The impact of case reports in oral and maxillofacial surgery
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Materials and methods
All CRs published in major English language OMS journals (Table 1) from January 2007 to December 2008 were searched manually by the first author. The period was selected to assess the current situation while also giving enough time for any citing article to be published. The CRs were identified by screening the title and abstract of all published articles in 2007 and 2008 within each journal. The full text of articles was retrieved when data from the title/abstract were insufficient to make a
The effect of CRs on journal IF
During the period of study (January 2007–December 2008), BJOMS published the highest percentage of CRs of their total number of published articles while JCMS published the lowest percentage (Table 3). Regarding the total number of CRs published, JOMS published the highest absolute number of CRs followed by BJOMS, IJOMS and JCMS (Table 3). When the number of citations received by CRs was examined, a direct relationship was noted between the number of CRs published within a particular journal and
Discussion
EBM is defined as the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.8 EBM hierarchy places SRs, meta-analyses and RCTs at the highest level of evidence while CRs are at the opposing end of the hierarchy.9, 10 Although considered low level evidence, CRs may well be the ‘best available evidence’ in clinical practice. Pitak-Arnnop et al. recently wrote an excellent review on the application of EBM in the OMS field in
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