BACKGROUND Medical studies are more likely to report favorable findings when a conflict of interest is declared. We aim to quantify and determine the effect of author disclosure of conflict of interest on scientific reporting. METHODS Abstracts from an international spine research meeting (North American Spine Society 2010) were selected that specifically evaluated a device, biologic, or prop...

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In this paper, we will be discussing Abstracts #9061, #9062, #9065, #9072 and #9097 presented at the recent 2012 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. All of these abstracts explore innovative ways to control symptoms in cancer patients. We are hopeful that these methods are able to be used in symptomatic pancreatic cancer patients.

Aesthetic Session 1 Abstracts presented at the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) 2016 annual meeting were not initially published with the following supplement to PRS Global Open: September 2016 Volume 4 PSTM 2016 Abstract Supplement 9S. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons regrets this error. The Aesthetic Session 1 Abstracts were published after the initial publication of the su...

IMPORTANCE Conference abstracts present information that helps clinicians and researchers to decide whether to attend a presentation. They also provide a source of unpublished research that could potentially be included in systematic reviews. We systematically assessed whether conference abstracts of studies that evaluated the accuracy of a diagnostic test were sufficiently informative. OBSER...

BACKGROUND Checklists for peer review aim to guide referees when assessing the quality of papers, but little evidence exists on the extent to which referees agree when evaluating the same paper. The aim of this study was to investigate agreement on dimensions of a checklist between two referees when evaluating abstracts submitted for a primary care conference. METHODS Anonymised abstracts wer...

BACKGROUND Despite significant efforts made for, most abstracts presented during a meeting do not proceed and publish as a manuscript in scientific journals. AIMS To investigate publication rates of national anatomy congresses. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive study. METHODS All abstracts presented at two annual meetings in 2007 and 2008 were extracted. PubMed and Google Scholar database search u...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Selective nonpublication will yield publication bias and a published literature imperfectly representative of the full range of scientific findings. We evaluated the proportion of research abstracts presented at the leading United States research meeting in stroke, the International Stroke Conference (ISC), which were subsequently published as full-length articles and inv...

This publication contains the abstracts of the Eurogin International Expert Meeting, held in Nice, October 21 – 23, 2004. For uniformity, all abstracts have been formatted electronically. Occasionally, symbols may have been lost or changed during the electronic reformatting process. Please advise the meeting's organisers of major errors which distort the data or change their meaning. The abstra...

s (underlined = graduate student; * = postdoctoral scholar) [128] Anderson, R.B., Long, S.P., Horton, B.K., Calle, A., and Stockli, D.F., 2014, New apatite and zircon (UTh)/He constraints on the timing of thrust-related exhumation in the southern Bolivian (21 ̊S) Andes: AGU Fall Meeting. [127] Barber, D., Stockli, D.F., Koshnaw, R.I., Horton, B.K., and Kendall, J.J., 2014, Detrital zircon U-Pb a...