REVIEW OF THE REVIEWER

Reviewers can disagree substantially when evaluating the same material s. For papers submitted to an editorial board, the Editor-in-Chief can suggest compromises. However, this is not the case in the normal abst ract grading procedures for large meetings. If important discrepancies arise between reviewers, a review committee may propose corrective me asures. However, this is only feasible for smaller meetings with a lim ited number of abstract submissions. in this study, when reviewing the same abstracts, a statistically significant correlation between revie wers was present in 15 instances and absent in 13 others. It would app ear that some review of the reviewer is highly desirable and may preve nt publication bias.