AbstractObjectivesA case report is a detailed report of the symptoms, signs, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of an individual patient. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the quality of case reports from the Journal of Korean Medicine by the CARE (CAse REport) Guideline.
MethodsCase reports published in the Journal of Korean Medicine from January 2016 to March 2020 were searched from Oriental Medicine Advanced Searching Integrated System (OASIS). We assessed the quality of reporting based on CARE (CAse REport) guideline as ‘Sufficient’, ‘Not-Sufficient’ and ‘Not-Report’.
ResultsA total of 22 case reports were finally included for the assessment. The reporting items were reported as of reporting quality.
After checking the result, there was a deviation in the sub-item reporting rate by a maximum 89.29%, a minimum 66.67% and a median 82.14% in case reports.
Also after checking the quality in case reports by 28 detailed items in CARE guidelines, there were not reported 77% or more in the 5 sub-items ‘Intervention adherence and tolerability’, ‘Informed consent’, ‘Adverse and unanticipated events’, ‘Diagnostic challenges’, ‘Patient perspective’.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThis study was supported by the 2016 Gachon University research fund (GCU-2016-0494).
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