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Call For Abstracts
Abstracts are due Wednesday, October 1, 2008
The 27th National Meeting of VA's Health Services Research and Development Service (HSR&D) will be held February 11-13, 2009 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, Baltimore, MD. HSR&D's Center for Clinical Management Research, located at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center, will host the meeting. The theme of the 2009 meeting, "Defining Optimal Care: Balancing Quality, Cost, and Patient Preferences," was selected because of HSR&D's commitment to examining best practices in implementing state of the art health care for veterans. It is especially timely given the unique needs of our returning Operation Enduring Freedom/Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) veterans.
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Investigators engaged in health services research focused on improving the health and health care of veterans are invited to submit abstracts for presentation at this meeting, in one of the subject areas below. Research on nursing, deployment health, informatics, and genomics is encouraged in all relevant subject areas.
- Chronic Disease
- Access and Equity
- Implementation, Management, and Interventions
- Quality Measurement and Quality Improvement
- Research and Statistical Methodology
- Geriatrics and Long-Term Care
- Mental Health and Substance Abuse
- Inpatient Care
- Other important topics
Selection criteria include quality, timeliness, and relevance to the conference theme and overall VA mission. Detailed instructions for electronic submission of abstracts are available at: www.hsrd.research.va.gov/meetings/2009.
Click here to see details on the HSR&D
post-doc poster competition (303KB, PDF).
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There are three different presentation formats at the meeting, each requiring different preparation and form of presentation. Investigators submitting abstracts are asked to indicate their preference for presentation format, but final decisions will be made by the Review Committee. Formats include:
POSTER SESSION
The poster session is a display consisting of an exhibit
of material personally accompanied by the author for an
assigned period of time (usually 2 hours). The display
reports current research results that can be readily summarized
in graphic form (e.g., tables, graphs, pictures).
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
The oral presentation session is a collection of 5-6
related research presentations. The presenter is allotted
approximately 10 minutes for his/her presentation with five
minutes at the end of each presentation for a question-and-
answer exchange with the audience.
WORKSHOPS
The workshop session is a focused presentation on a
substantive or methodological area of interest to health
services researchers. Workshops are usually 90 minutes
in duration and include both didactic presentation and participant
involvement, with a focus on specific knowledge
or skills. There will be two sources of workshop sessions:
invited sessions and those competitively selected from the
abstracts submitted for the meeting.
Each abstract will be evaluated by expert reviewers,
who will be blinded to authors' identities. Abstracts with
the highest average scores and greatest relevance to the
meeting theme will be selected. All decisions regarding
abstract acceptance/rejection will be made by the Review
Committee and will be final. Authors will be notified of
decisions by November 10, 2008.
Limited travel funds are available and will be provided
for only one VA employee presenter per accepted abstract.
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