Abrams Marlin, Bruijns Stevan R, van Hoving Daniël J
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, University of Cape Town, 1 Anzio Road, Observatory, Cape Town 7935, South Africa.
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, University of Stellenbosch, PO Box 241, Cape Town 8000, South Africa.
Afr J Emerg Med. 2019 Jun;9(2):101-105. doi: 10.1016/j.afjem.2019.01.012. Epub 2019 Feb 4.
Evidence based medicine is the standard of modern health care practices. Ongoing biomedical research is needed to expand existing knowledge and improve quality of care, but it needs to reach clinicians to drive change. Journal articles and conference presentations are dissemination tools. The aim of the study was to establish the publication rate of scientific abstracts presented at the first and second African Conference of Emergency Medicine. The secondary objectives were establishing non-publication dissemination and the factors associated with publication and non-publication. Determining non-publication dissemination patterns and the factors associated with reasons for publishing or non-publication were also investigated.
Presenters of the 129 scientific abstracts from the first and second African Conference of Emergency Medicine were invited to participate in an online survey. The survey was followed by a manual literature search to identify published manuscripts of authors that did not complete the survey, to determine the most accurate publication rate.
Thirty-one presenters responded (24%), of which 18 published in a peer-reviewed journal. An additional 25 publications were identified by the literature search. The overall publication rate was 33.3% (26.9% from 2012 and 40.3% from 2014). Oral presentations were more likely to be published (p = 0.09). Sixteen manuscripts (37.2%) were published in the African Journal of Emergency Medicine. Presentations at local academic meetings were the most used platform beyond publication (43%). The main reason to publish was to add to the body of knowledge (100%), while lack of time (57%) was the major obstacle for not publishing.
The overall publication rate for the first and second Africa Conferences of Emergency Medicine is comparable to other non-African Emergency Medicine conferences. The increasing publication trend between conferences might reflect the development of regional research capacity. Emergency Medicine providers in Africa need to be encouraged to participate in high quality, locally relevant research and to distribute those findings through accessible formats.
循证医学是现代医疗实践的标准。持续的生物医学研究对于扩展现有知识和提高医疗质量是必要的，但研究成果需要传达给临床医生以推动变革。期刊文章和会议报告是传播工具。本研究的目的是确定在第一届和第二届非洲急诊医学会议上发表的科学摘要的发表率。次要目标是确定未发表情况下的传播方式以及与发表和未发表相关的因素。还调查了确定未发表情况下的传播模式以及与发表或未发表原因相关的因素。
邀请了第一届和第二届非洲急诊医学会议上129篇科学摘要的作者参加在线调查。调查之后进行了人工文献检索，以识别未完成调查的作者已发表的手稿，从而确定最准确的发表率。
31位作者回复（24%），其中18位在同行评审期刊上发表。通过文献检索又发现了25篇发表的文章。总体发表率为33.3%（2012年为26.9%，2014年为40.3%）。口头报告更有可能发表（p = 0.09）。16篇手稿（37.2%）发表在《非洲急诊医学杂志》上。除发表外，当地学术会议上的报告是最常用的传播平台（43%）。发表的主要原因是增加知识体系（100%），而缺乏时间（57%）是未发表的主要障碍。
第一届和第二届非洲急诊医学会议的总体发表率与其他非非洲急诊医学会议相当。两届会议之间不断上升的发表趋势可能反映了区域研究能力的发展。需要鼓励非洲的急诊医学从业者参与高质量、与当地相关的研究，并以易于获取的形式传播这些研究结果。
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