Korn 2000.

Methods	Identification of subsequent full‐length publications Searched electronic database MEDLINE from January 1995 to November 1999 Person completing the search not reported Searched by all authors Matched abstract to full‐length publication by Contents
Data	Included 1637 abstracts presented at the 1997 American College of Emergency Physicians Research Forum and 1995 to 1997 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine meetings Included all abstracts
Comparisons	Proportion of abstracts published, overall and by meeting Clinical research versus basic science research versus surveys 'Prospective' versus 'retrospective' design Subspecialty
Outcomes	629 of 1637 abstracts published 186/396 abstracts presented at the 1995 meeting, 210/467 at the 1996 meeting, 181/548 at the 1997 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine meeting, and 52/226 at the 1997 American College of Emergency Physicians Research Forum meeting published Proportion of abstracts published by time not reported Factors related to proportion of abstracts published included 388/1019 abstracts describing clinical research versus 96/212 abstracts describing basic science research versus 80/188 abstracts describing surveys published 263/607 abstracts with 'prospective' study design versus 125/412 abstracts with 'retrospective' study design published
Notes	Emergency medicine Funding not reported Data extracted from abstract
Risk of bias
Item	Authors' judgement	Description
Sampling method?	Yes	Included all abstracts.
Search for publications?	No	Searched only 1 database.
Follow‐up time?	No	Only the meeting in 1995 had 48 months follow‐up. All other meetings had less than 48 months follow‐up.
Matching?	No	Matched by only 1 criterion.
Adjustment for confounding?	No	Examined association of meeting and meeting year, type science, prospective status, and subspecialty with publication using stratified analysis.