Al-Hourani Khalid, Al-Aref Rami, Ley-Greaves Robert, Ballout Fatima, Mesfin Addisu
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Upper Maudlin Street, BS2 8HW Bristol, UK.
Stamford Hospital Columbia University, CT 06902, USA.
SICOT J. 2017;3:36. doi: 10.1051/sicotj/2017019. Epub 2017 May 17.
The SICOT Conference Committee continually tries to improve the quality of presentations at their annual international meetings. However to the author's best knowledge, no previous study has been undertaken to determine abstract quality. This study aimed to determine the five-year publication rate of presentations made at the 2009 SICOT Annual International Conference (AIC), recognise predictors of full-text publication, identify inconsistencies between presentations and publications, and determine presentation-publication delay.
We retrieved all 329 oral presentation abstracts from the 2009 SICOT Conference, recorded fundamental study details and conducted a comprehensive, electronic search of Medline and PubMed to determine publication status. For subsequent publications, we examined for inconsistencies between presentation abstracts and full-text publications, whether there were retrospectively identifiable publication predictors and calculated presentation-publication delay.
The five-year publication rate for all presentations was 31.3%, for oral presentations. The average presentation-publication delay was 23.4 months. Observational studies were the most commonly published studies. Publications most commonly resulted from studies related to hip and knee subspecialties.
Our study shows that almost one third of all abstracts presented at SICOT led to a full-text publication. This is a positive outcome particularly when made in comparison to similar studies of other reputable international conferences such as European Federation of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). This study re-enforces SICOT's reputation as a world leading international conference with a strict peer-review process yielding high-quality presentations.
SICOT会议委员会一直在努力提高其年度国际会议的报告质量。然而，据作者所知，此前尚未有研究对摘要质量进行评估。本研究旨在确定在2009年SICOT年度国际会议（AIC）上所作报告的五年发表率，识别全文发表的预测因素，找出报告与发表内容之间的不一致之处，并确定报告发表延迟情况。
我们检索了2009年SICOT会议的所有329篇口头报告摘要，记录了基础研究细节，并对Medline和PubMed进行了全面的电子检索以确定发表状态。对于后续发表的文章，我们检查了报告摘要与全文发表之间的不一致之处，是否存在可追溯识别的发表预测因素，并计算了报告发表延迟。
所有报告的五年发表率为31.3%，口头报告的五年发表率为31.3%。报告发表的平均延迟时间为23.4个月。观察性研究是最常发表的研究类型。发表的文章大多来自与髋部和膝部亚专业相关的研究。
我们的研究表明，在SICOT会议上展示的所有摘要中，近三分之一最终形成了全文发表。与其他知名国际会议（如欧洲骨科学与创伤外科学会（EFORT）和美国骨科医师学会（AAOS））的类似研究相比，这是一个积极的成果。本研究进一步巩固了SICOT作为世界领先国际会议的声誉，其严格的同行评审过程产生了高质量的报告。
