O'Neill 2014.

Methods	Identification of subsequent full‐length publications Searched electronic database PubMed; date of search not reported Person completing the search not reported Searched by all authors, keywords, and institution names Matching criteria not reported
Data	Included 203 abstracts presented at the 2002 to 2005 Irish Orthopaedic Association meetings Included all abstracts
Comparisons	Proportion of abstracts published, overall and by meeting Mean time to publication Clinical research versus basic science research Retrospective versus prospective research
Outcomes	66 of 203 abstracts published 13/49 abstracts presented at the 2002 meeting, 17/52 at the 2003 meeting, 20/50 at the 2004 meeting, and 16/52 at the 2005 meeting published Proportion of abstracts published by time Mean time to publication = 30.1 months (range = 4.7 to 76.5 months) Proportion of abstracts published at 60 months = 31.0% (63/203 abstracts) Factors related to proportion of abstracts published included 49/167 abstracts describing clinical research versus 16/36 abstracts describing basic science research published 24/94 abstracts describing retrospective studies versus 24/71 abstracts describing prospective studies published
Notes	Orthopedics/orthopedic surgery 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?	Unclear	Date of search not reported.
Matching?	Unclear	Matching criteria not reported.
Adjustment for confounding?	No	Examined association of meeting year, type science, and prospective status using stratified analysis and unspecified statistical tests.