Global Advances in Health and Medicine, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Journal of Dietary Supplements and the Journal of Medical Case Reports
Summary
Case reports comprise the core of Journal of Medical Case Reports, are a time-honored tradition firmly established within the medical literature, and represent a growing importance of valuable clinical medical information in our modern information-flowing times. * Correspondence: rison@usc.edu 1Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital Health Stroke Program, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles County Medical Center, 12401 Washington Boulevard, Whittier, CA 90602, USA Full list of author information is available at the end of the article introduction, case presentation, and so on) and when to write one [2,3], but different journals have different criteria and case report quality can be variable [4,5].
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