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The Importance of Case Report Writing in Evidence-Based Practice
Dr. Nancy Agnes, Head,
Technical Operations, Pubrica
In-Brief
Medical case study report writing should
encompass the following five sections: an
abstract, an introduction with a literature
review, a description of the case report, a
discussion that includes a detailed
explanation of the literature review, and
a summary of the case and a conclusion.
All biomedical research offers some sort of
data that can be used to guide patient care.
The gathered data or research evidence's
strength and quality are mainly based on
the clinical research design type.
Keywords: clinical cases in medicine,
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medical case report, clinical case report
Writing Services, clinical observation case
report, medical case report writing service,
Case report writing services.
I. INTRODUCTION
Randomized clinical trials act as a
cornerstone in advancing medical literature.
They are labour intensive, expensive, and
need significant resource utilization. In
addition to that, they are often challenging to
execute. Deals with unusual diseases, which
are caused due to a lack of significant study,
i.e. group sizes. The major benefit in the
publication of case reports is its essential
role in medical education. Regardless of
experience, whether they are a first-year
medical student or an expert physician, case
reports have a significant role in advancing
clinical knowledge. It acts as a versatile
teaching tool.
II. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CASE
REPORT
Medical case study report writing is a
research design that describes unexpected or
novel clinical course occurrence, report of
findings and prognosis of an individual
patient, which might be or but not
compulsory, accompanied by a review of the
literature of other reported cases. Though
they are considered the bottommost in the
hierarchy of evidence-based practice in the
medical literature, it offers necessary data
for shared individual experiences and
unfamiliar events to improve understanding
and optimise patient care. This method
might produce an idea or hypothesis. It will
not be confirmed unless conducting
additional observational study designs or
confirmatory quantitative experimental such
as clinical trials or cohort studies. Apart
from that, a case report offers the medical
community evidence that any other designs
cannot pick up. The clinical observation
case report might be in the tail of the
hierarchy of evidence-based medicine. Still,
if properly selected and appropriately
reported, it might stand a better chance of
publication in high impact journals than
even a clinical trial.
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III. CLINICAL STUDY DESIGN AND
THE VALUE OF CASE REPORTS AND
STUDIES IN EVIDENCE-BASED
PRACTICE
All biomedical research offers some sort of
data that can be used to guide patient care.
The gathered data or research evidence's
strength and quality are mainly based on the
research design type. Clinical research
design comprises the following 3 types of
studies such as,
Case reports and studies,
Observational clinical research, and
Experimental clinical research
In that observational research, the
methodology comprises the case-control
study, the cohort study, and the cross-
sectional study.
Experimental clinical research design
includes a Randomized Controlled Trial
(RCT), which is also called a double-blind,
randomized controlled trial when carried out
in a double-blind manner. Case reports can
be informative at times, but it has some
restrictions due to the low strength of
evidence that they provide. The low strength
of evidence which is offered by case reports
and readings got from multiple intrinsic
characteristics of such studies contains
Absence of appropriate controls;
Restricted sample size (one to a few
individuals); and
Lack of blinding. All these
fundamental characteristics bring
about important bias and random
errors.
Because of the above restrictions, analysis
of the results of case reports studies and
examination of their consequences must be
done with great caution. In contrast, in the
hierarchy of evidence offered by the above
three groups of clinical research design, the
double-blind, randomized, placebo-
controlled trial produce the strongest
evidence for the efficiency and safety of a
therapeutic modality or preventive. The
strength of evidence is further improved by
systematic review and meta-analysis of
multiple randomized controlled trials. Case
report writing services provides a clear view
of clinical research and clinical studies.
IV. MEDICAL EDUCATION
The major benefit in the publication of case
reports is its essential role in medical
education. Regardless of experience,
whether they are a first-year medical student
or an expert physician, case reports have a
significant role in advancing clinical
knowledge. It acts as a versatile teaching
tool. It helps in stating two interrelated
perspectives, both for patient and physician.
It helps present a coherent story, reflecting
the patient’s experience of illness and the
physician’s diagnostic or therapeutic
reasoning. A huge portion of knowing
clinical medicine mainly depends on
understanding a given sickness and its
complexity of presentations. During their
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medical education, students have flooded
with problem-based learning, clinical
vignettes, etc. While these tools are
significant in building and testing the basics
of medical sciences, unusual cases, or novel
treatments presented in case reports allow an
additional expansive clinical knowledge
base. At times clinicians and students were
trained to evaluate numerous diseases based
on a pattern of signs or symptoms. The
evaluation of case reports in clinical
literature permits clinicians and students to
be aware of new or mixed presentation
patterns. At the same time, teaching points
explained in a case report often have
noticeable longevity. Unless there is a huge
change in the protocol caused due to
diagnostic methods or recent therapeutics,
the teaching points from a case report
usually has no expiration date. Hence, many
physicians and professors use previous cases
for teaching purposes.
Finally, it is a standard in which medical
students, experienced clinicians and recent
graduates may record observations and
thoughts in reaching a diagnosis or explain
the rationale behind an innovative treatment.
V. NEW SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY &
ROLE IN PATIENT CARE
As described above, one of the best features
of the case report is it has the facility to
report novel findings and better-quality
therapeutic strategies. With quick, brief
writing and publication rates, case studies
are an essential tool for rapidly expanding
the growing body of clinical knowledge. An
example of this can be found while
researching rare diseases or disorders.
Running controlled trials with consistent
testing procedures on rare disorders is very
hard, as there are often insufficient patients
to attain statistical power. Case studies
present a venue to record opinions and
possible therapeutic interventions that can
be published.
A broad spectrum of data may be accessible
in case reports such as unexpected
complications, rare diseases from novel
diagnostic or therapeutic techniques,
standard therapy, and consequences from
new technology, to name a few. These
illustrations simultaneously upgrade clinical
knowledge and create a platform for further
questioning through controlled clinical
trials. Thus, case studies also have a
significant role in creating new research and
hypotheses. The culmination of numerous
case reports allows for comparison and
generation of hypotheses for further testing.
It is significant to understand the impact
case reports have had on patient care. For
example, case reports regarding penicillin
and toxic shock syndrome have had
enhanced patient care and direct clinical
impact after publication.
VI. CONCLUSION
When assessing the significance of the case
reports, it is essential to remember numerous
things. First, it serves an essential role in the
field of education. For example, the various
presentations of a given disease explained in
a case report function in enhancing
clinicians' knowledge at all levels.
Irrespective of the publication date,
conclusions drawn from these studies can
generally be reestablished or reassessed,
showing no true conclusion for these
articles. Additionally, case reports provide a
significant foundation for further research
through comparison and reporting novel
clinical phenomena. These comparisons
have allowed for thought-provoking
questions that have directly impacted
medical protocols. Writing a medical case
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REFERENCES
1. Li, Y. R., Jia, Z., & Zhu, H. (2013). Understanding the
value of case reports and studies in the context of
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2. Ortega-Loubon, C., Culquichicón, C., & Correa, R.
(2017). The importance of writing and publishing case
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