title: Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication of Abstracts Presented at an International Emergency Medicine Scientific Meeting: Outcomes and Comparison With the Previous Meeting.
abstract: Scientific presentations at professional organization meetings have long been recognized as a method of providing up-to-date and novel information to both the medical and scientific community. After abstract presentation at a medical conference, the subsequent publication rate of full-text articles is variable, and few studies have examined this topic with respect to international emergency medicine conferences. This study's goals were to determine the publication rate of articles resulting from abstracts presented at the 12th International Conference on Emergency Medicine 2008 in San Francisco, Calif, and to compare this with data from the previous International Conference on Emergency Medicine 2006 conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. We found a reduction in publication rate from 33.2% in 2006 to 22.8% in 2008 and that the host country furnished a greater proportion of the abstracts. It would be interesting to examine how these potential trends played out over more extended periods.
authors.affiliation: From the *Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Dana-Dwek Children Hospital, University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel; †Divisions of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and ‡Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ichilov Hospital, University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: Ryan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Halickman
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Scolnik
authors.forename: Ayelet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rimon
authors.forename: Miguel Marcelo
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Glatstein