TY - JOUR T1 - Making a case for case reports in the age of the pandemic JF - BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine JO - BMJ EBM SP - 268 LP - 268 DO - 10.1136/bmjebm-2020-111433 VL - 26 IS - 5 AU - Samuel Smith AU - Shalisa Maisrikrod AU - Ashly Vu Y1 - 2021/10/01 UR - http://ebm.bmj.com/content/26/5/268.abstract N2 - In these uncertain times dealing with the COVID-19, it is important for medical journals to adapt their publication processes to encourage timely information sharing for frontline clinicians.1 One example is the increased publication of relevant case reports, including those which reported some of the earliest cases of COVID-19 in Wuhan.2 However, in recent decades, case reports have fallen out of favour with many medical journals.3 With their resurgence in the face of this new threat, we must reconsider the relevance of this much maligned form of … ER -