How the ESPU grades clinical abstracts

Martin Kaefer; Goedele Beckers; Rita Gobet; Alaa El-Ghoneimi; Magdalena Fossum; ESPU Research Committee

doi:10.1016/j.jpurol.2018.07.009

How the ESPU grades clinical abstracts

J Pediatr Urol. 2018 Oct;14(5):451-452. doi: 10.1016/j.jpurol.2018.07.009. Epub 2018 Jul 21.

Authors

Martin Kaefer¹, Goedele Beckers², Rita Gobet³, Alaa El-Ghoneimi⁴, Magdalena Fossum⁵; ESPU Research Committee

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatric Urology, Riley Children's Hospital, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
² Department of Urology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Pediatric Urology, Kinderspital, Zürich, Switzerland.
⁴ University Hospital Robert Debré, Paris, France.
⁵ Department of Pediatric Urology, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; Dept. of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: magdalena.fossum@ki.se.

PMID: 30181100
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpurol.2018.07.009

Abstract

The ability to consistently review abstracts in an unbiased and objective fashion is a skill that most academics hope to master. However, robust standardized rating systems are sparse, with most scientific boards leaving the task of rating abstracts poorly defined and at the whim of the reviewer. In an effort to bring consistency to this process, in 2013, the ESPU board adopted an abstract rating system that has been previously used in the field of plastic surgery and orthopedics. (van der Steen et al., 2004; Poolman et al., 2007). The aim of this manuscript is to outline this practice.

Keywords: Abstract; ESPU; grading; peer-review; systematic.

MeSH terms

Abstracting and Indexing / standards*
Europe
Pediatrics*
Societies, Medical*
Urology*