Objectives: The present study, an international web-based survey, was focused on four aims: to obtain nursing professional's self-reported statistical knowledge levels and how this knowledge varies by research area, to investigate and specify when biostatistics courses should be taught in nursing education and to identify the key statistical methods relevant to nursing education. Methods: A total of 448 nursing professionals from five continents and 52 countries participated in our study. For the data comparison, Kruskal-Wallis test and Mann-Whitney U test were applied. Results: The results indicate that while nursing professionals place an emphasis on biostatistics education, the majority state that biostatistics education should be taken both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level and the participants also believe that taking a biostatistics course is useful for their occupation. A biostatistics education should also emphasize the necessity of consulting to a biostatistician when planning a study. Conclusion: Our study provides information regarding self-reported levels of biostatistical knowledge of nursing professionals by research area and academic position, and provides guidance regarding the ideal semester for administering a biostatistics course.

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The process of getting the abstracts published as journal articles is an exhaustive work due to the collection and analysis of clinical information, meticulously preparing manuscripts, statistical analysis of data, and subsequent critical peer review process. We investigate publication rate of abstracts presented at national and international statistics congresses in present study. For this purpose we considered abstracts presented at 5 th International Conference of the ERCIM Working Group on Computing&Statistics (ERCIM 2012) and 14 th National Biostatistics Congress of Turkey in 2012. Material and Methods: We invited participants who had participated ERCIM 2012 and 14 th National Biostatistics Congress to our study by sending e-mail to their email adresses that obtain from abstract books. Results: The present analysis found that 19.40% of abstracts presented at 14 th National Biostatistics Congress and 51.90% of abstracts presented at ERCIM 2012 were published as full peer-reviewed journal articles. Percentage of presentations was not sent to any journal to publish for 14th National Biostatistics Congress (51.60%) is higher than ERCIM 2012 (18.50%). In addition, percentage of presentation was accepted to be published in the journal for 14th National Biostatistics Congress (19.40%) is lower than ERCIM 2012 (51.90%). Conclusion: Even if all of the presentations presented at the congress is not published, importance of congress is undeniable by the reason of scientific-social communications made at congress and meetings where new ideas are born.