Bab 3 Method

“The best teaching of medicine is that taught by the patient himself”, a quote
said by William Osler, a Canadian physician and founding professor of the Johns
Hopkins Hospital. This article comes in the form of case report, which data is based
on the symptoms the patient exhibited. Case report is one of research designs where
an unforeseen or novel circumstance is thoroughly described in a detailed report of
finding, clinical course, and prognosis of an individual patient, assisted or backed by
review of literature of other reported cases.
According to the hierarchy of evidence-based practice, case reports are
considered as the lowest in medical literature. It provides vital information for
unfamiliar events and shared individual experiences, for improved understanding and
optimizing patient care, which may lead to a hypothesis, but yet to be confirmed
through confirmatory quantitative experimental or observational study designs such as
clinical trials or cohort studies.

Figure 4 The hierarchy

of evidence based medicine.1

Case reports should be short and focused, with a limited number of figures and
references. There are usually a restricted number of authors. The structure of a case
report usually comprises a short unstructured (or no) abstract, brief (or no)
introduction, report of the case, and discussion. Unlike original articles, case reports
do not follow the standard IMRAD structure of the manuscript organization. As there
is a wide variation in the format for case reports among different journals, it is
essential for authors to follow exactly the target journal’s Instructions to Authors.1

Figure 5 Structure of a case report

 REFERENCE

1. Alsaywid B, Abdulhaq N. Guideline on writing a case report. Vol. 11, Urology

Annals. Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications; 2019. p. 126–31.