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

Mutlu 2015.

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

    • PubMed and Google/Google Scholar to March 2013

    • Person completing the search not reported

    • Searched by first and second author, and title

    • Matched abstract to full‐length publication by

      • Title

      • Results

      • Protocol

Data
  • Included 214 abstracts presented at the 2005 to 2008 National Congress of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry meetings

  • Included all abstracts accepted for poster presentation

Comparisons
  • Proportion of abstracts published, overall and by meeting

  • Mean time to publication, overall and by meeting

  • Cumulative proportion of abstracts published

  • Research type versus case type

Outcomes
  • 54 of 214 abstracts published

  • 13/51 abstracts presented at the 2005 meeting, 19/64 at the 2006 meeting, 12/59 at the 2007 meeting, and 10/40 at the 2008 meeting published

  • Proportion of abstracts published by time

    • Mean time to publication = 30.7 months (SD = 18.9; range = 4 to 74 months), overall

    • Mean time to publication = 35.3 months (SD = 22.6) for 2005 National Congress of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry meeting

    • Mean time to publication = 24.4 months (SD = 16.1) for 2006 National Congress of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry meeting

    • Mean time to publication = 33.8 months (SD = 18.9) for 2007 National Congress of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry meeting

    • Mean time to publication = 33.0 months (SD = 18.2) for 2008 National Congress of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry meeting

    • Cumulative proportion of abstracts published at 60 months showed proportion published = 23.8% (51/214 abstracts)

  • Factors related to proportion of abstracts published included

    • 40/141 abstracts with research type versus 14/73 abstracts with case type published

Notes
  • Psychiatry ‐ childhood and adolescents

  • Reported receiving no funding

Risk of bias
Item Authors' judgement Description
Sampling method? Yes Included all abstracts accepted for poster presentation.
Search for publications? Yes Searched 2 databases.
Follow‐up time? Yes All meetings had at least 5 years follow‐up.
Matching? Yes Matched by 3 different criteria.
Adjustment for confounding? No Examined association of meeting year and study design with publication using stratified analysis and Chi2 or Mann‐Whitney U tests.