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Shany Eilon
Published on: 26 September 2011

Published on: 26 September 2011
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- Shany Eilon, Physician
Dear Sir, Case reports have their importance in the medical literature as you pointed in your editorial [1]. Many journals opt not to publish them as they are not considered "research", but they tend to forget that in many situations, when clinicians are faced with a rare presentation of a common disease or just a rare disease, they recur to case reports in order to form an opinion and counsel patients. Moreover, textbook...
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Dear Sir, Case reports have their importance in the medical literature as you pointed in your editorial [1]. Many journals opt not to publish them as they are not considered "research", but they tend to forget that in many situations, when clinicians are faced with a rare presentation of a common disease or just a rare disease, they recur to case reports in order to form an opinion and counsel patients. Moreover, textbooks are champions in quoting: "this entity was reported X times in the medical literature." Thus "BMJ case report" entered this field in order to answer the need of case reports publications. Informed consent for case report publication has raised new barriers for publication. For a discussion on the right for privacy and confidentiality versus the importance of publishing important issues and teaching see Levine and Stagno [2]. In your editorial the different pros and cons are discussed, with the eventual decision of withholding the publication... but... eventually, though the case itself was not published, it was practically disclosed in the text... [1] Wacogne I. Publish and be damned? Arch Dis Child. 2011 Sep;96(9):789- 90. [2] Levine SB and Stagno SJ.Informed Consent for Case Reports. The Ethical Dilemma of Right to Privacy Versus Pedagogical Freedom. Psychother Pract Research, 2001, 10: 193-201.
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