Hello, Anita. Perhaps checklists/critical appraisal criteria for case
reports/series are rare or non-existent because everyone wants to
encourage readers to seek higher levels of evidence? I don't know, and
unfortunately, it's too busy here for me to search for one. However,
BMJ started a series of Evidence-Based Case Reports in 1998, and perhaps
they mention criteria or checklist items. Here's a few of those
citations:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&d
etails_term=9882112%5Bpmid%5D%20OR%209882111%5Bpmid%5D%20OR%209812949%5B
pmid%5D%20OR%209603741%5Bpmid%5D
I came across this article citation yesterday, which might be of
interest. I'm waiting to get a copy from Interlibrary Loan as our
library doesn't have this issue. The authors have created a framework
for Evidence-Based Toxicology.
Guzelian PS, Victoroff MS, Halmes NC, James RC, Guzelian CP.
Evidence-based toxicology: a comprehensive framework for causation.
Human & Experimental Toxicology. 2005 Apr;24(4):161-201. Review. PMID:
15957536
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&d
etails_term=15957536%5BUID%5D
Here's another one of interest:
Buckley NA. Poisoning and epidemiology: 'toxicoepidemiology'. Clin Exp
Pharmacol Physiol. 1998 Mar-Apr;25(3-4):195-203. Review. PMID: 9590568
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&d
etails_term=9590568%5BUID%5D
Canned PubMed search with the MeSH terms (not keywords): Toxicology AND
Evidence-Based Medicine:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&d
etails_term=%22Toxicology%22%5BMeSH%5D%20AND%20%22Evidence-Based%20Medic
ine%22%5BMeSH%5D
Take care,
Tanya
Tanya Feddern, MLIS, AHIP, MOT, OTR/L
http://www.geocities.com/nqiya/EBMbib.html
http://www.geocities.com/nqiya/index.html
Evidence-Based Medicine Assistant Professor; Reference & Education
Services Librarian
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Louis Calder
Memorial Library
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Subject: Checklists for case reports or case series?
Dear list-members
I work at the Norwegian Poisons Information Center where we respond to
telephone calls from the public and health personnel regarding
poisonings,
and I am a new member of this discussion list.
We are presently revising the routines for quality grading of the
documentation on which we base our advice to the public and health
personnel. Our dilemma is that most of the available literature on
toxicology in human beings are case reports, summaries of case reports
or
case series. The checklists I have been able to locate don't cover these
types of articles.
We have attempted to make a checklist for case reports/case series, but
would like to hear if such a thing already exists. I wonder if any
member
of this list know if such a checklist exists, or of work to make one, or
have opinions regarding it.
I look forward to reading your response!
Kind regards
Anita von Krogh
National Poisons Information Center
Directorate for Health and Social Affairs
Norway.
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