Registered Reports: A new publishing initiative at Cortex

Registered reports: a new publishing initiative at Cortex.

New journals for publishing medical case reports.

Because they do not rank highly in the hierarchy of evidence and are not frequently cited, case reports describing the clinical circumstances of single patients are seldom published by medical journals. However, many clinicians argue that case reports have significant educational value, advance medical knowledge, and complement evidence-based medicine. Over the last several years, a vast number...

Editorial: Introducing Registered Reports

The way we do science is rather stereotyped. We have hypotheses to test, and we plan the experiments, sometimes a long time ahead, to test these hypotheses. Writing a grant proposal is a typical example: we give a detailed plan of what we are going to do in the coming years. Of course, we never know how a project will evolve, and deviations from the original plan are commonplace, as milestones ...

Complaints Related to Laparoscopic Surgery: a Survey of the Files Registered at Tehran Legal Medicine Center

Background and Objectives: Medical error/malpractice is becoming a global healthcare problem bringing ever increasing number of physicians before the courts, and posing significant costs to the health system. Statistical analysis of the nature of complaints can help identifying the most vulnerable medical practices and thereby guide development of preventive strategies. This study surveyed comp...

New Avenues for Academic Publishing: Lessons learnt from Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports

Journal of Orthopaedic Case reports was started in 2011 and is in its fourth year of publication. The journal was started due to certain issues that we were facing at that time with regards to publication of case reports. Most Journals had stopped accepting case reports (as they affect the impact factor negatively) and other accepted it in very limited numbers [1]. There was no other avenue at ...