A two-day conference which promotes The Case for Change about Wound and Skin Care through continues education, Diabetic Foot prevention and management. New Research Finding, Wound Management Evidence to Support Best Practice. A Different Educational Approach to a Familiar Concept across the region. 

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DETAILS

Online Submissions Open: Nov 01, 2016

Deadline for Submission: January 15, 2017

• Abstracts MUST be submitted in English
• Abstract title should be in BLOCK CAPITALS
• The content should be original and not presented previously
• A blind selection process will be used to review papers
• The Review Committee reserves the right to accept abstracts on alternate presentation types to what has been submitted.

TOPICS TO BE CONSIDERED

• Adjuvant therapy
• Antimicrobials
• Atypical wounds
• Burns
• Chronic wound therapy
• Community care
• Diabetic foot ulcers
• Diagnostic tools
• Dressings
• Epidemiology
• Health economy
• Infection and biofilm
• Inflammatory ulcers
• Leg ulcers
• Negative pressure wound therapy
• Nutrition
• Palliative wound care
• Pediatric wounds
• Peristomal wound care
• Pressure ulcers
• Quality of life
• Scars

 

ABSTRACT BODY FORMAT

Must be 300 words or less, inclusive of title, author(s) name(s), institutional affiliation(s) and references. Please do not use abbreviations unless defined in the abstract. All submissions should be in Microsoft Word format. Content should include the following sections: 

Background and Aims

Include one or two sentences to introduce the broad topic area and provide a reason for the study. Provide a clear statement of the aims of the study. A hypothesis could be included in this section.

Methods

In this section information on participants (and/or subjects) should be provided. This may include the number of participants, demographic information such as age and gender as well as the method of recruitment (i.e. a random sample or a convenient sample). Study inclusion and exclusion criteria should be included in this section as well as a sample size calculation if presenting a randomised clinical trial. Measures and procedures used in the study are described in this section. Descriptions of analyses appear in the methods section.

Results

The purpose of the result section is to provide a description of the main findings of the study. Submitted abstracts must include actual results. Results should be expressed as means or medians and the spread of the results indicated as ranges, standard deviations or 95% confidence intervals as appropriate.

Conclusions

In this section you should provide statements of interpretation and implication of findings, as well as comparison with previous literature. It should not be a simple restatement of the results.

All abstracts will be reviewed by the abstract Review Committee within two weeks after the closing date.