Journal of Clinical Case Reports

Schencking M

Publications

• Case Report
  Role and Evidence of Case Reports and Case Series in Primary Care: A Discussion Paper
  Author(s): Schencking M, Sonnichsen A, Redaelli M and Vollmar HCSchencking M, Sonnichsen A, Redaelli M and Vollmar HC
  
  Clinical guidelines, defined as ‘systematically developed statements to assist both practitioner and patient decisions in specific circumstances, have become an increasingly familiar part of clinical care. A central challenge in Primary Care is the question of how do we act in the field of atypical courses of diseases or clinical symptoms beside the spectrum of EBM and how could this gap be measured in scientific literature. Main purpose of this paper is a brief analysis of the actual role and evidence of clinical case reports and case series in primary care as a basis for a scientific discussion. According to the scientific-accepted Oxford levels of evidence case reports and case series belong to the level 4 of evidence. At present a significant majority of published case reports deal with descriptions of physician’s care following their .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7920.1000756

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