国际临床病例报告撰写要求的最新进展--2016年CARE清单及国际著名医学期刊病例报告投稿要求

Progress in international writing requirements on clinical case report:2016 CARE Checklist and requirements on case report of some international leading medical journals

临床病例报告是一种受到临床医生普遍欢迎的论文体裁。尽管在循证医学的证据分级中,病例报告的证据级别并不高,但对于临床医生而言,却有其特殊的高价值。相较于长篇的科研论文而言,病例报告的写作似乎显得较为简单;但事实上,要写出一篇优秀的病例报告并不容易。针对病例报告的规范写作和发表,部分国际医学小组制定了具有针对性的病例报告写作指南,而由CARE小组制定的CARE指南就是其中之一。此外,许多国际著名的医学期刊,在其稿约中也对病例报告的写作提出了各自的特定要求。为此,本文对CARE指南及其2016 CARE信息清单更新版进行介绍,并对国际上部分著名医学期刊在稿约中对病例报告的写作要求进行小结,旨在为提高国内作者的病例报告写作水平提供帮助。

The clinical case report is a popular type of paper for clinicians. Although the evidence level of the case report is not high in evidence-based medicine, it has special value for clinicians. Compared to a lengthy paper, a case report seems simpler; but in fact, it is not easy to write a high-quality case report. To standardize the writing and publication of case report, some international medical groups have developed specific guidelines for case report writing, and the CARE guidelines developed by the CARE group is one of them. In addition, many international leading medical journals also put forward specific requirements on case report writing in introductions for authors. Therefore, this paper introduces the CARE guidelines and 2016 CARE Checklist, and summarizes the writing requirements on case report of some international leading medical journals, in order to provide assistance to improve the domestic authors＇ skills for writing a case report.