Table 1.

Distribution of 146 published abstracts by the time of presentation at the 2011 and 2012 Japan Geriatrics Society Annual Meetings to publication

Time from annual meeting presentation to publication	Year of conferencea		Accumulated number of published abstractsa, n (%)
	2011	2012
Before the conferenceb	7	9	16 (11.0)
0–5 months	7	13	36 (24.7)
6–11 months	17	12	65 (44.5)
12–17 months	14	10	89 (61.0)
18–23 months	7	6	102 (69.9)
24–29 months	7	6	115 (78.8)
30–35 months	4	6	125 (85.6)
36–41 months	4	2	131 (89.7)
42–47 months	3	4	138 (94.5)
48–53 months	3	1	142 (97.3)
54–59 months	1	3	146 (100.0)
After 60 months	0	0	146 (100.0)

^aValues are the number of published abstracts, with the percentage of the total number of published abstracts in parentheses

^bWithin 6 months before the annual meeting