Publications

This page provides useful publications related to CARE, case reports, and health research reporting guidelines, along with links to the Equator Network and other health research reporting guidelines.

1. CARE Guideline Publications

• Gagnier JJ, Kienle G, Altman DG, Moher D, Sox H, Riley D, CARE Group. The CARE guidelines: consensus-based clinical case report guideline development. J Clin Epidemiol. 2014;67:46-51. doi:10.1136/bcr-2013-201554.

  • Other journals that simultaneously published this article:

    • BMJ Case Reports

    • Deutsches Ärzteblatt

    • Global Advances in Health and Medicine

    • Headache

    • Journal of Dietary Supplements

    • Journal of Medical Case Reports

• Riley DS, Barber MS, Kienle GS, Aronson JK, von Schoen-Angerer T, Tubwell P, Kiene H, Helfand M, Altman DG, Sox H, Werthmann PG, Moher D, Rison RA, Shamseer L, Koch CA, Sun GH, Hanaway P, Sudak NL, Kaszkin-Bettag M, Carpenter JE, Gagnier JJ. CARE guidelines for case reports: explanation and elaboration document. J Clin Epidemiol. 2017;89:218-235. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.04.026.

2. Articles related to case reports

• Akers KG. New journals for publishing medical case reports. J Med Libr Assoc. 2016;104(2):146-149. doi:10.3163/1536-5050.104.2.010.

• Aronson JK. Anecdotes as evidence. BMJ. 2003;326(7403):1346. doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1346.

• Cooper ID. How to write an original research paper (and get it published). J Med Libr Assoc. 2015;103(2):67-68. doi:10.3163/1536-5050.103.2.001.

• Green BN, Johnson CD. How to write a case report for publication. J Chiropr Med. 2006;5(2):72-82. doi:10.1016/S0899-3467(07)60137-2.

• Hauben M, Aronson JK. Gold standards in pharmacovigilance: the use of definitive anecdotal reports of adverse drug reactions as pure gold and high-grade ore. Drug Saf. 2007;30(8):645-655.

• Irby DM. Three exemplary models of case-based teaching. Acad Med. 1994;69(12):947-953.

• Jenicek M. Clinical Case Reporting in Evidence Based Medicine. 2nd Edition. CRC Press; 2001.

• Kaszkin-Bettag M, Hildebrandt W. Case reports on cancer therapies: the urgent need to improve the reporting quality. Glob Adv Heal Med. 2012;1(2):8-10. doi:10.7453/gahmj.2012.1.2.002.

• Kiene H, Hamre HJ, Kienle GS. In support of clinical case reports: a system of causality assessment. Glob Adv Heal Med. 2013;2(2):64-75.doi:10.7453/gahmj.2012.061.

• Riley D. Case reports in the era of clinical trials. Glob Adv Heal Med. 2013;2(2):10-11. doi:10.7453/gahmj.2013-012.

• Riley D, Gagnier J. “Nothing about me without me”: new perspectives on case reports. Glob Adv Heal Med. 2012;1(5):14-15.

• Rison RA. A guide to writing case reports for the Journal of Medical Case Reports and BioMed Central Research Notes. J Med Case Rep. 2013;7(239).

• Sun GH, Aliu O, Hayward RA. Open-access electronic case report journals: the rationale for case report guidelines. J Clin Epidemiol. 2013;66(10):1065-1070. doi:10.1016/j.micinf.2011.07.011.Innate.

• Vandenbroucke JP. Case reports in an evidence-based world. J R Soc Med. 1999;92(4):159-163. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06792.x.

• Vandenbroucke JP. In defense of case reports and case series. Ann Intern Med. 2001;134(4):330-334. doi:10.1097/AOG.0b013e3181b0c0b8.Reporting Guidelines and related articles

3. Health Research Reporting Guideline Publications

• Altman DG, Schulz KF, Moher D, et al. The revised CONSORT statement for reporting randomized trials: explanation and elaboration. Ann Intern Med. 2001;134(8):663-694.

• Califf RM, Robb MA, Bindman AB, et al. Transforming evidence generation to support health and health care decisions. N Engl J Med. 2016;375(24):2395-2400. doi:10.1056/NEJMsb1610128.

• Cella D, Stone AA. Health-related quality of life measurement in oncology: advances and opportunities. Am Psychol. 2015;70(2):175-185. doi:10.1037/a0037821.

• von Elm E, Altman DG, Egger M, et al. Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies. BMJ. 2007;335(7624):806-808. doi:10.1136/bmj.39335.541782.AD.

• Galipeau J, Barbour V, Baskin P, et al. A scoping review of competencies for scientific editors of biomedical journals. BMC Med. 2016;14(16):1-17. doi:10.1186/s12916-016-0561-2.

• Hoffmann TC, Glasziou PP, Boutron I, et al. Better reporting of interventions: template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide. BMJ. 2014;348:1-12. doi:10.1136/bmj.g1687.

• Committee on Standards for Developing Trustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines, Institute of Medicine. Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust. Washington, D.C.; 2011.

• Ioannidis JPA. Why most clinical research is not useful. PLOS Med. 2016;13(6):e1002049. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002049.

• Moher D, Schulz KF, Simera I, Altman DG. Guidance for developers of health research reporting guidelines. PLoS Med. 2010;7(2):1-9. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000217.

• Sackett DL, Rosenberg WM, Muir Gray J, Haynes R, Richardson W. Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn’t. BMJ. 1996;312:71-72. doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1543.

• Shamseer L, Sampson M, Bukutu C, et al. CONSORT extension for reporting N-of-1 trials (CENT) 2015: explanation and elaboration. J Clin Epidemiol. 2015;76:18-46. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.05.018.

• Turner L, Shamseer L, Altman DG, Schulz KF, Moher D. Does use of the CONSORT Statement impact the completeness of reporting of randomised controlled trials published in medical journals? A Cochrane review. Syst Rev. 2012;1(60). doi:10.1186/2046-4053-1-60.

• Wacholder S, Chanock S, Garcia-Closas M, El ghormli L, Rothman N. Assessing the probability that a positive report is false: an approach for molecular epidemiology studies. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2004;96(6):434-442. doi:10.1093/jnci/djh075

EQUATOR Network and other reporting guideline websites

• EQUATOR Network

• CONSORT

• STROBE

• CARE