title: Publication rates for abstracts presented at the British Association of Plastic Surgeons meetings: how do we compare with other specialties?
abstract: We present a retrospective study of the publication rates of articles presented to five meetings of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons between 1995 and 1999. The PubMed database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/) was searched using the presenter's name and key words from the abstract. Publication rates varied from 23% for the Winter Meeting of 1999 to 54% for the Winter Meeting of 1997. The mean time lag from presentation to publication varied between 13 and 25 months (range: 1-46 months). These results are comparable to those found in some other medical specialties.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The Radcliffe Infirmary, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Oliver
authors.forename: I S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Whitaker
authors.forename: D P K
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Chohan
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D008511:Medicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013038:Specialization; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*