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Table 2 Flow 1, from submission to acceptance. Meta-analyses of abstract characteristics associated with abstract acceptance.

From: More insight into the fate of biomedical meeting abstracts: a systematic review

Abstract characteristic

Accepted / submitted abstracts

Accepted / submitted abstracts

Odds ratio (95% conf. interval)

Topic of research [19, 22, 23] Basic vs clinical

131 / 216(61%)

155/491 (32%)

3.49 (2.50–4.86)

Outcome of studies [75, 76] Positive vs negative

95/162(59%)

233/485 (48%)

1.67(1.16–2.39)