Harold C. Sox

TL;DR: 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.

TL;DR: This issue contains both this article, which is a commentary on the IOM committee report, and a perspective on better research methods for CER, which consisted of the elements of earlier definitions reduced to 2 sentences.

TL;DR: A case report is a narrative that describes, for medical, scientific, or educational purposes, a medical problem experienced by one or more patients.

TL;DR: 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.

TL;DR: The CARE (CAse REport) guidelines for case report guidelines as mentioned in this paper were developed by a three-phase consensus process consisting of pre-meeting literature review and interviews to generate items for the reporting guidelines, a face-to-face consensus meeting to draft the reporting guideline, and postmeeting feedback, review and pilot testing, followed by finalisation of the case report guideline.