FOCUS AND SCOPE

Journal of Case Reports and Clinical Insights in Health is different from other case report journals. Our aim is to directly improve global health and increase clinical understanding using case reports to convey important best practice information.

The journal welcomes contributions from diverse health disciplines (including but not limited to medicine, nursing, geriatrics, midwifery, public health, mental health, rehabilitation, traditional and complementary medicine, and allied health), particularly those featuring innovative interventions, unexpected outcomes, diagnostic challenges, or culturally grounded care in real-world settings.

Our case reports do not have to be novel, unusual, or challenging—nor do they have to be surprising. They simply have to convey an important teaching point about a common or important clinical scenario. Scenarios involving the appropriate use of a clinical guideline or systematic review are particularly important to us. Clinical Case Reports is an open access journal with a comprehensive peer review policy, and a very rapid publication process. We guarantee that Clinical Case Reports will publish all high quality original case reports meeting our submission guidelines which have an important, practical, and generalisable teaching message.

Novel, unusual, and challenging cases are important and form a key part of Case Reports. However, most healthcare professionals spend most of their time treating common problems, and those common clinical problems present excellent opportunities to illustrate and disseminate best practice. Consequently, compared with teaching points from rare or unusual situations, our common best practice messages have the potential to optimise the care of many more patients globally – and that is why we are excited about them.

Procedural case reports are also an excellent vehicle with which to highlight aspects of important clinical procedures. Our view again is that these procedures do not have to be novel or unusual, but do need to reflect best practice.