A group or series of case reports involving patients who were given similar treatment. Reports of case series usually contain detailed information about the individual patients. This includes demograp [..]

Reports of several patients with a given condition, usually covering the course of the condition and the response to treatment. There is no comparison (control) group of patients.

A report of a study of a collection of patients treated in a similar manner, without a control group. For example, a clinician might describe the characteristics of an outcome for 25 consecutive patients with diabetes who received education for prevention of foot ulcers.

An uncontrolled description of events and outcomes for a sequence of individual cases (i.e., patients, clients, or students)

A descriptive, observational study of the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and/or outcome of a subject group with the same (or similar aspects) of a condition.

A case series is a descriptive study of a group of people, who usually receive the same treatment or who have the same disease. This type of study can describe characteristics or outcomes in a particular group of people, but cannot determine how they compare with people who are treated differently or who do not have the condition.

A report about a small group of similar patients with a disease or outcome of interest.

A report on a series of patients with an outcome of interest. No control group is involved.

A group or series of case reports involving patients who were given similar treatment. Reports of case series usually contain detailed information about the individual patients. This includes demographic information (for example, age, gender, ethnic origin) and information on diagnosis, treatment, response to treatment, and follow-up after treatmen [..]

A report about a small group of similar cases.

are usually based on a very small group of patients, participants, or clients who have similar signs, symptoms, diagnoses, histologies, experiences or behaviours. Case series identify unusual features of a disease or of individuals and may lead for example to the formulation of new aetiological hypotheses, the identification of a new disease identi [..]