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

Parkar 2013.

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

    • PubMed until September 2011

    • Search completed by investigator

    • Searched by all authors and title

    • Matching criteria not reported

Data
  • Included 137 abstracts presented at the 2008 to 2009 European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology meetings

  • Included all abstracts

Comparisons
  • Proportion of abstracts published, overall and by meeting

  • Median time to publication

  • Cumulative proportion of abstracts published, overall and by meeting

  • North American versus European versus Asian origin

Outcomes
  • 62 of 137 abstracts published

  • 34/73 abstracts presented at the 2008 meeting, and 28/64 at the 2009 meeting published

  • Proportion of abstracts published by time

    • Median time to publication = 14.5 months (range = ‐47 to 30 months)

    • Cumulative proportion of abstracts published at 24 months showed proportion published = 38.7% (53/137 abstracts), overall

    • Cumulative proportion of abstracts published at 24 months showed proportion published = 41.1% (30/73 abstracts) for the 2008 meeting

    • Cumulative proportion of abstracts published at 24 months showed proportion published = 35.9% (23/64 abstracts) for the 2009 meeting

  • Factors related to proportion of abstracts published included

    • 2/3 abstracts originating in North America versus 60/132 abstracts originating in Europe versus 0/2 abstracts originating in Saudi Arabia published

Notes
  • Radiology

  • 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? No All meetings had less than 48 months follow‐up.
Matching? Unclear Matching criteria not reported.
Adjustment for confounding? No Examined association of meeting year and country of origin with publication using stratified analysis and Chi2 test.