This is a draft critical appraisal sheet for case reports. Would be interested in your views. Critical Appraisal is used to glean scientific evidence from papers. Case reports or case series are not normally considered as part of this process. The reason is that there is usually no hypothesis testing or comparison within a case […]
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The earliest 1918 pandemic “influenza” case report?
King Alfonso of Spain appears to be the first case reported in the newspapers in May 1918 followed by several cases in the medical press including a case series of fifty in July 1918 in the BMJ. I’ve been looking for the earliest case reports of the flu in 1918 which seems to have first […]
What is the most highly cited case report?
One criticism against case reports is that although they are widely read they are not often cited. I’ve therefore been looking for the case report or case series that has the highest number of academic citations. At the moment the best I’ve found is: James A.R. Nicoll, David Wilkinson, Clive Holmes, Phil Steart, Hannah Markham […]
Earliest case report in BMJ archive?
Although there are some cases described by Mr Greenhow of the practical use of his fracture bed1 (traction device for the treatment of leg and thigh fractures) in the very earliest issue of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal it is in the form of a letter. I needed to go to the second issue, […]