Objects To retrospectively analyze the accepted abstracts by the Cochrane Colloquiums in recent 5 years, so as to learn the advances and development trend for next stage in evidence-based medicine field. MethodsAbstracts accepted by the 19th to 23rd Cochrane Colloquiums were collected, and relevant information was extracted. Then, a descriptive analysis was conducted. Outcomes A total of 2088 abstracts were accepted in recent five Cochrane Colloquiums. Europe contributed the most abstracts, in the top 10 contribution countries, five countries were located in Europe. Colleges/Universities were the major contributing institutes, McMaster University of Canada (165, 7.90%) and Lanzhou University of China (118, 5.65%) were the top two contributing institutions. The number of authors of most accepted abstracts were 3 to 5(1011, 48.42%). The top three topics focused by these abstracts were evidence (417, 19.97%), methodology (412, 19.73%) and risk of bias (220, 10.54%). ConclusionsEuropean countries are major contributing countries of abstracts of the Cochrane Colloquium, and colleges/universities are the major contributing institutions. Retrieval and methodology are research hot in recent 5 years. Attention should be paid to breakthrough progress in methodology in future.
The standards for reporting of diagnostic accuracy for studies in journal or conference abstracts (STARD for Abstracts) was developed for guiding the reporting of abstracts of diagnostic accuracy studies, which was published in BMJ in August 2017. The study mainly introduced and interpreted the items of STARD for Abstracts, in order to help domestic researchers to perform and report the abstracts of diagnostic accuracy studies by STARD for Abstracts.