Nephrol Dial Transplant (2001) 16: 1117-1119
© 2001 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association
ERA-EDTA News
Patterns of the abstracts submitted and accepted at the Congresses of ERA-EDTA Madrid (1999) and ERA-EDTA and EKRA Nice (2000)
1 Azienda Ospedale di Lecco, Ospedale A. Manzoni, Lecco, Italy, 2 Hôpital Nord CHU, Saint-Etienne Cédex 2, France, 3 Hôpital Tenon, Paris, France and 4 Hospital Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain
Introduction
The Nice congress was the first combined ERA-EDTA and European Kidney Research Association (EKRA) Congress. As expected, we have recorded an increase in both the amount and the quality of the scientific work. The objective of this editorial is to describe the patterns of the abstracts submitted to the Nice congress in the year 2000, and to compare them with the patterns of the ERA-EDTA congress in Madrid, the year before.
Nice Congress (2000)
The number of abstracts submitted to the ERA-EDTA Congresses has continued to increase (mean increase 64 abstracts per year) (Figure 1
). As expected, the largest number of abstracts was devoted to Dialysis
Differences between the Nice (2000) and Madrid (1999) Congresses
Differences between countries
Acknowledgments
Notes