เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	รายงานผู้ป่วย	บทความวิจัยต้นฉบับ
สาขาวิชา	การเขียนเชิงวิชาการ	การเขียนเชิงวิชาการ
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1800	1665
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Clinical medicine (long tradition)	Scientific research community
ประเภท	Document Type	Document Type
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Gagnier, J. J., Kienle, G., Altman, D. G., Moher, D., Lakatos, P., & Conboy, T. A. (2013). The CARE guidelines: consensus-based clinical case report guideline development. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 67(1), 46–51.	International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (2023). Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals. ICMJE.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	case series, case study, clinical case, patient report	research paper, empirical article, primary research, journal article
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	2	5
สรุป	A case report is a detailed clinical account of one patient's diagnosis, treatment, and outcome, typically used to describe novel, unusual, or educational cases not previously reported. Unlike controlled studies with comparison groups, case reports are observational, non-comparative, and generate hypotheses rather than test them. Occupying the lowest rung of evidence hierarchy, case reports are nonetheless valuable for early signal detection, documenting rare diseases, and communicating clinical wisdom. The CARE guidelines (2013) provide reporting standards to ensure completeness and transparency.	An original research article is the primary vehicle for reporting new empirical findings in a discipline. Following the IMRaD structure (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion), it represents a researcher's novel data, analysis, and interpretation. The journal article format has been the gold standard for scientific communication since the establishment of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1665.