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Conference presentation to publication: a retrospective study evaluating quality of abstracts and journal articles in medical education research

BACKGROUND: There is little evidence regarding the comparative quality of abstracts and articles in medical education research. The Medical Education Research Study Quality Instrument (MERSQI), which was developed to evaluate the quality of reporting in medical education, has strong validity evidenc...

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Autores principales: Stephenson, Christopher R., Vaa, Brianna E., Wang, Amy T., Schroeder, Darrell R., Beckman, Thomas J., Reed, Darcy A., Sawatsky, Adam P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5680828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29121891
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-017-1048-3
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author Stephenson, Christopher R.
Vaa, Brianna E.
Wang, Amy T.
Schroeder, Darrell R.
Beckman, Thomas J.
Reed, Darcy A.
Sawatsky, Adam P.
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Vaa, Brianna E.
Wang, Amy T.
Schroeder, Darrell R.
Beckman, Thomas J.
Reed, Darcy A.
Sawatsky, Adam P.
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description BACKGROUND: There is little evidence regarding the comparative quality of abstracts and articles in medical education research. The Medical Education Research Study Quality Instrument (MERSQI), which was developed to evaluate the quality of reporting in medical education, has strong validity evidence for content, internal structure, and relationships to other variables. We used the MERSQI to compare the quality of reporting for conference abstracts, journal abstracts, and published articles. METHODS: This is a retrospective study of all 46 medical education research abstracts submitted to the Society of General Internal Medicine 2009 Annual Meeting that were subsequently published in a peer-reviewed journal. We compared MERSQI scores of the abstracts with scores for their corresponding published journal abstracts and articles. Comparisons were performed using the signed rank test. RESULTS: Overall MERSQI scores increased significantly for published articles compared with conference abstracts (11.33 vs 9.67; P < .001) and journal abstracts (11.33 vs 9.96; P < .001). Regarding MERSQI subscales, published articles had higher MERSQI scores than conference abstracts in the domains of sampling (1.59 vs 1.34; P = .006), data analysis (3.00 vs 2.43; P < .001), and validity of evaluation instrument (1.04 vs 0.28; P < .001). Published articles also had higher MERSQI scores than journal abstracts in the domains of data analysis (3.00 vs 2.70; P = .004) and validity of evaluation instrument (1.04 vs 0.26; P < .001). CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge, this is the first study to compare the quality of medical education abstracts and journal articles using the MERSQI. Overall, the quality of articles was greater than that of abstracts. However, there were no significant differences between abstracts and articles for the domains of study design and outcomes, which indicates that these MERSQI elements may be applicable to abstracts. Findings also suggest that abstract quality is generally preserved from original presentation to publication.
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spelling pubmed-56808282017-11-17 Conference presentation to publication: a retrospective study evaluating quality of abstracts and journal articles in medical education research Stephenson, Christopher R. Vaa, Brianna E. Wang, Amy T. Schroeder, Darrell R. Beckman, Thomas J. Reed, Darcy A. Sawatsky, Adam P. BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: There is little evidence regarding the comparative quality of abstracts and articles in medical education research. The Medical Education Research Study Quality Instrument (MERSQI), which was developed to evaluate the quality of reporting in medical education, has strong validity evidence for content, internal structure, and relationships to other variables. We used the MERSQI to compare the quality of reporting for conference abstracts, journal abstracts, and published articles. METHODS: This is a retrospective study of all 46 medical education research abstracts submitted to the Society of General Internal Medicine 2009 Annual Meeting that were subsequently published in a peer-reviewed journal. We compared MERSQI scores of the abstracts with scores for their corresponding published journal abstracts and articles. Comparisons were performed using the signed rank test. RESULTS: Overall MERSQI scores increased significantly for published articles compared with conference abstracts (11.33 vs 9.67; P < .001) and journal abstracts (11.33 vs 9.96; P < .001). Regarding MERSQI subscales, published articles had higher MERSQI scores than conference abstracts in the domains of sampling (1.59 vs 1.34; P = .006), data analysis (3.00 vs 2.43; P < .001), and validity of evaluation instrument (1.04 vs 0.28; P < .001). Published articles also had higher MERSQI scores than journal abstracts in the domains of data analysis (3.00 vs 2.70; P = .004) and validity of evaluation instrument (1.04 vs 0.26; P < .001). CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge, this is the first study to compare the quality of medical education abstracts and journal articles using the MERSQI. Overall, the quality of articles was greater than that of abstracts. However, there were no significant differences between abstracts and articles for the domains of study design and outcomes, which indicates that these MERSQI elements may be applicable to abstracts. Findings also suggest that abstract quality is generally preserved from original presentation to publication. BioMed Central 2017-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5680828/ /pubmed/29121891 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-017-1048-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Schroeder, Darrell R.
Beckman, Thomas J.
Reed, Darcy A.
Sawatsky, Adam P.
Conference presentation to publication: a retrospective study evaluating quality of abstracts and journal articles in medical education research
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5680828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29121891
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-017-1048-3
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