Sullivan 2014.

Methods	Identification of subsequent full‐length publications Searched electronic database PubMed to April 2014 Person completing the search not reported Search criteria not reported Matching criteria not reported
Data	Included 227 abstracts presented at the 2006 to 2010 Irish Society of Urology Annual meetings Included all abstracts
Comparisons	Proportion of abstracts published, overall and by meeting Mean time to publication, overall and by meeting Clinical versus laboratory research
Outcomes	95 of 227 abstracts published 43% of abstracts presented at the 2006 meeting, 32% at the 2007 meeting, 36% at the 2008 meeting, 51% at the 2009 meeting, and 47% at the 2010 meeting Proportion of abstracts published by time Mean time to publication = 24 months, overall Mean time to publication = 26 months for the 2006 meeting Mean time to publication = 33 months for the 2007 meeting Mean time to publication = 22 months for the 2008 meeting Mean time to publication = 20 months for the 2009 meeting Mean time to publication = 18 months for the 2010 meeting Factors related to proportion of abstracts published included 39% of abstracts describing clinical research versus 49% of abstracts describing laboratory research published
Notes	Urology Funding not reported Data extracted from abstract
Risk of bias
Item	Authors' judgement	Description
Sampling method?	Yes	Included all abstracts.
Search for publications?	No	Searched only 1 database.
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 type science with publication using stratified analysis and t tests.