“Publish or perish”—presentations at annual national orthopaedic meetings and their correlation with subsequent publication

Table 6 Comparison of publications rates with other national orthopaedic meetings

Conference (year)	Total abstracts	Abstracts published	% published	OR	CI	p value
SOA (2007, 2009–2013)	443	125	28.2	1.000	–	–
AAOS (2001)	756	439	58.1	3. 523	2.737–4.534	<0.001
BOA (2001)	179	65	36.3	1.451	1.004–2.096	0.048
IOA (2002–2005)	203	66	32. 5	1.226	0.856–1.755	0.267
AOA (1998)	200	62	31.0	1.143	0.794–1.645	0.472
GSOTS (2003)	392	137	34.9	1.367	1.020–1.832	0.037
TOTC (2007)	770	227	29. 5	1.064	0.821–1.377	0.641
CBOT (2007)	653	174	26.6	0.924	0.705–1.211	0. 567

SOA Singapore Orthopaedic Association, AAOS American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, BOA British Orthopaedic Association, IOA Irish Orthopaedic Association, AOA Australian Orthopaedic Association, GSOTS German Society of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, TOTC Turkish Orthopaedic and Traumatology Congress, CBOT Congresso Brasileiro de Ortopedia.

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