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ArticleGlobal advances in health and medicine2013

The CARE Guidelines: Consensus-based Clinical Case Reporting Guideline Development.

Joel J Gagnier, Gunver Kienle, Douglas G Altman, David Moher, Harold Sox, David Riley, CARE Group*

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Article in Global advances in health and medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 682 papers, 16 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

682 citing papers in PubMed, 16 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Joel J GagnierDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Michigan, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States.
Gunver KienleInstitute for Applied Epistemology and Medical Methodology, University of Witten/Herdecke, Freiburg, Germany.
Douglas G AltmanCentre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
David MoherOttawa Hospital Research Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario.
Harold SoxThe Dartmouth Institute and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.
David Rileyeditor-in-chief, Global Advances in Health and Medicine, Portland, Oregon, United States.
CARE Group*

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundA case report is a narrative that describes, for medical, scientific, or educational purposes, a medical problem experienced by one or more patients. Case reports written without guidance from reporting standards are insufficiently rigorous to guide clinical practice or to inform clinical study design. PRIMARY

objectiveDevelop, disseminate, and implement systematic reporting guidelines for case reports.

methodsWe used a three-phase consensus process consisting of (1) premeeting literature review and interviews to generate items for the reporting guidelines, (2) a face-to-face consensus meeting to draft the reporting guidelines, and (3) postmeeting feedback, review, and pilot testing, followed by finalization of the case report guidelines.

resultsThis consensus process involved 27 participants and resulted in a 13-item checklist-a reporting guideline for case reports. The primary items of the checklist are title, key words, abstract, introduction, patient information, clinical findings, timeline, diagnostic assessment, therapeutic interventions, follow-up and outcomes, discussion, patient perspective, and informed consent.

conclusionsWe believe the implementation of the CARE (CAse REport) guidelines by medical journals will improve the completeness and transparency of published case reports and that the systematic aggregation of information from case reports will inform clinical study design, provide early signals of effectiveness and harms, and improve healthcare delivery.

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Case reportcase studyEQUATOR Networkhealth research reporting guidelinesmeaningful usepatient reports

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PMID24416692
PMCPMC3833570

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