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Abstract checker for medical meetings
Paste your abstract and pick the meeting. You see its length counted the way that meeting counts it, whether the required sections are there, and numbers in your abstract that disagree with each other.
Automated checks: they can miss things or flag something that is fine. The meeting's own rules and submission site decide.
What it found
Your abstract, with the numbers marked
Writing the full paper? DeskReady checks the whole manuscript the same way: numbers against the tables, claims against the results, every reference against the databases. Your first check is free.
Check your whole paperWhat it checks
- Length, the way each meeting counts it. AACR, ASCO and ESMO count characters without spaces, including the title; ASH and ESC count characters with spaces in the body only; ESCMID, EAN and ESHG count words. Tables and images take a fixed share at some meetings (a table is 800 characters at AACR, an image 500 at ADA). The rules for each meeting are quoted, with a link to the official page.
- Title and sections. The title limit where there is one, and the headings the meeting asks for.
- Numbers that disagree. A count and its percentage ("42/49 (92%)" is 85.7%), an estimate outside its own confidence interval, and a hazard or odds ratio whose 95% interval includes 1 while the p-value says significant (or the other way round).
- Placeholders. "Results will be presented", "XX%", "TBD": most meetings expect the data in the abstract.
We tested the number checks on 1,127 published ASH and ASCO abstracts that were held out while the checks were written. Even among accepted abstracts, 8 had a count or interval that didn't match, about 1 in 140; drafts tend to have more.
Questions
Is my abstract sent anywhere?
No. The checks run in your browser. The abstract is not uploaded, stored or logged.
Why is my count different from the submission site?
Each meeting counts differently: with or without spaces, with or without the title, tables as a fixed number of characters. The checker follows the meeting's published rules; the submission site has the final word, and special characters or formatting can make its count differ slightly.
What do the number checks look for?
Counts that don't match their percentages, estimates outside their own confidence interval, a ratio's interval and p-value that disagree, and placeholders such as "results will be presented". They are automated: they can miss things or flag something that is fine.
DeskReady is not affiliated with any of these meetings or societies.