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International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
|January 5, 2002
Abstract
Objectives:
To assess the extent to which abstracts of methodological research, initially presented at meetings on systematic reviews, have gone on to be published as full articles.
Methods:
Full publication was assessed in three ways: a search was carried out of The Cochrane Library; a search was conducted using MEDLINE; and a questionnaire was sent to the contact author of each abstract.
Results:
Approximately half of the abstracts had not been, or were unlikely ever to be, published in full.
Conclusions:
The rate of full publication of abstracts related to the methodology of systematic reviews seems similar to that for randomized trials.