Case reports: A helping hand to generalists

Clinical decision making can be challenging for both generalists and specialists. Case reports may assist the decision making process either by providing guidance to generalists on identifying rarer conditions or a searchable database for looking up seemingly disparate symptoms. This editorial highl...

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Autor principal: Wong, Geoff
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Editorial
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2561039/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18822140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-311
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description Clinical decision making can be challenging for both generalists and specialists. Case reports may assist the decision making process either by providing guidance to generalists on identifying rarer conditions or a searchable database for looking up seemingly disparate symptoms. This editorial highlights the innovations being implemented by Journal of Medical Case Reports and Cases Journal in developing an educational resource to help clinicians in decision-making.
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spelling pubmed-25610392008-10-04 Case reports: A helping hand to generalists Wong, Geoff J Med Case Reports Editorial Clinical decision making can be challenging for both generalists and specialists. Case reports may assist the decision making process either by providing guidance to generalists on identifying rarer conditions or a searchable database for looking up seemingly disparate symptoms. This editorial highlights the innovations being implemented by Journal of Medical Case Reports and Cases Journal in developing an educational resource to help clinicians in decision-making. BioMed Central 2008-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC2561039/ /pubmed/18822140 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-311 Text en Copyright © 2008 Wong; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2561039/
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