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Differences Between ADEA Annual Session Poster Abstracts and Their Corresponding Full Published Articles
Author(s) -
Yuan Judy ChiaChun,
Galang Maria Therese S.,
Lee Damian J.,
Barao Valentim A.R.,
Shyamsunder Nodesh,
Sukotjo Cortino
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of dental education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1930-7837
pISSN - 0022-0337
DOI - 10.1002/j.0022-0337.2011.75.11.tb05205.x
Subject(s) - minor (academic) , session (web analytics) , variation (astronomy) , dental research , exhibition , presentation (obstetrics) , psychology , library science , descriptive statistics , dental education , medicine , family medicine , medical education , statistics , dentistry , computer science , history , mathematics , world wide web , political science , surgery , physics , archaeology , astrophysics , law
The purpose of this study was to investigate differences between abstracts of posters presented at the 79 th (2002) and 80 th (2003) Annual Session & Exhibition of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) and the published full‐length articles resulting from the same studies. The abstracts for poster presentation sessions were downloaded, and basic characteristics of the abstracts and their authors were determined. A PubMed search was then performed to identify the publication of full‐length articles based on those abstracts in a peer‐reviewed journal. The differences between the abstract and the article were examined and categorized as major and minor differences. Differences identified included authorship, title, materials and methods, results, conclusions, and funding. Data were analyzed with both descriptive and analytic statistics. Overall, 89 percent of the abstracts had at least one variation from its corresponding article, and 65 percent and 76 percent of the abstracts had at least one major and minor variation, respectively, from its corresponding article. The most prevalent major variation was in study results, and the most prevalent minor variation was change in the number of authors. The discussion speculates on some possible reasons for these differences.