Cases Journal was an open access, peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 medical journal

Medical journal

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 publishing any case report

Case report

In medicine, a case report is a detailed report of the symptoms, signs, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of an individual patient. Case reports may contain a demographic profile of the patient, but usually describe an unusual or novel occurrence....

s from any area of healthcare that were understandable, ethical, authentic, and included all information essential to its interpretation. The journal had no publication criteria based on the interest level of the case. The editor in chief

Editor in chief

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 of Cases Journal was Richard Smith

Richard Smith (editor)

Richard Smith is a British medical doctor, editor, and businessman.He is director of the Ovations initiative to combat chronic disease in the developing world...

. Articles that were published in Cases Journal are indexed in PubMed

PubMed

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 and archived in PubMed Central

PubMed Central

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