Writing Case Reports A Practical Guide from Conception through Publication /

• Main Authors: Packer, Clifford D. (Author), Berger, Gabrielle N. (Author), Mookherjee, Somnath (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; General practice (Medicine).; Medicine & Public Health.; General Practice / Family Medicine.

This book provides medical students and physicians with a practical, step-by-step guide on how to write and publish a medical case report. The case report is the traditional way for physicians to describe their unique or unusual cases to a broad audience and it plays an important role in the discove...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Historical Tradition of Case Reporting
• The Educational Value of Case Reports
• Practical Benefits of Case Reporting
• Is My Case Good Enough?
• How to Get Started
• How to Write a Traditional Case Report
• Special Considerations
• How to Write a Clinical Vignette Abstract
• How to Write a Clinical Problem Solving Manuscript
• Submitting a Case Report Manuscript
• The View from the Journal
• It's Published!
• The Future of Case Reports .