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ArticleJournal of medical case reports2016

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

Nora Sandu, Tumul Chowdhury, Bernhard J Schaller, Trigemino-Cardiac Reflex Examination Group (TCREG)

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Article in Journal of medical case reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Nora SanduDepartement of Research, University of Southampton, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.
Tumul ChowdhuryDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Manitoba, 671 William Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 0Z2, Canada.
Bernhard J SchallerDepartement of Research, University of Southampton, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK. bernhardjschaller@gmail.com.
Trigemino-Cardiac Reflex Examination Group (TCREG)

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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 clinical (thinking) models. We describe this modern progress of knowledge creation by the example of the trigeminocardiac reflex that was first described in 1999 by a case series and was developed over the cause-and-effect relationship, triangulation to systematic reviews and finally to thinking models. Therefore, this editorial not only underlines the increasing and outstanding importance of (unique) case reports in current science, but also in current clinical decision-making and therefore also that of specific journals like the Journal of Medical Case Reports.

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Clinical MedicineMedical RecordsReflex, TrigeminocardiacHumansModels, BiologicalCase reportModel thinkingSkull base surgeryTrigeminocardiac reflex

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PMID27048202
PMCPMC4822233

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