Abstract
Writing case reports for ecancer.
Highlights
In this age of evidence-based medicine, case reports and case series have been described as ‘the lowest form of intellectual life’ and a leading anaesthesia journal carried an editorial on whether case reports should be ‘confined to the dustbin’ [3, 4]!
Case reports often provide the first possibility of an association or link, and form the basis for future structured research, as shown by initial publications documenting the relationship between thalidomide and phocomelia [7, 8]
Clinical trials usually accrue patients who are free from major co-morbidities; the extensive exclusion criteria of these trials reduce the generalizability of their results to the general population
Summary
In this age of evidence-based medicine, case reports and case series have been described as ‘the lowest form of intellectual life’ and a leading anaesthesia journal carried an editorial on whether case reports should be ‘confined to the dustbin’ [3, 4]! Because of their low propensity to be cited, several journals have stopped accepting case reports for publication [5].
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