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 Case reports can often help you to find something out of the ordinary and give you individual examples of how someone else has responded to an event. This may be something unusual or new and innovative. They are often narratives relating to a specific occurrence.

These resources help you to find case reports:

BMJ Case Reports for unusual clinical cases

UHNM and Keele University both have a subscription to the BMJ Case Reports journal. Staff and students can search the journal to access full-text case reports. The subscription includes the option to submit your own report, giving you the opportunity to be published. If you come across a rare and unusual clinical case consider sharing your experience and submitting your own report.

See our website for more help using BMJ Case Reports.

Fab NHS Stuff for practical applications and innovative practice

Fab NHS Stuff is a repository of ideas and innovations of healthcare practice. Practicing healthcare professionals can submit their projects and practice, so sharing ideas and innovation. Next time you are looking to change your practice, check out if anyone has done the same by searching on fab NHS Stuff for a case report on a similar topic.

Search Tools and the Case Report filter

You can find case reports via database searches using the case report filter, usually within the “publications type” filter.

Databases

Some databases such as medline, embase, psychinfo etc will allow you to select the case reports filter. Enter your search terms and then apply your filter to your search results. This example is a medline search on Ovid.

Example of a search on medline on ovid; showing the Case Reports option selected

BMJ Best Practice

BMJ Best Practice also includes an option to search for case reports. Select the option from the main menu and then either browse through the cases by topic or specialty or enter your search terms.

The Case Reports option in BMJ Best Practice

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For access to our resources please see:

NHS staff will need their NHS OpenAthens username to access full-text; Keele students will need their Keele login details.

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