2007年美国第23届创伤骨科年会简介

美国创伤骨科学会（Orthopaedic Trauma Association，OTA）于1984年成立，是一个有关骨创伤的科学与教育组织，其宗旨为“致力于研究与传播骨骼肌肉组织损伤的预防、诊断及治疗的知识与信息”。第23届美国创伤骨科年会于2007年10月17—20日在美国东部美丽的港口城市波士顿举行。     

第二届全国创伤骨科学术大会纪要

第二届全国创伤骨科大会就近年来创伤骨科新技术在国内应用进行了大量初期报告，对普及技术进行了长时间病例的总结。来稿数量及参会人数较上届有增加。新技术与传统技术在临床上的应用还需要更多的比较研究。大会延续了上届大会的成功经验，取得圆满成功。     

English publication rate of 3,205 abstracts presented at the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association and the Annual Research Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association

Background

Previous studies reported that the publication rate of abstracts presented at overseas meetings was around 50 %. The study objectives were to determine the rate of publication in English-language journals and the impact factor (IF) for all papers presented at the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) and Annual Research Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOAR), and to compare the publication rates and IFs from abstracts accepted for oral versus poster presentations.

Methods

Titles and first authors were identified for 1,676 abstracts of free papers accepted for presentation to the JOA in 2006 and 2007, and 1,529 abstracts to the JOAR from 2006 to 2008. We identified the associated journal publications by searching PubMed, and IFs were determined using the journal citation reports. The publication rates and IFs for papers accepted for oral versus poster presentations were compared using statistical analysis.

Results

The overall publication rate was 25.5 % from the JOA and 50 % from the JOAR. There were no significant differences in yearly publication rates, or between oral and poster presentations for each year. The average IFs for all publications from the JOA was 2.45 and that from the JOAR was 3.5. There were no significant differences in yearly IFs, or between oral and poster presentations for each year (P > 0.05).

Conclusions

The rate from JOAR was similar to publication rates for abstracts presented at overseas orthopedic meetings, however, the rate from JOA was half that of publication rates for abstracts presented at overseas orthopedic meetings, indicating that JOA may provide a below average contribution of new medical data to the international scientific community. No significant difference in publication rates between oral and poster presentations were found, and this suggests a need for improvement of the review system for the annual meeting and that review scores at the meetings did not predict the publication fate of abstracts.