Open AccessHow about the reporting quality of case reports in nursing field?
Author(s) -
Kelu Yang,
Cuncun Lu,
Yanchun Sun,
Yitong Cai,
Bo Wang,
Yizi Shang
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
world journal of clinical cases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.368
H-Index - 10
ISSN - 2307-8960
DOI - 10.12998/wjcc.v7.i21.3505
Subject(s) - medicine , checklist , quality (philosophy) , odds ratio , nursing , confidence interval , medline , citation , odds , nursing outcomes classification , nursing research , family medicine , logistic regression , psychology , team nursing , pathology , philosophy , epistemology , world wide web , political science , computer science , law , cognitive psychology
As a significantly important part of clinical practice, the professional nursing process can be advanced in many ways. Despite the fact that case reports are regarded to be of a lower quality grade in the hierarchy of evidence, one of the principles of evidence-based medicine is that decision-making should be based on a systematic summary of evidence. However, the evidence on the reporting characteristics of case reports in the nursing field is deficient.