The Health Sciences Library has a subscription to BMJ Case Reports, which includes a waiver of the individual membership fee of about $370/year normally required to publish cases in it. This journal is peer reviewed, indexed in MEDLINE, and has a 39% acceptance rate. Published cases are available to subscribers immediately upon publication and are free to the world after 2 years, giving your work greater visibility.
Important: A patient consent form must be completed as part of the submission process.
You can submit any of these types of cases:
- Reminder of important clinical lesson
- Findings that shed new light on the possible pathogenesis of a disease or an adverse effect
- Learning from errors
- Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury
- Myth exploded
- Rare disease
- New disease
- Novel diagnostic procedure
- Novel treatment (new drug/intervention; established drug/procedure in new situation)
- Unusual association of diseases/symptoms
- Unexpected outcome (positive or negative) including adverse drug reactions
- Global Health
- Images
See the author instructions for details and templates.
Interested in publishing a case report? We can provide you with a code to waive the membership fee due to our library subscription. Contact asklibrary@health.missouri.edu so we can help you get started.
