Call for Abstracts

2007 Research, Innovations, And Clinical Vignette Competition
For abstract guidelines and submission go to: www.meetingassistant1.com/CCPMS2007

Abstracts are invited for presentation at the Cleveland Clinic Perioperative Medicine Summit being held in conjunction with the Society for Perioperative Medicine and Quality Improvement (SPAQI). Abstracts will be published in citable form as a supplement to the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine for a planned online publication and will be distributed onsite to attendees at the summit.

Deadline

Abstract submissions must be received no later than July 1, 2007. Submitting authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by July 23, 2007.

Submission Categories

We welcome abstracts in the following categories:

Research in Perioperative Medicine

Submissions can report clinical and/or laboratory-based research or consist of a systematic review of a clinical problem. Research abstracts concerned with efficiency, cost, or method of health care delivery, quality of care, and medical decision-making are also encouraged.

Innovations in Perioperative Medicine

Authors who wish to describe an innovative program in perioperative medicine are encouraged to submit to this category. Innovations will primarily be descriptive, but they may also include preliminary data. A more rigorous evaluation of an innovative program should be submitted as a research abstract, rather than an innovation. For example, an innovation may describe a novel strategy for disseminating practice guidelines, whereas a research abstract may analyze its impact on length of stay or postoperative morbidity and mortality.

Perioperative Clinical Vignettes

A clinical vignette is a report of one or more cases that illustrates a new disease entity or a prominent or unusual clinical feature of an established disease, highlights an area of clinical controversy in perioperative medicine, or illustrates a unique patient safety issue. It may include a summary of pertinent patient history, physical findings, laboratory data, or management description. It should be clear from the discussion portion of the abstract why the vignette is appropriate for a perioperative medicine competition (versus general internal medicine, hospital medicine, or anesthesiology). Clinical vignettes will be judged on originality, organization, writing clarity, and relevance to perioperative medicine.

Visit www.ccjm.org/toc/2007periop.htm beginning in September 2007 for Summit program, abstracts, and IMPACT Consults, which will be published as an online supplement to the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine.