Case Reporting in Homeopathy—An Overview of Guidelines and Scientific Tools
Open Access
- 14 September 2021
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Georg Thieme Verlag KG in Homeopathy
- Vol. 111 (01), 002-009
- https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1731313
Abstract
Case reports have been of central importance to the development of homeopathy over the past 200 years. With a special focus on homeopathy, we give an overview on guidelines and tools that may help to improve the quality of case reports. Reporting guidelines such as CARE (Case Report), HOM-CASE (Homeopathic Clinical Case Reports), and the WissHom Documentation Standard help to improve the quality of reporting and strengthen the scientific value of a case report. Additional scientific tools such as prospective outcome assessment, prognostic factor research, cognition-based medicine, and the Modified Naranjo Criteria for Homeopathy (MONARCH) score may be helpful in improving case documentation and evaluation. † Dr. Gerhard Bleul died on June 3rd, 2020. Received: 29 January 2021 Accepted: 12 April 2021 Article published online: 14 September 2021 © 2021. Faculty of Homeopathy. This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivative-NonCommercial License, permitting copying and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit. Contents may not be used for commercial purposes, or adapted, remixed, transformed or built upon. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Georg Thieme Verlag KG Rüdigerstraße 14, 70469 Stuttgart, GermanyKeywords
Funding Information
- Homöopathie Stiftung des Deutschen Zentralvereins homöopathischer Ärzte and Robert Bosch Stiftung
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