Clinic cases: tip of the iceberg of a public health problem
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https://doi.org/10.18041/2665-427X/ijeph.1.8738Keywords:
clinical case, case report, public healthAbstract
Traditionally, clinical cases contain a broad description of the symptoms, signs, diagnoses, and treatment of a novel event in a well-known or unknown disease, i.e., rare clinical events (1). This information is obtained from a single patient or a small group of patients. This usually leads to important, unknown, or uncommon observations of a health event. Ultimately, they can allow for a better approach to these diseases that present the same symptoms and signs (rare or uncommon) or for educational purposes (1). For this reason, a clinical case has several uses, so it must be structured and written appropriately.Downloads
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