@article{8ec473e163ae4c3b8a46966fea19bab5,
title = "Distinguishing case study as a research method from case reports as a publication type",
abstract = "The purpose of this editorial is to distinguish between case reports and case studies. In health, case reports are familiar ways of sharing events or efforts of intervening with single patients with previously unreported features. As a qualitative methodology, case study research encompasses a great deal more complexity than a typical case report and often incorporates multiple streams of data combined in creative ways. The depth and richness of case study description helps readers understand the case and whether findings might be applicable beyond that setting.",
author = "Alpi, {Kristine M.} and Evans, {John Jamal}",
note = "Funding Information: The final example is a single author reporting on a personal experience of creating and executing the role of research informationist for a National Institutes of Health (NIH)–funded research team [17]. There is a thoughtful review of the informationist literature and detailed descriptions of the institutional context and the process of gaining access to and participating in the new role. However, the motivating question in the abstract does not seem to be fully addressed through analysis from either the reflective perspective of the author as the research participant or consideration of other streams of data from those involved in the informationist experience. The publication reads more like a case report about this informationist{\textquoteright}s experience than a case study that explores the research informationist experience through the selection of this case. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019, Medical Library Association. All rights reserved.",
year = "2019",
month = jan,
doi = "10.5195/jmla.2019.615",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "107",
pages = "1--5",
journal = "Bulletin of the Medical Library Association",
issn = "1536-5050",
publisher = "Medical Library Association",
number = "1",
}