Peer Review of Abstracts Submitted to An Internal Medicine National Meeting: Is It a Predictor of Future Publication?

Cecilia Scholcoff^{1

2}, Payal Sanghani^{3

4}, Wilkins Jackson⁵, Heidi M Egloff⁶, Adam P Sawatsky⁷, Jeffrey L Jackson^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI, USA. Cecilia.scholcoff@va.gov.
² Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA. Cecilia.scholcoff@va.gov.
³ Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
⁴ Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
⁵ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
⁶ University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁷ Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

Cecilia Scholcoff et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2018 Jul.

. 2018 Jul;33(7):1002-1003.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-018-4416-8.

Cecilia Scholcoff^{1

2}, Payal Sanghani^{3

4}, Wilkins Jackson⁵, Heidi M Egloff⁶, Adam P Sawatsky⁷, Jeffrey L Jackson^{3

4}

¹ Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI, USA. Cecilia.scholcoff@va.gov.
² Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA. Cecilia.scholcoff@va.gov.
³ Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
⁴ Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
⁵ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
⁶ University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁷ Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: medicine research; publication rate; research abstract; scientific conference.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they do not have a conflict of interest.

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