Jackson 2000.

Methods	Identification of subsequent full‐length publications Searched electronic database Melvyl MEDLINE Plus from January 1988 through October 1998 Person completing the search not reported Searched by all authors and keywords Matched abstract to full‐length publication by All authors Sample size Title Methodology Results
Data	Included 777 abstracts submitted to the 1991 to 1994 Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America meetings Included all abstracts
Comparisons	Proportion of abstracts published, overall and by meeting Median time to publication (for accepted and rejected abstracts) Cumulative proportion of abstracts published by meeting Accepted versus rejected for conference presentation Subspecialty
Outcomes	348 of 777 abstracts published 91/184 abstracts presented at the 1991 meeting, 94/196 at the 1992 meeting, 87/192 at the 1993 meeting, and 76/195 at the 1994 meeting published Proportion of abstracts published by time Median time to publication = 29 months for accepted papers Median time to publication = 27 months for rejected papers Cumulative proportion of abstracts published at 84 months showed proportion published = 55.2% (48/87 abstracts) for 1991 Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America meeting Cumulative proportion of abstracts published at 72 months showed proportion published = 54.5% (48/88 abstracts) for 1992 Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America meeting Cumulative proportion of abstracts published at 64 months showed proportion published = 47.6% (39/82 abstracts) for 1993 Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America meeting Cumulative proportion of abstracts published at 56 months showed proportion published = 46.7% (43/92 abstracts) for 1994 Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America meeting Factors related to proportion of abstracts published included 184/349 abstracts accepted for presentation versus 164/428 rejected abstracts published
Notes	Orthopedics/orthopedic surgery ‐ pediatrics Funding not reported
Risk of bias
Item	Authors' judgement	Description
Sampling method?	Yes	Included all abstracts.
Search for publications?	No	Searched only 1 database.
Follow‐up time?	Yes	All meetings had at least 48 months follow‐up.
Matching?	Yes	Matched by 5 different criteria.
Adjustment for confounding?	No	Examined association of meeting year, acceptance for presentation, and subspecialty with publication using stratified analysis and Chi2 tests.