Case Report/Research Software

[mrmandrake]

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Hey guys,

I was assigned a case report by a radiology attending and I'm wondering how to start. I was basically handed a DVD with a portable DICOM viewer (efilmlite) and told to get started on it. I was also given a differential diagnosis and what he thinks the diagnosis is. He said he thought the case was interesting because the patient had a lot of other co-morbidities. I have some questions:

1) What kind of software (preferably free) is good for writing up a case report or writing up any kind of research in general? I'm guessing the end result will be a PDF file but what software can help me organize my data?

2) I plan to read some case reports that have been published and follow it's format. What online radiology journals are free and good to use for this purpose? I am planning to download several full texts.

3) Once I am done and the attending has approved, do I just submit to as many journals as possible and see what happens?

Thanks!

 

[mrmandrake]

Bump? Can anyone just mention software that they used?

 

[drizzt3117]

Microsoft word...

 

[mrmandrake]

Ok thanks drizzt

 

[deleted103644]

Ok thanks drizzt

Most journals are particular about images so you're not going to be formatting the document yourself, just supplying text, figs, and captions. So just any word processor, and if you're going to be annotating your images try to convert DICOM to a lossless format and annotate in Photoshop or PPT if you're desperate. I'd use Google Docs over MSFT.

 

[mrmandrake]

Thanks. I noticed this after I started to read some free texts online. Saved me a lot of time man.

Most journals are particular about images so you're not going to be formatting the document yourself, just supplying text, figs, and captions.

 

[DrBowtie]

I'd also get some more guidance on which journals accept case reports, which he's been accepted to before etc. since each is specific about style.

 

[richse]

Hey guys,

1) What kind of software (preferably free) is good for writing up a case report or writing up any kind of research in general? I'm guessing the end result will be a PDF file but what software can help me organize my data?

Thanks!

Mendeley is a great free reference manager that can keep track of your citations and interacts with Word for easy citing and automated reference section. It's a great alternative to Endnote if you don't want to pay anything. http://www.mendeley.com/