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Cases Database – a Database of Case Reports

Cases Database – a Database of Case Reports

2 - Do you know
Cases Database Available at www.casedatabase.com, Cases Database, is database of thousands of medical case reports from multiple publishers, including Springer, BMJ and PubMed Central. Freely accessible and  continuously-updated, this is an initiative of  the Open Access Publisher - Biomed Central.  (As of 6 Aug 2013 - 27784 peer-reviewed medical case reports from 250 journals) The About US section of the Cases Database mentions "Documenting a patient's case history to inform physicians how the patient has been evaluated and the subsequent progression of his or her disease is arguably the oldest method of communicating medical evidence. And in the 21st century case reports play an equally important…
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Tata Memorial Hospital. Event – 7th Clinical Research Workshop. Aug 3, 2013

Tata Memorial Hospital. Event – 7th Clinical Research Workshop. Aug 3, 2013

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On Saturday Aug 3, I was invited to deliver a lecture on Literature Searching at the Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. This was at the 7th Annual Short Course in Clinical Research Methodology conducted on the 3rd and 4th of August. This is the first time I could be there early enough to attend from the inaugural talk onwards There were a little over 140 participants and we were told that the registration is increasing annually. This seems like a great sign - many people getting interested in learning about research methods. The program began sharp on time at 9 AM…
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Can you get me this article please?

Can you get me this article please?

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This is one of the most regular pleas from students, academicians and doctors who do any kind of writing or even reading articles. They search PubMed, find a set of references and then "get stuck" for the full text.  I mention this in the Indian context, though I suspect this is true for any developing nation that does not have  HINARI privileges. A couple of weeks back I got a request for two articles from a young doctor who was working on a research project with a team. I checked the NUCSSI Union Catalog and told him that the articles he needed…
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