Virtual Conferences and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Are We Missing Out with an Online Only Platform?

Virtual conferences rapidly became the norm during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although necessary, there are shortfalls to strictly virtual meetings, including less enthusiasm for submitting abstracts. An approach that combines in-person attendance and virtual platforms may be an optimal compromise both...

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Autores principales: Woodruff, Phillip, Wallis, Christopher J.D., Albers, Peter, Klaassen, Zachary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Association of Urology. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8006189/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33840557
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2021.03.019
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spelling pubmed-80061892021-03-29 Virtual Conferences and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Are We Missing Out with an Online Only Platform? Woodruff, Phillip Wallis, Christopher J.D. Albers, Peter Klaassen, Zachary Eur Urol Platinum Opinion Virtual conferences rapidly became the norm during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although necessary, there are shortfalls to strictly virtual meetings, including less enthusiasm for submitting abstracts. An approach that combines in-person attendance and virtual platforms may be an optimal compromise both during the ongoing pandemic and moving forward. European Association of Urology. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021-08 2021-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8006189/ /pubmed/33840557 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2021.03.019 Text en © 2021 European Association of Urology. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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