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The CARE Guidelines: Consensus-based Clinical Case Reporting Guideline Development
| Reporting guideline provided for? (i.e. exactly what the authors state in the paper) |
For completeness, transparency and data analysis in case reports and data from the point of care. CARE checklist (PDF) - 2016 Update |
| Full bibliographic reference | Gagnier JJ, Kienle G, Altman DG, Moher D, Sox H, Riley D; the CARE Group. The CARE Guidelines: Consensus-based Clinical Case Reporting Guideline Development. This guideline was published simultaneously in 7 journals. You can read the guideline in any of these journals using the links below. BMJ Case Rep. 2013; doi: 10.1136/bcr-2013-201554 PMID: 24155002 Global Adv Health Med. 2013;10.7453/gahmj.2013.008 Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2013;110(37):603-608. PMID: 24078847 Full-text in English / Full-text in German J Clin Epidemiol. 2014;67(1):46-51. PMID: 24035173 J Med Case Rep. 2013;7(1):223. PMID: 24228906 Full-text. J Diet Suppl. 2013;10(4):381-390. PMID: 24237192 Headache. 2013;53(10):1541-1547. PMID: 24266334 |
| Language | English |
| Relevant URLs (full-text if available) |
The 2016 updated CARE Checklist is available to download in English as a PDF file. The CARE Writing Template for Authors is also available to download as a PDF file. |
| Availability in additional languages | The CARE Checklist is also available in the following languages: Chinese (2013) PDF French (2013) PDF German (2013) PDF Japanese (2013) PDF Korean (2013) PDF Portuguese (2013) PDF Spanish (2013) PDF The CARE Writing Template for Authors is also available in the following languages: Chinese PDF / Word French PDF / Word German PDF / Word Japanese PDF Korean PDF / Word Portuguese PDF / Word Spanish PDF / Word The CARE guideline paper has been translated into Italian: CARE Italian PDF Visit our translations page to find out what other reporting guidelines are available in languages other than English: reporting guideline translations |
| Reporting guideline website URL | http://www.care-statement.org/ |
| Reporting guideline acronym | CARE |
| Study design | Observational studies |
| Applies to the whole report or to individual sections of the report? | Whole report |
| Additional information | The CARE steering group have developed a flow diagram for how a clinician should consider approaching collecting data when seeing a patient or doing a chart review so that it can be systematically collected and written with the CARE guidelines. The flow diagram is available to download: CARE flow diagram |
| Record last updated on | February 16, 2017 |