Download Sound Familiar? Now you have BMJ Case Reports!

BMJ Case Reports
publishing, sharing and learning through experience
Why BMJ Case Reports?
 I have an interesting and rare Case to share.
 But where and how do I publish the Case?
 Should I publish the Cases in national journals and conference papers?
Low impact…
 I would like International recognition.
What about International journals?
Low acceptance rate…
Sound Familiar?
Now you have BMJ Case Reports!
How can BMJ Case Report help me?
• Covers all disciplines
• Unlimited number of case submissions
• Simple submission steps
• Over 200 case submissions received by editorial each month
• Currently achieving an 80% acceptance rate
• The only published peer-reviewed case reports database
• Over 6,000 case reports published from over 70 countries
The largest single collection of medical cases in the world!
Types of Cases Covered in Case Reports
•Rare disease
•Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury
•Unusual association of diseases/symptoms
•Unexpected outcome (+ or -) including adverse drug reactions
•Novel treatment/new drug/intervention
•Established drug/procedure in new situation
•Off licence use of drugs
•Novel diagnostic procedure
•Myth exploded
•Learning from errors
•New disease
Disciplines Covered
■ Clinical
■ Non-Clinical
Anaesthesia
Nutrition and metabolism
Ethics
Cardiovascular medicine
Obstetrics and gynaecology
Ethnic studies
Complementary medicine
Oncology
Health economics
Dentistry and oral medicine
Ophthalmology
Health informatics
Dermatology
Orthopaedics
Diagnostics
Paediatrics
Drugs and medicines
Palliative care
Ear, nose and throat/otolaryngology
Pathology
Occupational & environmental
medicine
Emergency medicine
Pharmacology and therapeutics
Public health
Endocrinology
Prison medicine
Gastroenterology
Psychiatry
General practice/family medicine
Radiology
Genetics
Rehabilitation medicine
Geriatric medicine
Renal medicine
Haematology (incl. blood transfusion)
Respiratory medicine
Immunology (incl. allergy)
Rheumatology
Infectious diseases
Sexual health
Intensive care
Sports and exercise medicine
Neurology
Surgery
Nursing
Urology
Medical education
Medical management
Smoking and tobacco
Sociology
Statistics and research
methods
Looking for cases in casereports.bmj.com
Sample
Case Report
Writing your Cases
How to write a good Case Report?
•Know what journal you are publishing in
•Read some of the cases published
•Know what the journal is looking for
•Follow the guide provided by the publisher
•Use simple language and grammar
•Seek help from your senior colleagues
What BMJ Case Reports Editors are looking for?
•Healthcare workers including medical students and junior doctors must find the
cases a valuable learning resource, both relevant and engaging.
•Valuable clinical or ethical lessons
•Common cases presented in an unusual way
•Present diagnostic challenges where there are pitfalls to learn from
BMJ Case Reports – A typical structure
•Summary
•Background
•Case Presentation
•Investigations
•Differential diagnosis
•Treatment
•Outcome and follow-up
•Discussion
•Learning points/ take home messages
Title and Summary
•You do not need to include “a case
report” in the title.
•The summary will be freely available
online.
•Use up to 150 words to summarise the
case presentation and outcome.
•Emphasise the learning points
Background
•Why you think this case is important – why did you write it up?
Why is the case of interest to readers?
Is this a prevalent health problem?
Is there a clear message?
Case Presentation
•Presenting features, medical/social/family history.
•This is the patient’s story – be sensitive to patient confidentiality
•How did they present?
•What is the relevant history? Why is this relevant?
•Explain your findings and how they influenced your decisions
*Do not use abbreviations for diseases or investigations.
Investigations
•If relevant. All investigations that create a background picture are relevant.
•All investigations that are crucial to management decisions should be discussed in full
•Choose appropriate images and videos to illustrate your point (maintaining patient
confidentiality).
Differential Diagnosis
•If relevant. Please don’t list these.
•What we want is to see how the final diagnosis was derived.
•What are the consequences to management or treatment for the differential
diagnosis?
Treatment, Outcome and follow-up
•Include treatment used if relevant.
•Always include follow up data where you can to show the outcome of the treatment
•The follow-up period should be defined. Please state if the patient has died even if
not directly related to your case.
Discussion
•Include very brief review of similar published cases.
•Describe mechanisms of injury, guidelines and their relevance, diagnostic pathways
(can use diagrams) and the points of interest of the case.
•A brief summary of relevant clinical guidelines is appropriate.
Did you make an exception?
Did you have to adapt the guidelines?
Learning Points/ take home message
•3 to 5 bullet points.
•Compulsory/required field
•This is the most crucial part of the case
What do you want readers to remember when seeing their own patients?
Research and Publishing Ethics
•You must have signed informed consent from patients (or relatives/guardians) before
submitting to BMJ Case Reports.
•Please anonymise the patient’s details as much as possible
•Consent forms are available in several languages:
http://group.bmj.com/products/journals/patient -consent-forms
Submitting your Cases
It’s your first time…
•All authors need to register once on the submission system
(ScholarOne Manuscripts).
•Authors that have registered can log in using their ‘User ID’ and
‘Password’.
First time authors need to fill out a form
After you Log-in
•Go to “Author Centre”
Use the Templates
Use the Templates:
- Full Cases
- Images
Note your Fellowship Code!
•You need to enter this code at the end of the submission process of each case
Fellowship Code
XXXXXX
Thank You
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