title: Full-text publication of abstracts presented at meetings of a Latin American scientific society.
abstract: To estimate the proportion of abstracts presented at meetings of the Latin American Society for Pediatric Research that are fully-published, to describe the reasons for not publishing papers, and to assess the impact of funding on the publication rate.
  
  
  
  Abstracts presented at meetings held between 2005 and 2009 were included. Authors were contacted and invited to take a survey on the publication of their work or the reasons not to do it.
  
  
  
  Information was collected on 232 (71.4%) of the 325 abstracts presented. Of these, 58.6% were fully-published (136/232). Funded studies (40.0%) had more chances of publication (OR: 2.2; 95% CI: 1.2-3.9). "Lack of time" was the most common reason for failure to publish (35/96).
  
  
  
  58.6% of abstracts presented at meetings of the Latin American Society for Pediatric Research, were published as full-text articles; lack of time was the most common reason for failure to publish. Funded research had more chances of being published.
authors.affiliation: Docencia e Investigación, Hospital General de Niños Pedro de Elizalde, Buenos Aires.
authors.forename: Manuela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dicembrino
authors.affiliation: Docencia e Investigación, Hospital General de Niños Pedro de Elizalde, Buenos Aires.
authors.forename: Mariana
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.affiliation: Docencia e Investigación, Hospital General de Niños Pedro de Elizalde, Buenos Aires.
authors.forename: Ana Gabriela
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Vely
authors.affiliation: Docencia e Investigación, Hospital General de Niños Pedro de Elizalde, Buenos Aires.
authors.forename: María Fabiana
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Ossorio
authors.affiliation: Docencia e Investigación, Hospital General de Niños Pedro de Elizalde, Buenos Aires.
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ferrero
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007843:Latin America; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012958:Societies, Scientific