The National Reference Group identifies conferences held in Australia since 1980 that may include issues relevant to palliative care.
The Web site of the American Psychology-Law Society provides a link to a page for a 2012 meeting that identified a conference speaker, Susan E. Brandon, as chief of research for the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group, an interagency group created through an executive order, and said she had also been connected to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Department of Defense.
There were 11 abstracts identified from conference screening and one from reference screening.
Additionally, 29 references meeting the inclusion/exclusion criteria for the review were identified from conference proceedings.
Additional publications were identified from conference proceedings, back issues of relevant journals, bibliographies of retrieved publications and relevant websites.
Additionally, we identified one conference proceeding after scanning the reference lists of relevant articles and reviews (see the Characteristics of studies awaiting classification table).
25 34 Five of the included studies were unpublished, 26 28 30 31 four of which were identified as conference abstracts in our literature search, 26 28 31 while one was a protocol with results identified through searching the trial registries.
The EAC identified a conference abstract [ 27] that was not cited by the sponsor, but subsequent identification of the full paper revealed that it was a subset of the International E-vita open registry data and was therefore not included.
Our conference evaluation framework connects five key elements in planning a conference assessment and identifies eight conference objectives, seven purposes of evaluation, five evaluation methods, nine indicators of success and eight theories/models described in the literature.
For example, the dramatic acceleration in the growth of the world's population in the second half of the 20th century was a challenge first identified by conferences organized by the UN in the 1950s and '60s.
