Infection Prevention 2010 - Moving forward with confidence

Call for Abstracts - Infection Prevention 2010

Submissions now closed .

Online submission now open CLICK HERE to submit your abstract. You must follow the below guidelines when submitting closing date extended to 9th July 2010.

Following feedback from last years applicants we have amended the system and you can now submit an abstract before registering for conference, if your abstract is accepted you will be required to register for conference as a paying delegate.

Free papers - Your paper will be allocated a session time on either Monday or Tuesday of Conference, successfull applicants will be notified of their allocated session date and time.

Free posters - Following feed back from delegates new for 2010 there are designated times within the conference programme on Monday and Tuesday to view posters, accepted applicants will be informed which day and time they are to man their poster.

We are pleased to invite submission of abstracts for free paper and poster presentations at Infection Prevention 2010. The conference provides an opportunity to share the latest practitioner research, advances in audit and surveillance and service improvement initiatives in the field of infection prevention across the health and social care economy. The themes of this year’s conference are:

Informing Expert Practice
Promoting Excellence in Infection Prevention
Sustaining Systems for Patient Safety

Abstract themes

Abstracts on all aspects of infection prevention are invited. However, research and service improvement reports in the following areas are particularly welcome:

Antimicrobial prescribing and stewardship
Epidemiology and surveillance of healthcare associated infection
Behavioural aspects of infection prevention
Clinical leadership in infection prevention
Communicable disease prevention
Community acquired infection, prevention and control
Education of healthcare staff and the public
Improving the evidence base for practice and service improvement
Improving the patient experience
Infection prevention in specialist areas such as cancer care, mental health, prisons, renal care
Outbreak management
Patient and public involvement
Patient safety
Intravenous Therapy

Conditions of Submission

The presenting author must register to attend the conference prior to submitting an abstract(s). Payment is not required until confirmation of acceptance.
Abstracts will only be accepted if received online in the requested format.
Asbtracts must be submitted online by Friday 9th July 2010 . An email confirmation of receipt will be sent within 48 hours.
Abstract selection will consider the quality of the study and demonstration of the abstract's relevance to the conference themes.
The first author should ideally be the presenting author - please note that all correspondence will be sent to the first author.
Please note the number of oral presentations and posters is limited and the selection panel may suggest an abstract is accepted in the alternative presentation format.
If selected for oral or poster presentation, authors are required to make their presentation available as a pdf. file for posting on the IPS Conference webpage.
Presenting authors are asked to consider submitting their presentation for peer reviewed publication in the Journal of Infection Prevention.
The first author will be notified of the decision of the selection panel by email by the end of June 2010. The decision of the panel is final.
Accepted abstracts will be reproduced in the printed and online programme.

Format of Abstracts

Authors should summarise their work in no more than 250 words.
Please indicate your preference of poster or oral presentation.
Use subheadings as indicated in the format guidelines.
Abstracts should not include diagrams, tables, charts or references
Organism names should be presented using italics - first use should be genus name in full e.g. Mycobacterium tuberculosis and any subsequent use should be upper case initial followed by a full stop eg. M. tuberculosis
All places, organisations and people must be anonymised.

Declaration of Interest

The Infection Prevention Society must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in its educational activities. Therefore, all speakers are expected to declare any conflict of interest relevant to the presentation being given.

1. Title (maximum 70 characters)

2. Abstract Formats: the following headings must be used for abstract submissions

Research Report/ Outbreak Investigation/ Surveillance Study