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. 2018 Nov 20;2018(11):MR000005. doi: 10.1002/14651858.MR000005.pub4

Durinka 2014.

Methods Identification of subsequent full‐length publications
  • Searched electronic database

    • PubMed 'in 2013'

    • Search completed by investigator

    • Searched by first, second, and last author, and title

    • Matched abstract to full‐length publication by

      • Content

      • Sample Size

Data
  • Included 1938 abstracts accepted to the 2009 American Transplant Congress meeting

  • Included all abstracts

Comparisons
  • Proportion of abstracts published

  • Mean time to publication

  • Oral versus poster presentation

  • Multi‐center versus single center

  • University affiliation

  • Country of first author

Outcomes
  • 244 of 1938 abstracts published

  • Proportion of abstracts published by time

    • Mean time to publication = 16 months (range = 1 to 49 months)

  • Factors related to proportion of abstracts published included

    • 103/641 abstracts presented orally versus 141/1297 abstracts presented as poster published

    • authors reported number of abstracts published by factor, but not the total number of abstracts within each factor

Notes
  • Surgery ‐ organ transplantation

  • Funding not reported

Risk of bias
Item Authors' judgement Description
Sampling method? Unclear Included all abstracts.
Search for publications? Unclear Searched only 1 database.
Follow‐up time? Unclear The meeting had 48 months follow‐up.
Matching? Yes Matched by 2 criteria.
Adjustment for confounding? No Examined association of type presentation, multi‐center status, university affiliation, country of origin, and subspecialty with publication simple stratified analysis. Also examined association of study design by type of presentation, and multi‐center status by type of presentation with publication using stratified analysis and Chi2 tests.