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report

[re-port´]

a prepared account of an event, investigation, or evaluation, usually for formal presentation to an authority or group.

case report a narrative in the professional literature that identifies a single incident and discusses pertinent factors related to the patient.

incident report a written document describing inadvertent trauma to a patient, errors or omissions in care, or untoward events happening to staff or visitors. Such a report should be filed as soon after the event as possible. Called also accident report.

shift report in the nursing interventions classification, a nursing intervention defined as exchanging essential patient care information with other nursing staff at change of shift.

A report of a single case of a disease, usually with an unexpected presentation, which typically describes the findings, clinical course, and prognosis of the case, often accompanied by a review of other cases previously reported in the biomedical literature to put the reported case in context.

case report

A formal summary of a unique patient and his or her illness, including the presenting signs and symptoms, diagnostic studies, treatment course, and outcome.

Synonym: case study

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Case reports often provide a first exploration of a phenomenon or an opportunity for a first publication by a trainee in the health professions.

Distinguishing case study as a research method from case reports as a publication type

Traumatic neuroma of the mandible: A case report with spontaneous remission.

SPINDLE CELL TUMOR OF NEURAL ORIGIN MANIFESTING IN ORAL CAVITY: A CASE REPORT WITH REVIEW

The history of the case report: a selective review.JRSM Open.

Case reports and their importance in Medical Literature

Palmar aneurysm accompanied by ipsilateral clubbing finger--a case report. Angiology 1999;50(1) :69-73.

Palmar artery aneurysm

Based on clinical case reports, it requires prolonged antibiotic treatment along with surgical drainage procedure to cure this infection.

Actinomyces meyeri Popliteal Cyst Infection and Review of the Literature

Searching for and Selecting Case Reports. To assess the quality of reporting in acupuncture treatment case reports in Korea, all such reports were searched for in the Korean academic journal, The Acupuncture (The Journal of Korean Acupuncture and Moxibustion Medicine Society).

The Current Status of Quality of Reporting in Acupuncture Treatment Case Reports: An Analysis of the Core Journal in Korea

In the history of medicine, case reports and case series have been an integral part of the biomedical literature.

Importancia de los reportes de caso en anestesiologia

All the case reports presented in this issue of CME are local, and selected for their particular usefulness to our younger and less experienced colleagues.

CME: Case reports

Unilateral simultaneous renal oncocytoma and angiomyolipoimr Case report Cases J 2009-2-9093 http://dx.doi.org/101186/1757-1626-2-9093

Papillary renal cell carcinoma within a renal oncocytoma: case report of very rare coexistence

Vaginal metastasis from renal cell carcinoma--a case report. Indian J Urol 2004;20: 169-170.

Metastatic renal cell carcinoma in endometrial cavity: a rare case report

A statement like the following is often included in the report: "Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report and accompanying images.

Writing a case report

The first case report described an alleged negative outcome of colon hydrotherapy (colonic irrigation), which may or may not have been directly attributable to the procedure.