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

Post 2013.

Methods Identification of subsequent full‐length publications

  • Searched electronic database

    • PubMed in April 2012

    • Search completed by the investigators

    • Searched by first author

    • Matched abstract to full‐length publication by

      • Title

      • Contents

      • Abstract
Data

  • Included 1329 abstracts presented at the 2007 and 2008 North American Primary Care Research Group and Society of Teachers of Family Medicine meetings

  • Included all abstracts except educational sessions, workshops, and breakfast roundtable sessions
Comparisons

  • Proportion of abstracts published, overall and by meeting

  • Mean time to publication, overall, by meeting and by type of presentation

  • Oral versus poster presentation
Outcomes

  • 457 of 1329 abstracts published

  • 367/1000 abstracts presented at the North American Primary Care Research Group meetings and 90/329 at the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine meetings published

  • Proportion of abstracts published by time

    • Mean time to publication = 15.4 months (SE = 0.6; range = ‐20 to 51 months), overall

    • Mean time to publication = 16 months (SE = 0.6) for the 2007 to 2008 North American Primary Care Research Group meetings

    • Mean time to publication = 13.1 months (SE = 1.2) for the 2007 to 2008 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine meetings

    • Mean time to publication = 13.7 months (SE = 0.6) for abstracts presented orally

    • Mean time to publication = 18.6 months (SE = 1.0) for abstracts presented as poster

  • Factors related to proportion of abstracts published included

    • 295/688 abstracts presented orally versus 162/641 abstracts presented as poster published
Notes

  • General medicine/primary care

  • Funding not reported
Risk of bias
Item Authors' judgement Description
Sampling method? Yes Included all abstracts with reasonable exceptions.
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 3 different criteria.
Adjustment for confounding? No Examined association of meeting and type of presentation with publication using stratified analysis and unspecified statistical tests.