Published abstracts at international meetings often over- or underestimate the initial response rate

Abstracts of Papers Published

S OF PAPERS PUBLISHED April 1, 2001 – March 31, 2002 Isoscalar Giant Resonances in Si and the Mass Dependence of Nuclear Compressibility D. H. Youngblood, Y. -W. Lui, and H. L. Clark Phys. Rev. C 65, 034302 (2002) The giant resonance region from 8 MeV<Ex<55 MeV in Si has been studied with inelastic scattering of 240 MeV α particles at small angles including 0°. Strength corresponding to 81±10%,...

What Happens When Experts Over- or Underestimate a Layperson’s Knowledge

To communicate effectively with laypersons, experts must take into account the knowledge of their communication partner. Although prior research has shown that experts tend to overor underestimate laypersons’ knowledge, little is known about the particular impact of such overand underestimations on communication. Particularly, in computer-mediated communication where feedback is limited, expert...

The fate of neuroradiologic abstracts presented at national meetings in 1993: rate of subsequent publication in peer-reviewed, indexed journals.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Abstract presentations are a valuable means of rapidly conveying new information; however, abstracts that fail to eventually become published are of little use to the general medical community. Our goals were to determine the publication rate of neuroradiologic papers originally presented at national meetings in 1993 and to assess publication rate as a function of neurora...

International patient charters are often nonbinding or feature fuzzy metrics.

International Abstracts

PERPETUATED To estimate small burn areas, the usual teaching is that the patient’s palm is 1% of body surface area. It has never been very clear whether this means the palm surface of the whole hand or the palm excluding the fingers. This is a source of confusion to many junior doctors. The Advanced Trauma Life Support student manual has been in contradiction to evidence from the literature and...