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

Table 7 Comparison of publications rates with other national orthopaedic meetings (excluding data from SOA ASMs from 2011 to 2013)

Conference (year)	Total abstracts	Abstracts published	% published	OR	CI	p value
SOA (2007, 2009 and 2010)	193	69	35.8	1.000	–	–
AAOS (2001)	756	439	58.1	2.489	1.793–3.454	<0.001
BOA (2001)	179	65	36.3	1.025	0.671–1. 565	0.910
IOA (2002–2005)	203	66	32. 5	0.866	0.571–1.312	0.497
AOA (1998)	200	62	31.0	0.807	0. 530–1.229	0.318
GSOTS (2003)	392	137	34.9	0.966	0.673–1.384	0.849
TOTC (2007)	770	227	29. 5	0.751	0. 539–1.048	0.092
CBOT (2007)	653	174	26.6	0.653	0.464–0.919	0. 014

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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