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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2008 100(6):744-746; doi:10.1093/bja/aen128
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© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2008. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Volume 100: Case reports: should they be confined to the dustbin?

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A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct;

The language plain, and incidents well linked;

Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows,

And new or old, still hasten to a close.

        Conversation, 1782.

William Cowper, English Poet

Since time immemorial, editorial boards have agonized about publishing case reports in their journals. Will they denigrate the standards of their journal and most importantly, will they have a disadvantageous effect on their impact factor? The agony continues as most of us enjoy reading a tale of horror (especially if we do not experience it first hand). It must be acknowledged that case reports attract readers, often clinicians, who may not, alas, look at other parts of the British Journal of Anaesthesia in the same detail. But most importantly, a case report should only be published if it . . . [Full Text of this Article]

R. P. Mahajan1,* and J. M. Hunter2

1 Nottingham, UK
2 Liverpool, UK

* E-mail: bja@nottingham.ac.uk, mszrpm@gwmail.nottingham.ac.uk


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