title: Are medical conferences useful? And for whom?
authors.affiliation: Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA. jioannid@stanford.edu
authors.forename: John P A
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Ioannidis
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D016265:Conflict of Interest; D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000191:economics / Q000941:ethics / Q000639:trends*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004501:Education, Medical; D007221:Industry; D008511:Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D010380:Peer Review; D010820:Physicians; D012106:Research / Q000639:trends; D060756:Social Networking; D014195:Travel