Riordan F A
Department of Child Health, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Bordeseley Green East, Birmingham B9 5SS, UK.
Arch Dis Child. 2000 Dec;83(6):524-6. doi: 10.1136/adc.83.6.524.
Research presented to a scientific meeting is inaccessible to clinicians, unless it is also published in a cited journal.
To assess the publication rate of studies presented to two UK national paediatric meetings: the Paediatric Research Society (PRS) and the British Paediatric Association (BPA).
A Medline search in December 1999 for the first authors of all plenary abstracts presented in 1996. If not found, authors contacted by postal questionnaire.
Information was obtained on 88/89 presentations. Twenty five of 48 PRS and 31 of 40 BPA studies were published in Medline listed journals. The major reason for non-publication was that they had not been submitted (PRS 15/48, BPA 6/40). Some authors were still hoping to do so (PRS 7, BPA 2). Other reasons were: publication in other forms (theses, book chapters, non-Medline journals) (PRS 5, BPA 2), or still being reviewed (PRS 3, BPA 1). Ten of 11 randomised, controlled trials were published, but only 20 of 37 observational studies were submitted and published.
Presenters to paediatric meetings need help in submitting and publishing their work.
除非在被引用的期刊上发表，否则临床医生无法获取在科学会议上展示的研究成果。
评估在两个英国全国性儿科学术会议——儿科学研究学会（PRS）和英国儿科学会（BPA）上展示的研究的发表率。
1999年12月在Medline中检索1996年所有全会摘要的第一作者。若未找到，则通过邮寄问卷联系作者。
获取了88/89份展示报告的信息。48份PRS研究中的25份和40份BPA研究中的31份在Medline收录的期刊上发表。未发表的主要原因是未提交（PRS为15/48，BPA为6/40）。一些作者仍希望发表（PRS为7份，BPA为2份）。其他原因包括：以其他形式发表（论文、书籍章节、非Medline期刊）（PRS为5份，BPA为2份），或仍在评审中（PRS为3份，BPA为1份）。11项随机对照试验中有10项发表，但37项观察性研究中只有20项提交并发表。
在儿科学术会议上展示研究成果的人员在提交和发表其作品方面需要帮助。
