ABSTRACT
Objetivo. Analizar cuántas comunicaciones presentadas en los congresos nacionales de Atención Primaria (CNAP) se publican en revistas indexadas. Diseño. Estudio descriptivo retrospectivo. Emplazamiento y mediciones principales. Fuente de datos: libros de ponencias de los CNAP celebrados en el año 2001; a través del primer autor de la comunicación se buscó en internet [Medline e Índice Médico Español (IME)] si fue publicada, nombre de la revista, idioma, año y diseño del estudio. Resultados. Se presentaron 528 comunicaciones (46,6% orales). Encontramos indexadas en Medline 33 (6,3%) (31 en el congreso de SemFYC y 2 en el congreso de SEMERGEN; p = 0,0001) y en el IME 57 artículos indexados (10,8%). Las revistas que recogen un mayor número de comunicaciones publicadas son Atención Primaria y Semergen; en revistas de lengua inglesa se publicaron 3 artículos. Los estudios descriptivos fueron el diseño más frecuente. Conclusiones. En los CNAP se presentan muchas comunicaciones, aunque se publican pocas, fundamentalmente en las revistas de las Sociedades de Atención Primaria que organizan los congresos
Objective. To determine how many poster and free oral communications accepted by Spanish national primary care congresses are fi nally published in peer review journals as full text articles. Methods. This is a retrospective, descriptive study. We used the abstract books of the Spanish national primary care congresses held in 2001. We selected the free oral and poster communications and using the name of the fi rst author we searched on the Internet (PubMed and the Spanish Medical Index IME-) for full text publications of these abstracts. We recorded the study design, journal name, language and year of publication of all articles found. Results. A total of 528 of these types of communications (46.6% oral) were accepted by Spanish national primary carecongresses in 2001. We found 33 articles indexed in PubMed (6.3%), 31 were from the SemFYC congress and 2 from the SEMERGEN congress; p=0.0001. On the IME, we found 57 articles (10.8%). The target journals were Atención Primaria and Semergen. We found three articles in English. Descriptive design was the most frequent design in the articles. Conclusions. Although we found numerous free oral and poster communications submitted and accepted by the Spanish national primary care congresses in 2001, it is clear that very fewof these studies become full text publications in peer review journals. These being mainly Spanish language journals
