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Published in: Journal of Medical Case Reports 1/2011

Open Access 01-12-2011 | Editorial

Case report on trial: Do you, Doctor, swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

Authors: Oded Yitschaky, Michael Yitschaky, Yehuda Zadik

Published in: Journal of Medical Case Reports | Issue 1/2011

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Abstract

We are in the era of "evidence based medicine" in which our knowledge is stratified from top to bottom in a hierarchy of evidence. Many in the medical and dental communities highly value randomized clinical trials as the gold standard of care and undervalue clinical reports. The aim of this editorial is to emphasize the benefits of case reports in dental and oral medicine, and encourage those of us who write and read them.
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Metadata
Title
Case report on trial: Do you, Doctor, swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
Authors
Oded Yitschaky
Michael Yitschaky
Yehuda Zadik
Publication date
01-12-2011
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Journal of Medical Case Reports / Issue 1/2011
Electronic ISSN: 1752-1947
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-5-179

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