From: Instructions to authors for case reporting are limited: A review of a core journal list
 | All journals n = 163 | Medicine n = 81 | Surgery n = 38 | Generic n = 44 | p value |
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Advice on style of reporting | |||||
*Limit on words | 1000 (750,1000) | 1000 (750,1500) | 750 (500, 1000) | 1000 (925,1000) | 0.70 |
*Limits on pages | 4 (2,5) | 3 (2,6) | 4 (2.75, 6) | 1 (1,1) | 0.0001 |
*Limit on figures | 1 (1,1) | 1 (1,2) | 2 (1,2) | 1 (1,1) | 0.30 |
*Limit on tables | 1 (1,1) | 1 (1,1) | 1 (1,2) | 1 (1,1) | 0.45 |
*Limit on references | 8 (5,10) | 8 (6,10) | 5 (4,8) | 9 (5,10) | 0.74 |
*Limit on Authors | 6 (4,6) | 5 (3,6) | 5.5 (3.5, 6) | 6 (5.25,9) | 0.31 |
Abstract/Synopsis | 149 (91%) | 72 (89%) | 37 (97%) | 40 (91%) | 0.30 |
Indexing/Key word | 145 (89%) | 70 (86%) | 36 (94%) | 39 (89%) | 0.40 |
Consent required | 29 (18%) | 14 (17%) | 5 (13%) | 10 (23%) | 0.52 |
Advice on content of case report | |||||
Instructive | 91(55%) | 50 (62%) | 16 (42%) | 25 (57%) | 0.90 |
Originality | 42 (26%) | 19 (23%) | 8 (22%) | 15 (34%) | 0.07 |
Innovative | 42 (26%) | 15 (19%) | 10 (26%) | 17 (39%) | 0.25 |
Unusual/Rare | 99 (61%) | 53 (65%) | 18 (47%) | 28 (64%) | 0.63 |
Hypothesis generation | 9 (6%) | 4 (6%) | 2 (5%) | 3 (7%) | 0.55 |