A Kidney Transplant Patient With Mild Covid-19  Case Report Writing Guidelines - Pubrica
                     A  K I D N E Y  T R A N S P L A N T  PAT I E N T  
 W I T H  M I L D  COV I D‐1 9 :
C A S E  R E P O R T  W R I T I N G  G U I D E L I N E S  
F O R   P U B L I C AT I O N  A N D  T H E  
I M P O R TA N C E  O F   G D P R
An Academic presentation by
Dr. Nancy Agens, Head, Technical Operations, 
Pubrica  Group: www.pubrica.com
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Today's Discussion
Outline In Brief
Reporting a Case
Kidney Transplant Patient with Mild COVID-
19  CARE Guidelines
Patient Consent
General Data Protection Regulation 
(GDPR)  Conclusion
In Brief
Case study report writing is an important component of 
scientific   emdical writing. Legal obligations for writing a 
case report are  strict to safeguard identity, privacy, and 
interests of the data  subject. GDPR formulated by hey the 
European Union Is an  important step towards ensuring the 
same.
Reportin
g  a Case
Case reporting is an integral part of knowledge dissemination 
 in medical science.
A single case is often reported to highlight circumstances 
 during management of not so common diseases.
Writing a case report is a quick way to report unique cases, 
 sharing information about the difficulty in diagnosis, etc.
Kidney  
Transplant  COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge in both the  
Patient with  developed as well as developing countries with respect to  
prediction of the outcome in different patients, prognostic 
Mild COVID-19  factors, and management protocols.
Mortality rate of 1-6% Has been reported from different parts 
 of the world.
COVID-19 presents in an a typical manner in
immunocompromised and immunosuppressed patients.
Aprilia et al have reported clinical features and treatment  
approach for a patient with k idney transplant and COVID-
19.
CARE These are guidelines recommended by experts around the 
 world for c ase study writing to improve the accuracy,
Guidelines transparency, and quality of reporting so it is beneficial to 
 all stakeholders.
Case report writing services utilise the checklist provided  
by CARE guidelines on h ow to write a medical case report
.
These guidelines have been endorsed time and again and 
 translated in over 10 languages, hence, b est case report
writing services use them extensively.
The detail checklist is available on their website for h el
p in  c ase study writing.
Patient  
Consen
Reporting a case has its own challenges, the most important 
t  being protecting the identity and privacy of the patient.
Medical case study report writing need this prior to publishing
diagnostic reports and images of the patient.
Consent should be written format always and should be 
 executed by an authorized person.
Information transmitted to the consenting person should be 
 transparent, complete, in a dialect that the patient can follow, 
 in a simple manner, and impartial.
General  The GDPR is the harshest privacy and security law in the 
Data   world with heavy penalty.
Protection GDPR outlines various articles related to lawfulness of  
 processing, conditions for consent, and principles related to 
 processing personal data.
Regulatio
n  (GDPR) Processing of data for research purposes is covered in article 
 9 while article 10 provides guidelines for processing data  
related to criminal proceedings and offenses.
Open data includes publication of research findings on the  
internet, primary data in the public domain, and availability 
 of data to other researchers through various channels.
Conclusion
To conclude, a proper consent for publication of case 
 study is to be ensured and adequately documented  
from the patients, guardian, legal representatives, or  
other relevant authorities.
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