Impact of the SCARE guideline on the reporting of surgical case reports: A before and after study

Agha, Riaz; Farwana, Reem; Borrelli, Mimi R.; Tickunas, Tomas; Kusu-Orkar, Ter-Er; Millip, M.C.; Thavayogan, Rachel; Garner, J Dianne; Orgill, Dennis P.

doi:10.1016/j.ijsu.2017.07.099

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“…Other previous articles have studied the completeness of case reports in surgery and dermatology, 13,14 which shows that not only the awareness about the guidelines, but also the analysis of their use and consequent completeness of the articles, are topics that need more diffusion and communication. Overall, completeness of reporting (COR) (according to CARE guidelines) was considered acceptable but presenting a wide variability among studies.…”

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Completeness of reporting of case reports in high‐impact medical journals

Calvache

Vera-Montoya

Ordoñez

et al. 2020

Eur J Clin Investigation

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Introduction Case reports represent a relevant, timely and important study design in advancing medical scientific knowledge. They allow integration between clinical practice and clinical epidemiology. We aimed to assess the completeness of reporting (COR) of case reports published in high‐impact journals. We assessed the COR of case reports using the CARE guidelines. Materials and methods We selected three high‐impact journals and one journal specialized in publishing case reports, in which we included all published case reports from July to December 2017. Median COR score was calculated per study, and CORs were compared between journals with and without endorsement of CARE guidelines. Results One hundred and fourteen case reports were included. Overall median COR was 81%, IQR [63%‐96%]. Sections with the highest COR (84%‐100%) were patient information, clinical findings, therapeutic intervention, follow‐up and outcomes, discussion and informed consent. Sections with the lowest COR were title, keywords, timeline and patient perspective (2%‐34%). COR was higher in journals endorsing in comparison to those not endorsing CARE guidelines (77% vs 65%), respectively, median difference = −12% 95% CI [−16% to −7%]. Discussion Overall completeness of case reports in included journals is high especially for CARE endorsing and dedicated journals but reporting of some items could be improved. Ongoing and future evaluations of endorsement status of reporting guidelines in medical journals should be assessed to improve completeness and reduce waste of clinical research, including case reports.

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Completeness of reporting of case reports in high‐impact medical journals

Calvache

Vera-Montoya

Ordoñez

et al. 2020

Eur J Clin Investigation

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“…Adherence to SCARE reporting guidelines by authors, reviewers and editors should be improved to boost reporting quality. Journals should develop their policies, submission processes and guide authors to incorporate the guidelines (34).…”

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Guidelines to authors publishing a case report: the need for quality improvement

Bradley

2018

AME Case Rep.

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“…CARE guidelines have the potential to be a framework of clinical case reports for education purpose, but one has to be aware of broad variety of both general as well as specific objectives given in individual clinical disciplines that cannot result in a single case report framework applicable to all clinical cases and domains. As the evidence, various protocols and architectures of clinical case reports were published across different clinical disciplines [8,9] or in biomedical applications [10,11,12]. This suggest the idea that the case reports significantly support clinical reasoning while forming an interface between medical knowledge and medical practice [13].…”

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Building a Clinical Case Reports Database to Facilitate Case-Based Learning and Improve Critical Thinking of Medical Students

Majerník

Jarčuška²,

Gonsorčík

2019

Communication Papers of the 2019 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems

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This paper reports on development of our unified case reports database for medical students. The primary aim was to share professionals' clinical knowledge and skills through one of the most traditional medical experiences sharing form based on modern and anywhere available web services and technologies. Doing so, the clinical case reports that still play an invaluable role in case-based learning and in building of ability of students to think critically, can be used not only to learn and practice theoretical and practical consequences of clinicians' decisions, but also to prepare students for bedside teaching. To develop a generally acceptable system, we had to specify both the structure of education suitable materials and the platform for simple creation and sharing of such electronic outputs. As the result, the database of first clinical case reports was implemented into the information technologies infrastructure at Faculty of medicine in Kosice, Slovakia. It is offered to medical students in the form of web-based portal.

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Impact of the SCARE guideline on the reporting of surgical case reports: A before and after study

Cited by 28 publications

References 7 publications

Completeness of reporting of case reports in high‐impact medical journals

Completeness of reporting of case reports in high‐impact medical journals

Guidelines to authors publishing a case report: the need for quality improvement

Building a Clinical Case Reports Database to Facilitate Case-Based Learning and Improve Critical Thinking of Medical Students

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