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

BACKGROUND: A 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 clinica...

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Autores principales: Gagnier, Joel J., Kienle, Gunver, Altman, Douglas G., Moher, David, Sox, Harold, Riley, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Global Advances in Health and Medicine 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3833570/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24416692
http://dx.doi.org/10.7453/gahmj.2013.008
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author Gagnier, Joel J.
Kienle, Gunver
Altman, Douglas G.
Moher, David
Sox, Harold
Riley, David
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Kienle, Gunver
Altman, Douglas G.
Moher, David
Sox, Harold
Riley, David
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description BACKGROUND: A 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 OBJECTIVE: Develop, disseminate, and implement systematic reporting guidelines for case reports. METHODS: We 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. RESULTS: This 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. CONCLUSIONS: We 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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spelling pubmed-38335702014-09-01 The CARE Guidelines: Consensus-based Clinical Case Reporting Guideline Development Gagnier, Joel J. Kienle, Gunver Altman, Douglas G. Moher, David Sox, Harold Riley, David Glob Adv Health Med Reporting Guidelines BACKGROUND: A 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 OBJECTIVE: Develop, disseminate, and implement systematic reporting guidelines for case reports. METHODS: We 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. RESULTS: This 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. CONCLUSIONS: We 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. Global Advances in Health and Medicine 2013-09 2013-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3833570/ /pubmed/24416692 http://dx.doi.org/10.7453/gahmj.2013.008 Text en © 2013 GAHM LLC. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial- No Derivative 3.0 License, which permits rights to copy, distribute and transmit the work for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited.
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