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A Metadata Extraction Approach for Clinical Case Reports to Enable Advanced Understanding of Biomedical Concepts
Published on: September 20, 2018
The case for case reports
Shamik Bhattacharrya1, Julie Miller, Allan H Ropper
1Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
Abstract:
Case reports have seemingly fallen upon hard times. Once esteemed by William Osler and C. Miller Fisher, these reports are now considered anachronistic. Nonetheless, case reports remain valuable and formed the largest proportion of publications written last year by residents in our training program (the Partners Neurology Residency). Although they are easy to produce, it is reasonable to ask if these modern exercises are of equal significance to the narratives of migraine by John Graham in the 1950s or descriptions of Parkinson disease by James Parkinson in 1817. Even a brief reading of currently published case reports raises doubts about the value of many of them but also emphasizes their utility. We argue here that the case report format remains of considerable merit, especially to the aspiring academic clinician.
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