Guidelines to authors in Writing an effective Medical Case Report - Scientific Research

MCRs can be from any area ofmedicine, nursing, dentistry,and veterinary science. Somecontains an extensive reviewof the relevant literature on thetopic.


MEDICAL CASE REPORT

Medical Case reports (or thecase study or the case history)disseminate clinical practices,examines clinical scenarios,and illustrates a diagnostic orrapeutic problem experiencedby one or several patients.

Communicating to the medicalfraternity about an unusual orpreviously unknown condition,a rarepresentation or a newcomplication of a knowndisease, or a new approach forcuring a common disease.

Detailed report of thesymptoms, signs, diagnosis,treatment, and follow-up of anindividual patient.

First-line of evidence ofmedical literature and thecornerstones of medicalprogress to provide newideas in medicine.

Rapid short communicationbetween busy cliniciansshort of time to do largescale research.


STRUCTURE OF MEDICAL CASE REPORT (MCR)

The structure of MCR depends on the journal it has to be published, and some may require a literature review also.

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Casepresentation

DiscussionConclusionsReferencesPatientperspective

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Many reputed and renowned journals publish MCRs for the following among other reasons.:

Illustrates important clinical guideline orsystematic review.

A new and unexpected associationbetween diseases or symptoms.

An unexpected new observation foundduring the treatment of a patient.

Illustrates important best practiceteaching message.

An adverse effect or any finding that sheds lighton the possible pathogenesis of a disease.

Rare and unique features of a disease.

Variations of anatomical structures

Unique therapeutic approaches.

A common disease presenting ina different and uncommon way.

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The following are the key elements to be included in CCR for its successful publication inreputed journals:

Precisely reflect the case with a list of the fullnames, institutional address and email addressesfor all authors (e.g. “end the title with”….a casereport” or …two case reports” or “… a case series”).

Title

Short and sweet, not exceeding 350 words. Structured into Background, introduction, casepresentation, brief details of patients and briefconclusion.

Serves as the sales pitch for the rest of themanuscript. Presents a clear, concise and precisemessage ofthe case, including the disorder,progression and explanation. Remember, the caseshould involve a new or unusual or previouslyunknown health issues.

Presents all relevant details including demographicinformation, medical history of the patient, symptomsand signs, any tests that were carried out. Presents ina chronological order, starting with the primarycompliant followed by physical examination, alongwith pertinent investigation. Structured properly as perthe guidelines of the journal.

Abstract

Introduction Case presentation

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Evaluate the patient case for accuracy, uniqueness,and validity and compare and contrast the casereport with the published literature.

Discussion

Short and concise with clear takehome message.

Appropriate and correct.

Conclusion

References

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MCRs could be the steppingstonesof researches and could bring hopeto patients of manydiseases.

Researchers, clinicians, regulators andpatients can explore Cases database(http://www.casesdatabase.com/) acontinually updated (repository 27,915peer-reviewed medical case reports from250 journals), freely accessible databaseof thousands of medical case reportsfrommultiple publishers including PubMedCentral, British Medical Journals, andSpringer.


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