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

Yalcinkaya 2013.

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, keywords, and title

    • Matched abstract to full‐length publication by

      • All authors

      • Title

      • Contents

Data
  • Included 770 abstracts presented at the 2007 Turkish National Orthopedics and Traumatology Congress meeting

  • Included all abstracts

Comparisons
  • Proportion of abstracts published

  • Mean time to publication

  • Cumulative proportion of abstracts published

  • Oral versus poster presentation

Outcomes
  • 227 of 770 abstracts published

  • Proportion of abstracts published by time

    • Mean time to publication = 14.9 months (SD = 16.1, range = ‐33 to 55 months)

    • Cumulative proportion of abstracts published at 36 months showed proportion published = 26.1% (201/770 abstracts)

  • Factors related to proportion of abstracts published included

    • 116/264 abstracts presented orally versus 111/506 abstracts presented as poster published

Notes
  • Emergency medicine ‐ orthopedics and traumatology

  • 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? Unclear Date of search not reported.
Matching? Yes Matched by 3 different criteria.
Adjustment for confounding? No Examined association of type presentation with publication using stratified analysis and t test.