Impact of Blinded Versus Unblinded Abstract Review on Scientific Program Content

A procedure whereby reviewers are not informed of the author or institutional identity for submitted abstracts is sometimes considered a more equitable and impartial process for selection of the content for a scientific program. We performed a prospective randomized study to evaluate the impact of a reviewer blinding process on scientific program content.A total of 234 abstracts submitted for presentation at the 2001 meeting of the Southeastern...