Reporting Quality of Abstracts Presented at the European Association of Urology Meeting: A Critical Assessment
| العنوان: | Reporting Quality of Abstracts Presented at the European Association of Urology Meeting: A Critical Assessment |
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| المؤلفون: | Cosimo De Nunzio, Andrea Tubaro, Marco De Sio, V. Mirone, Camine Di Palma, Rocco Damiano, Raffaele Balsamo, Francesco Cantiello, Giuseppina Azzarito, Rachid Yakoubi, Riccardo Autorino |
| المصدر: | Journal of Urology. 188:1883-1886 |
| بيانات النشر: | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2012. |
| سنة النشر: | 2012 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Quality Control, medicine.medical_specialty, Abstracting and Indexing, Urology, media_common.quotation_subject, MEDLINE, randomized controlled trials as topic, Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology, journal article, law.invention, Randomized controlled trial, law, medicine, Quality (business), meeting abstracts, Meeting Abstracts, Societies, Medical, media_common, clinical trials as topic, business.industry, urology, Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials, Congresses as Topic, Europe, Critical assessment, business |
| الوصف: | We assessed the reporting quality of randomized and nonrandomized, controlled trials presented in abstract form at the European Association of Urology annual meeting in a 10-year period and determined the impact on subsequent publication.Abstracts presented at the European Association of Urology annual meetings in 1998, 1999, 2008 and 2009 were retrieved and included in analysis. Two 2-year meeting periods were considered, including 1) 1998 and 1999, and 2) 2008 and 2009. Two standardized forms were constructed based on the CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) and STROBE (Strengthening the Reporting of Observational studies in Epidemiology) guidelines, each including 15 and 16 items for randomized and nonrandomized, controlled trials, respectively. Reporting quality was assessed by measuring the proportion of items respected by authors when preparing the abstract, defined as the score ratio. Subsequent full-length publication within 2 years after the meeting was also determined by a PubMed® search. Differences between the 2 periods were analyzed by the chi-square and simple t tests. Predictors of subsequent full-length publication were evaluated by multiple logistic regression using meeting period, topic, country of origin, design, multi-institutional study and the proportion of reported items (score ratio).A total of 3,139 abstracts were included in analysis, of which 375 (11.9%) were randomized, controlled trials. Overall oncology represented the main topic (49.2% of all abstracts). The score ratio (proportion of adequately reported items in each abstract) was better for period 1 than 2 for randomized, controlled trials (63% vs 57%) but better for period 2 than 1 for nonrandomized, controlled trials (55.4% vs 53.2%, each p0.001). Abstracts describing multi-institutional studies were more likely to be followed by full-length publication (OR 1.82, 95% CI 1.44-2.30). Other features, including reporting quality (score ratio), did not predict subsequent publication.The reporting quality of European Association of Urology meeting abstracts did not improve in a decade. Nevertheless, this factor did not impact subsequent full-length publication. Ultimately, the reporting quality of abstracts remains to be improved by following currently available guidelines. |
| تدمد: | 1527-3792 0022-5347 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::bfb7f626b2ac54eab0d18c7209a52b3eTest https://doi.org/10.1016/j.juro.2012.07.041Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....bfb7f626b2ac54eab0d18c7209a52b3e |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15273792 00225347 |
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