Objective: to assess the conversion rate of Plastic Surgery meeting abstract presentations to full manuscript publications and examine factors associated with this conversion. Methods: we assessed the abstracts presented at the 47th and 48th Brazilian Congresses of Plastic Surgery by cross-referencing with multiple databases. We analyzed the Abstracts' characteristics associated with full manuscript publications. Results: of the 200 abstracts presented, 50 abstracts were subsequently published in full, giving the conference a conversion rate of 25%. The mean time to publish was 15.00±13.75 months. In total, there were 4.93±1.63 authors per abstract and 67.8±163 subjects per abstract; 43.5% of the abstracts were of retrospective studies; 69% comprised the plastic surgery topics head and neck, and chest and trunk, and 88.5% had no statistical analysis. Overall, 80% of the manuscripts were published in plastic surgery journals, 76% had no impact factor and 52% had no citations. Bivariate and multivariate analyses revealed the presence of statistical analysis to be the most significant (p<0.05) predictive factor of conversion of abstracts into full manuscripts. Conclusion: the conversion rate found from this bibliometric research appeared a bit lower than the conversion trend of international plastic surgery meetings, and statistical analysis was a determinant of conversion success.

Introduction: heart failure is a crippling disease that reduces the quality of life; therefore, it is a serious public health problem. Objectives: to analyze the epidemiological and assistance care profile of heart failure patients admitted to a regional reference hospital. Statistically correlate clinical signs to diagnostic criteria and admissions to primary care services. To verify consistency between the treatment used and heart failure guidelines. Patients and methods: this was a prevalence, cross-sectional, and an exploratory study conducted through the reading of medical charts from a regional reference hospital from patients whose cause for hospitalization was heart failure in 2010. The data were analyzed in the Epi-Info 3.5 software. Frequency analysis and Odds Ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval were calculated taking into account the P-value calculated through the Fisher's exact test. The project was approved by the University Ethics Committee (Protocol 159/2011). Results: 54 medical records were analyzed; 81% of patients had access to a primary care unit in the area of their residence. Dyslipidemia was associated with the highest number of hospitalizations (OR = 16/P = 0.034). The primary etiology of heart failure was systemic hypertensive heart disease (72.2%). The main risk factors found were hypertension (66.7%), smoking (48.1%), diabetes mellitus (44.4%), and dyslipidemia (40.7%). Out of the heart failure diagnoses, 68.52% could have been made from the Framingham criteria. Conclusions: permanent education programs are needed for addressing heart failure risk factors, evaluation and adherence to treatment, and active search for cases in the primary care as well as diagnosis of heart failure and its proper management.

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