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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 and title Matched abstract to full‐length publication by Objective Data
Data	Included 867 abstracts presented at the 2004 to 2012 Society of Gynecologic Surgeons Annual Scientific meetings Included all abstracts except tips and tricks and video presentations
Comparisons	Proportion of abstracts published, overall and % by meeting Mean time to publication Oral versus oral poster versus poster presentation University versus community setting Author location
Outcomes	483 of 867 abstracts published 95/165 presented at the 2004 meeting, 42/89 at the 2005 meeting, 56/99 at the 2006 meeting, 53/85 at the 2007 meeting, 51/81 at the 2008 meeting, 50/83 at the 2009 meeting, 35/76 at the 2010 meeting, 46/91 at the 2011 meeting, and 54/97 at the 2012 meeting published Proportion of abstracts published by time Mean time to publication = 12.7 months (SD=11.7; range = ‐5 to 82 months) Factors related to proportion of abstracts published included 169/205 abstracts presented orally versus 190/459 abstracts presented as poster versus 124/203 abstracts presented as oral poster published 465/804 abstracts with academic affiliation versus 16/61 abstracts without an academic affiliation published 462/826 abstracts with US first author versus 20/40 with author from elsewhere published
Notes	Gynecology/obstetrics ‐ gynecologic surgery 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?	Unclear	Date of search not reported.
Matching?	Yes	Matched by 2 different criteria.
Adjustment for confounding?	No	Examined association of meeting year by type presentation, university affiliation, and author location with publication using stratified analysis and Chi2 or ANOVA tests.