title: Publication rates of abstracts presented by pharmacy residents at the Western States Conference.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Investigators report the results of a study to determine the proportion of residency projects presented as abstracts at a regional residency conference that were subsequently published as full-length articles.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Using every third item listed in the abstract booklets from the Western States Conference for the years 1995, 2000, and 2005, a search of MEDLINE and EMBASE for journal citations indicating publication of the corresponding residency projects was conducted; the searches covered a period including and extending five years beyond the year of abstract presentation at the conference. Of the total of 270 abstracts evaluated, 17 were expanded to full-length articles and published within the search time frame. The average time to publication (mean ± S.D.) was 24 ± 10 months. The publication rates associated with abstracts presented at the 1995, 2000, and 2005 conferences were 4.2%, 5.2%, and 8.2%, respectively. All published articles appeared in peer-reviewed journals, with more than half (54.2%) in pharmacy journals. The majority of residency projects published were retrospective and prospective cohort studies. In most cases (58.8%), the resident was listed as the first author of the published journal article.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The overall publication rate of abstracts presented at a regional residency conference in 1995, 2000, and 2005 was 6.3%, with an increase in the rate over those years.
authors.affiliation: Pharmacy Department, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Aurora, 80011, USA. kari.olson@kp.org
authors.forename: Kari L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Olson
authors.forename: Meredith
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Holmes
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dang
authors.forename: Rachana J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Daniel M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Witt
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004514:Education, Pharmacy, Graduate / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007397:Internship, Nonmedical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States