We are pleased to announce BMJ Case Reports has now published over 15,000 cases online. BMJ Case Reports is an important educational resource offering a high volume of cases in all disciplines so that healthcare professionals, researchers and others can easily find clinically important information on common and rare conditions. Seema Biswas, Editor in Chief […]
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Creating secondary learning resources from the BMJ Case Reports through social-media based discussion groups
Social Networks like Facebook and the recently unveiled G+ besides the obvious connotations of helping to connect with friends, family and co-workers, have wider and rather far reaching implications in the domain of Healthcare which is traditionally dictated by strict one to one communication between the attending doctor and the patient. However with the Internet […]
PatientsLikeMe study refutes Lithium use in motorneurone disease
Case Reports usually involve just the one patient. When patients get together and join a social network their shared experiences could be used to evaluate research questions that would otherwise go unexplored or take time to answer. This is exactly what the website PatientsLikeMe claim to have done with the use of Lithium Carbonate in […]
‘Quality and Safety in Medicine’ Series
Markers to measure quality and safety in health care are much debated. A decline in adverse event reporting may represent a genuine decline in adverse events or merely a decline in their reporting; just as a rise in the reporting of poor outcomes may represent significant cultural changes in a healthcare system more vigilant or […]
Searching whilst feeding
Had one of those yes-this-is-how-it-could-work moments recently. I was sat at the back of a departmental lunchtime meeting (in Turo) recently eating a cake and clocking up some CPD. There was a presentation on ‘refeeding syndrome’ and I managed to search BMJ Case Reports for ‘refeeding syndrome’ on my recently acquired smartphone and found several […]
360 degree case reports – e.g. rheumatoid arthritis
I highly recommend reading a recent case report published in the BMJ that talks about rheumatoid arthritis from the perspectives of the patient, her clinician and the National Rheumatoid Society that she represents. (1) It is an historic account of her disease from presentation, how treatments have changed over the last 20 years, and the […]
Case Reports in the era of Evidence-Based Medicine
Had a debate at the recent Warwick Medical School Journal Club workshop on case reports. “This house believes that case reports are a waste of time in the era of evidence-based medicine.” The students from medical schools over the UK came up with many of the arguments for and against the motion. for the motion […]
BMJ Case Reports wins Best New Journal 2010
BMJ Case Reports wins Best New Journal 2010 at The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) awards. I spent yesterday evening at the awards dinner in Bedfordshire where the journal picked up the award of best new journal. This is a great achievement for Janet O’Flaherty, journals publisher at BMJ Group, and her […]
“Pediatric” case reports now in vogue?
The American Academy of Pediatrics’ journal ‘Pediatrics’ has made public its New Year’s resolutions in an editorial called “The Next Generation of Pediatrics”. First LR, Moyer VA, Puskarz J. The Next Generation of Pediatrics. PEDIATRICS. 2010 1;125(1):193-194. In it they announce the relaunch of case reports with some excellent selection criteria namely reports that: “(1) […]
Finding your doctor through their published case reports
Had a very interesting communication from a BMJ Case Reports author who was contacted by a patient’s family because the patient was suffering from a similar condition to that which the author had just published. This raises interesting points about the role of the medical literature and the increasing ability of patients and their relatives […]