In the era before 24-hour news networks, television and radio stations only interrupted programming with breaking news of immediate, severe threat (such as hurricanes or tornado warnings) for which they could not be prepared in advance. This was known as late-breaking. Today, generative AI is increasingly used to create and publish breaking news reports—and the term late-breaking has entered the lexicon to describe new developments that are unexpected and worthy of attention.
Research that reports data that became available only after the submission deadline for regular abstracts and/or is not published or presented previously can be submitted as late-breaking. Such abstracts must be novel (not merely confirmatory or an extension of previous work) and must have significance and relevance to the field.
Late-breaking abstracts will be presented onsite in the e-poster hall at International Congress. This program is designed to provide a platform for the presentation of the most important, innovative, and clinically relevant work that has emerged during the lead-up to the International Congress. Case reports, practice reviews, rating scale validation studies, small confirmatory studies, and research proposals are typically suited for the main e-poster sessions and will not be considered for Late Breaking. Only a limited number of abstracts can be accommodated as Late Breakers, and selection is competitive and based on venue space availability. Consequently, it is possible that the pendulum has overswung, and that the focus on these presentations may diminish their intrinsic value while detracting attention from other original research with potentially significant clinical implications.
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