Response to Letters Regarding Article, “Conversion of Cardiovascular Conference Abstracts to Publications”

Response to letters regarding article, “Conversion of cardiovascular conference abstracts to publications”.

Winnik et al comment in a letter 1 about our recent article on converting Scientific Session abstracts into peer-reviewed publications. 2 Winnik et al conducted and reported a very comprehensive manual study on this same topic using data from ≈1000 randomly selected abstracts from the European Society of Cardiology Scientific Sessions. 3 Their study was published when our manuscript was in the ...

Conversion of cardiovascular conference abstracts to publications.

BACKGROUND The transition of scientific knowledge from discovery into practice is less than ideal. A key step in this translation occurs when presentations from major meetings are published in peer-reviewed literature, yet the completeness and speed of this process are not known. We performed a systematic and automated evaluation of rates, timing, and correlates of publication from scientific a...

Health Services and Outcomes Research Conversion of Cardiovascular Conference Abstracts to Publications

Characteristics From 2006 to 2008, a total of 27 564 scientific abstracts were presented at the AHA, ACC, and ESC annual scientific meetings. Of these, 356 abstracts were excluded from the analysis because of double entries, making the final number of presented abstracts for our study 27 208. These included 11 365 from AHA, 5005 from ACC, and 10 838 from ESC. Table 1 shows the characteristics o...

Conversion rate of research abstracts to publications in pediatric dentistry.

Response to letters regarding article, "unexpected effect of proton pump inhibitors: elevation of the cardiovascular risk factor asymmetric dimethylarginine".

BACKGROUND Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are gastric acid-suppressing agents widely prescribed for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease. Recently, several studies in patients with acute coronary syndrome have raised the concern that use of PPIs in these patients may increase their risk of major adverse cardiovascular events. The mechanism of this possible adverse effect is not known...