CARE-writer was developed by the team that developed the CARE guidelines and Scientific Writing in Health and Medicine (SWIHM – online training in case report writing) to assist authors in writing case reports following CARE.

David Riley, MD, co-led the development of the CARE guidelines from 2011–2013, the online training offered by Scientific Writing in Health and Medicine, and CARE-writer. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and has participated in the development of health research reporting guidelines since 1999. The CARE guidelines are now a widely accepted standard for writing case reports, endorsed by scientific journals, and have been translated into more than 10 languages. They are a framework for writing evidence-based case reports that can be adapted by both clinicians and specialties and used to develop formal clinical research.