CARE recommendations for describing cases of real clinical practice

CARE recommendations for describing cases of real clinical practice

O.S. Elsukova^1,2 

¹Kirov State Medical University, Kirov

²Kirov Clinical Hospital No. 7, Kirov 

Accessible and understandable descriptions of clinical cases help to obtain new data about diseases, as well as about the possible benefits and adverse events of medicinal products, and provide information for clinical and scientific work. Such descriptions are supplemented by clinical recommendations which are actively integrated into medical education. The probability of preparing a qualitative description of a clinical case and its value for medicine increases if the authors follow certain rules for writing such articles. In 2011-2012, a group of clinicians, scientists and journal editors developed recommendations for the accurate presentation of information when describing cases, which resulted in the provision and checklist of CARE (CAse Report), presented in 2013 at the International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Biomedical Publications, supported by numerous medical journals and translated into 9 languages. The purpose of this article is to introduce and spread the use of the CARE checklist in the preparation and publication of case reports by clinicians. Explanations are given to each item of the CARE checklist, as well as the attached examples from clinical practice. Explanations and an example of a case description from clinical practice on the use of the insulin glargine biosimilar in type 2 diabetes mellitus in this publication together with the provisions and the CARE checklist from 2013, presented on the official website (www.care-statement.org) and the EQUATOR Group website (www.equator-network.org), can help clinicians improve completeness and transparency of case descriptions from real clinical practice.

Keywords: clinical case, case description, CARE checklist, type 2 diabetes mellitus, biosimilar, morbid obesity.

For citation: Elsukova O.S. CARE recommendations for describing cases of real clinical practice. RMJ. 2023;2:16–24.