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The case report template.
A CARE-guideline scaffold for clinical case reports: presentation, timeline, intervention, and outcome in the order clinical readers expect, with a de-identification checklist and consent statement built into the structure rather than remembered at the end.
What's included
Everything the format demands, seeded.
CARE-guideline structure
Sections follow the CARE checklist — patient information, clinical findings, timeline, diagnostic assessment, intervention, and outcomes — so the report is complete before an editor asks for the missing piece.
A structured case timeline
A dedicated timeline block orders presentation, tests, interventions, and follow-up into the chronology reviewers look for, exported as a clean figure.
De-identification checklist
A built-in checklist prompts for the identifiers that must be removed and the consent statement that must be present — the two things that get a case report desk-rejected.
Verified references, short list
The literature context — what makes this case notable — cites DOI-resolved sources, so the discussion's claims about rarity or precedent are checkable.
Structure
The sections this template seeds.
Every section is a structured block: rename, reorder, or remove any of them — the template is where the manuscript starts, not where it must end.
- 01AbstractThe case and why it is worth reporting
- 02IntroductionClinical context and what makes the case instructive
- 03Patient informationDe-identified demographics and presenting concerns
- 04Clinical findings & timelineExamination, tests, and a dated case timeline
- 05Diagnostic assessmentReasoning, differential, and challenges
- 06Intervention & outcomesTreatment, follow-up, and results
- 07DiscussionLiterature context, lessons, and limitations
- 08Consent & declarationsPatient-consent statement, funding, AI use
Venues it suits
One draft, formatted for the destination.
The structure follows the CARE guidelines that journals such as BMJ Case Reports and the Journal of Medical Case Reports require, with the consent statement they will not publish without.
- BMJ Case Reports
- Journal of Medical Case Reports
- CARE-compliant journals
- Cureus
Who it’s for
Built for this kind of writing.
- Clinicians writing up an instructive or unusual case
- Trainees publishing a first report under a supervising author
- Teams that need de-identification and consent handled by structure, not memory
Export
Formatted for the destination.
Exports to DOCX and PDF with the case timeline as a figure and the consent statement in place — formatted for the case-report journal you are submitting to.
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Aims, significance, approach, and budget justification — with per-section length budgets for funder limits.
Open the case report template.
Available on every plan, including Free — sign in with ORCID and the structure is waiting.