Gavazza 1996.

Methods	Identification of subsequent full‐length publications Searched electronic database MEDLINE Plus from January 1990 through January 1995 Person completing the search not reported Search criteria not reported Matched abstract to full‐length publication by All authors Title Contents Methodology Results
Data	Included 376 abstracts presented at the 1990 to 1992 American Society in Surgery of the Hand meetings Included all 397 abstracts initially, but deleted 21 abstracts from the study population in which the authors only found partial agreement between the abstract and a subsequent full publication
Comparisons	Proportion of abstracts published Cumulative proportion of abstracts published Clinical research versus basic science research Presentation by residents or fellows versus others
Outcomes	165 of 376 abstracts published Proportion of abstracts published by time Cumulative proportion of abstracts published at 36 months showed proportion published = 52.7% (198/376 abstracts) Factors related to proportion of abstracts published included 105/254 abstracts describing clinical research versus 18/32 abstracts describing basic science research published 42/90 abstracts presented by residents or fellows versus 123/286 abstracts presented by others published
Notes	Surgery ‐ hand Funding not reported
Risk of bias
Item	Authors' judgement	Description
Sampling method?	Yes	Included all abstracts with reasonable exceptions.
Search for publications?	No	Searched only 1 database.
Follow‐up time?	Yes	All meetings before 1992 had at least 48 months follow‐up. The meeting in 1992 only had 36 months follow‐up.
Matching?	Yes	Matched by 5 different criteria.
Adjustment for confounding?	No	Examined association of type science, and author status with publication using stratified and log rank analysis.