Background: Reliable and accurate medical literature is essential for patients with rare
diseases (affecting~ 400 million people globally), their advocates, and caregivers (PACs) …

The clinicopathological conferences and case reports that are published in the medical
literature contain rare and complex medical cases that are of general interest to the medical …

Background Rare diseases affect as many as 60 million people in the United States and
Europe. However, most rare diseases lack effective therapies and are in critical need of …

Background Rare diseases (defined as affecting< 1 in 2000 Europeans) may collectively
affect up to approximately 8% of the population. The low prevalence of individual diseases …

Objective The researchers assessed prevalence in the clinical case report literature of
multiple reports independently reporting the same (or nearly the same) main finding …

Objective: As patient authorship increases, publication professionals may face increasing
responsibilities in identifying, guiding, and measuring the output of patient authors. Meta …

Background Clinical papers so flawed that they are eventually retracted may put patients at
risk. Patient risk could arise in a retracted primary study or in any secondary study that draws …

“Join us in making the voice of rare diseases heard” is the slogan of Rare Disease Day
2016, a special day established by EURORDIS (http://www. rarediseaseday. org/). It takes …

Objective. The aim of this study was to (a) determine the rate of redundant publication in the
pediatrics literature and (b) to characterize these articles. Methods. Index articles in JAMA …

Case reports are defined as the scientific documentation of a single clinical observation and
have a time-honored and rich tradition in medicine and scientific publication. Case reports …