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Retrospective Case Report — Retrospective Clinical Case Report

A retrospective case report is a detailed, structured narrative of a single patient's clinical presentation, diagnosis, management, and outcome, assembled from existing medical records after the clinical events have occurred. It is the most granular and accessible observational design in clinical medicine, serving primarily to document rare presentations, unexpected outcomes, novel treatments, or unusual drug reactions that would not otherwise enter the published literature.

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Sources

  1. Gagnier, J. J., Kienle, G., Altman, D. G., Moher, D., Sox, H., & Riley, D. (2013). The CARE guidelines: consensus-based clinical case reporting guideline development. Journal of Medical Case Reports, 7(1), 223. DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-7-223
  2. Vandenbroucke, J. P. (2001). In defense of case reports and case series. Annals of Internal Medicine, 134(4), 330-334. DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-134-4-200102200-00017

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ScholarGateRetrospective Case Report (Retrospective Clinical Case Report). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/epidemiology/retrospective-case-report