Kwong Yune, Kwong Francois N K, Patel Jignesh
Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Clifton Bridge Road, Coventry CV22DX, United Kingdom.
Injury. 2007 Jul;38(7):745-9. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2006.07.002. Epub 2006 Sep 15.
Oral presentations at major conferences are often used to present new material and generate discussion. However, conference abstracts that ultimately fail to be published are of little use to the wider medical community. The aim of this study was to evaluate the publication rate of trauma papers presented at an international orthopaedic conference, and to assess the factors which predict publication.
All abstracts presented orally at the trauma sessions of the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) Congresses in 1999 (Belgium) and 2001 (Greece) were assessed. A MEDLINE and EMBASE search was performed to identify articles written by the first, second and last authors of each abstract to identify a matching journal article. Subspecialty, country of origin of abstract, study type, journal of publication and publication year were tabulated.
Two hundred and seventy eight trauma abstracts were presented orally, and 112 (40.3%) achieved subsequent publication. Abstracts on fractures of the proximal femur were the most common (18.7%) and had one of the highest rates of publication (44.2%). Greece and the UK provided the largest number of abstracts, and randomised trials were the study type with the highest rate of publication (80.0%). Thirty two percent of journal articles appeared within 1 year of the conference and 63% within 2 years. Injury was the journal most likely to publish the articles.
About 60% of Trauma abstracts presented did not result in a subsequent full-text publication. The citation of conference proceedings should be discouraged, and clinicians should be wary of implementing information gleaned from conference presentations into their clinical practice.
在大型会议上进行口头报告通常用于展示新材料并引发讨论。然而，最终未能发表的会议摘要对更广泛的医学界几乎没有用处。本研究的目的是评估在一次国际骨科会议上发表的创伤论文的发表率，并评估预测发表的因素。
对1999年（比利时）和2001年（希腊）欧洲国家骨科与创伤学会联合会（EFORT）大会创伤分会场的所有口头报告摘要进行评估。通过检索MEDLINE和EMBASE来识别每篇摘要的第一、第二和最后作者撰写的文章，以确定匹配的期刊文章。将亚专业、摘要的原产国、研究类型、发表期刊和发表年份制成表格。
共进行了278篇创伤摘要的口头报告，其中112篇（40.3%）随后得以发表。股骨近端骨折的摘要最为常见（18.7%），且发表率最高（44.2%）。希腊和英国提供的摘要数量最多，随机试验是发表率最高的研究类型（80.0%）。32%的期刊文章在会议后1年内发表，63%在2年内发表。《损伤》是最有可能发表这些文章的期刊。
所展示的创伤摘要中约60%未随后发表全文。应不鼓励引用会议论文集，临床医生在将从会议报告中收集到的信息应用于临床实践时应谨慎。
