Fenton John E, Khoo S Guan, Ahmed Ishteaque, Ullah Ishan, Shaikh Muktar
Department of Ear Nose Throat, Head and Neck Surgery, Mid Western Regional Hospital and the National Institute of Health Sciences, Limerick, Ireland.
Auris Nasus Larynx. 2004 Sep;31(3):205-7; discussion 207. doi: 10.1016/j.anl.2004.05.005.
Resuscitative measures are required to ensure the survival of the case report in medical writing. The aim of this study was to assess a series of case reports for quality improvement.
All articles pertaining to a single patient published in Auris Nasus Larynx and The Journal of Laryngology and Otology from January to December 2000 inclusive were examined. Data recorded included authorship numbers and origin of the report, pertinence of the accompanying abstract, length of the article, claims of a first and the number of references included in the bibliography.
Twelve different countries produced 129 papers in the two journals. Author numbers ranged from 2 to 7 (mean 4.56) in Auris Nasus Larynx, and were 1 to 11 (mean 2.63) in The Journal of Laryngology and Otology. Overall, there were 45 articles of two pages or less. An appropriate summary existed in 79.6% of articles published in Auris Nasus Larynx and in 33.9% of abstracts located in The Journal of Laryngology and Otology. A unique occurrence was reported in 14 and 27.82%, respectively. The number of citations ranged from 3 to 28 (mean 12.4) in Auris Nasus Larynx and 2 to 28 (mean 10.2) in The Journal of Laryngology and Otology.
Case reports require a more applicable summary with a limit on authors, pages and references.
在医学写作中，复苏措施对于确保病例报告的留存很有必要。本研究旨在评估一系列病例报告以改进质量。
对2000年1月至12月（含）期间发表于《耳鼻咽喉》和《喉科学与耳科学杂志》上的所有涉及单一患者的文章进行审查。记录的数据包括作者人数和报告来源、随附摘要的相关性、文章长度、首次声明以及参考文献目录中包含的参考文献数量。
12个不同国家在这两种期刊上发表了129篇论文。《耳鼻咽喉》的作者人数从2人到7人不等（平均4.56人），《喉科学与耳科学杂志》的作者人数为1人到11人不等（平均2.63人）。总体而言，有45篇文章为两页或两页以下。《耳鼻咽喉》上发表的文章中有79.6%存在适当的摘要，《喉科学与耳科学杂志》中的摘要中有33.9%存在适当摘要。分别有14篇和27.82%的文章报告了独特的病例。《耳鼻咽喉》的引用次数从3次到28次不等（平均12.4次），《喉科学与耳科学杂志》的引用次数为2次到28次不等（平均10.2次）。
病例报告需要更适用的摘要，并对作者、页数和参考文献加以限制。
