{"entity":{"id":"idea-data-full-data-with-abstract","kind":"idea","name":"End the abstract-to-paper gap: require full results with any conference presentation","aka":[],"tldr":"Trial results are often presented at conferences months or years before the full paper appears, leaving doctors to act on slides. Require that the full structured results are published the same day.","summary":"Practice-changing results are frequently presented as late-breaking abstracts with full publication lagging a year or more, and some never appear. The proposal is a joint policy of the major congresses and journals: any presented phase 3 result must be accompanied by simultaneous publication or deposition of the full structured results package (protocol, statistical analysis plan, results tables), with the abstract itself openly licensed.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"Bottleneck evidence (Knowledge reaches practice too slowly): Morris, Wooding & Grant, The answer is 17 years, what is the question (JRSM 2011)","url":"https://doi.org/10.1258/jrsm.2011.110180"}],"tags":[],"related":["idea-data-structured-trial-results-deposit"],"cancers":[],"sections":["ai-computation"],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["asco","esmo"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":["b-knowledge-diffusion","b-negative-results"],"keyPapers":["paper-morris-j-r-soc-med"],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"hypothesis":"Simultaneous deposition will eliminate the median lag between presentation and full availability and reduce discrepancies between abstracts and eventual papers.","rationale":"Studies find meaningful discrepancies between conference abstracts and subsequent publications; the New England Journal of Medicine and others already coordinate simultaneous publication for some trials, showing feasibility.","test":"Measure abstract-to-publication lag and discrepancy rate for phase 3 oncology trials presented at major congresses over two years; implement the policy at one congress and re-measure.","maturity":"speculative","actor":"policy","cost":"small","horizonYears":2},"route":"/ideas/idea-data-full-data-with-abstract/","neighbours":{"idea":[{"id":"idea-data-structured-trial-results-deposit","kind":"idea","name":"Deposit trial results as structured data, not just PDFs","route":"/ideas/idea-data-structured-trial-results-deposit/"}],"section":[{"id":"ai-computation","kind":"section","name":"AI & Computation","route":"/fronts/ai-computation/"}],"institution":[{"id":"asco","kind":"institution","name":"American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)","route":"/institutions/asco/"},{"id":"esmo","kind":"institution","name":"European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)","route":"/institutions/esmo/"}],"bottleneck":[{"id":"b-negative-results","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Failures are hidden","route":"/bottlenecks/b-negative-results/"},{"id":"b-knowledge-diffusion","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Knowledge reaches practice too slowly","route":"/bottlenecks/b-knowledge-diffusion/"}],"paper":[{"id":"paper-morris-j-r-soc-med","kind":"paper","name":"The answer is 17 years, what is the question: understanding time lags in translational research","route":"/key-papers/paper-morris-j-r-soc-med/"}]}}