Schoenfeld 2012.

Methods	Identification of subsequent full‐length publications Searched electronic database PubMed and Google/Google Scholar in spring of 2010 Search completed by investigator Searched by all authors, keywords, and lead author Matching criteria not reported
Data	Included 770 abstracts presented at the 1998 to 2006 Society of Military Orthopaedic Surgeons meetings Included all abstracts
Comparisons	Proportion of abstracts published, overall and by meeting Mean time to publication, overall and by meeting Cumulative proportion of abstracts published Subspecialty (secondary publication by Fuller 2011)
Outcomes	352 of 770 abstracts published 41/96 abstracts presented at the 1998 meeting, 36/89 at the 1999 meeting, 52/104 at the 2000 meeting, 35/75 at the 2001 meeting, 42/84 at the 2002 meeting, 43/83 at the 2003 meeting, 38/86 at the 2004 meeting, 33/76 at the 2005 meeting, and 32/78 at the 2006 meeting published Proportion of abstracts published by time Mean time to publication = 32.4 months, overall Mean time to publication = 43.0 months for the 1998 meeting Mean time to publication = 33.0 months for the 1999 meeting Mean time to publication = 33.6 months for the 2000 meeting Mean time to publication = 30.6 months for the 2001 meeting Mean time to publication = 39.6 months for the 2002 meeting Mean time to publication = 29.4 months for the 2003 meeting Mean time to publication = 27.0 months for the 2004 meeting Mean time to publication = 28.5 months for the 2005 meeting Mean time to publication = 19.2 months for the 2006 meeting Cumulative proportion of abstracts published at 120 months showed proportion published = 47.5% (366/770 abstracts) No factors other than subspecialty related to proportion of abstracts published reported
Notes	Orthopedics/orthopedic surgery Funding not reported
Risk of bias
Item	Authors' judgement	Description
Sampling method?	Yes	Included all abstracts.
Search for publications?	Yes	Searched 2 databases.
Follow‐up time?	Yes	All meetings had at least 48 months follow‐up.
Matching?	Unclear	Matching criteria not reported.
Adjustment for confounding?	No	Examined association of meeting year and subspecialty with publication using stratified analysis.