Case Reports: Stories Worth Telling in Today`s Bone and Joint Literature

Document Type : EDITORIAL

Authors

1 Orthopedic research Centre, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

2 Orthopedic Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

Abstract

Case reports are considered as the lowest level of evidence while at the same time they are frontiers of evidence collection. case reports are professional stories about novel medical events and will worth publication only if they possess complexity, proper data collection, justified diagnosis, and legitimate intervention as well as appropriate language, punctuation, and syntax. A case report must clearly reflect the author’s reputation and proficiency in both practice and writing....

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