Case reports and case series

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HBS108 (Week 6 & 7) Mind Map on Case reports and case series, created by shirley.ha on 26/08/2013.
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Case reports and case series
  1. Case reports
    1. descriptive account of a case of a condition of interest (often about a single patient or subject)
      1. details of all the relevant circumstances in the form of a 'story'.
        1. compiled on the basis of detailed clinical observations that are usually taken from the hospital records of a patient(s)
          1. when an unusual case is identified and its significance realised by a treating doctor or a researcher
          2. useful for describing aspects of a condition, a treatment, or an adverse reaction to a treatment
          3. Case series
            1. when a number of case reports are collected together into a short series. No control groups are involved.
              1. systematic collection of data on a number of cases with a similar disease or condition of interest.
                1. Results from case studies cannot provide any information on possible reasons for the findings but are often the source of later hypotheses, which are then tested by more robust study designs
                2. A new, rare or unique disease or condition
                  1. lead to further research focussing on the cause of the adverse events.
                    1. main weakness is the absence of a control group of non-cases, in which frequencies of exposure to hypothesised risk factors can be explored.
                  2. evidence-based perspective very important
                    1. written up and published within days of an event and they are often readily understandable by non-academic clinicians and lay people
                      1. That's why health products use them esp when there's little or no evidence to back up claims
                        1. 1.How could two teenagers catch malaria from local mosquitoes near Washington DC?
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