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A Metadata Extraction Approach for Clinical Case Reports to Enable Advanced Understanding of Biomedical Concepts
Published on: September 20, 2018
How to write a case report? or...not write at all?
A Erdem Bağatur1, Merter Yalçınkaya
1Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Medicana International Istanbul Hospital, 34520 Beylikdüzü, İstanbul, Turkey. erdembagatur@gmail.com.
Abstract:
Case report is the oldest and the best-known type of publication in medicine. Many original observations, recognition of new diseases, novel diagnostic and therapeutic methods, unusual forms of common diseases, and complications were first published as case reports. Case reports have become a standard and indispensable part of the medical literature. However, getting a case report published in a respectable journal was never more troublesome. In this essay, pearls and pitfalls as well as the importance of writing a case report for a journal have been further discussed.
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