The CARE guidelines: consensus-based clinical case reporting guideline development.

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BACKGROUND: A case report is a narrative that describes, for medical, scientific, or educational purposes, a medical problem experienced by one or more patients. Case reports written without guidance from reporting standards are insufficiently rigorous to guide clinical practice or to inform clinical study design. OBJECTIVE: Develop, disseminate, and implement systematic reporting guidelines for case reports. METHODS: We used a three-phase consensus process consisting of (1) pre-meeting liter...

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Authors: Gagnier, J; Kienle, G; Altman, D; Moher, D; Sox, H

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Headache
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 1541-1547
• Publication date: 2013-01-01
• DOI: 10.1111/head.12246
• EISSN: 1526-4610
• ISSN: 0017-8748
• Language: English
• Keywords: CARE Group; Humans; Periodicals as Topic; Guidelines as Topic; Consensus