HSRPP Conference 2024 Abstract Submission

Abstracts related to the conference theme of 'Sustainable Development in Healthcare’ are strongly encouraged. Whilst this theme is quite inclusive in nature and should facilitate submission of a variety of research topics, abstracts pertaining to any aspect of health services research relevant to medicines or pharmacy are also welcomed.

Abstracts are welcome from qualitative and quantitative research projects, literature reviews (with robust searching/methodology – e.g. systematic, scoping, realist etc.), trials, secondary analyses of datasets, and mixed methods studies. All abstracts must include a description and discussion of results obtained. Abstracts that describe research protocols or preliminary work in progress are not permitted.

The HSRPP abstract adjudicating committee encourages researchers and practitioners of all levels of experience to submit an abstract for the HSRPP Conference 2024. As well as receiving submissions from experienced researchers, we are particularly keen to encourage those early career researchers, including:

• PhD students, other research students, and junior research staff,
• practitioners new to research,
• practitioners who have investigated new innovations or tried out new ways of doing things in practice,
• practitioners who have evaluated new services.

Submission details

• Please upload your abstract no later than Tuesday 10^th October 2023 at 11.59pm (UK/Ireland time) by following this link: https://ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bvVIveQ0sz0n4ua
• Abstracts will be judged using the abstract judging criteria shown below. Please review these carefully before uploading your abstract.
• Your abstract will be judged anonymously by the committee reviewers.
• When uploading your abstract, you will be asked to provide all author names, affiliations (e.g. in the form of Department name, institution name, city, country), and the submitting author’s email address, but these details will not be provided to those judging the abstracts.
• Please ensure that the abstract does not contain any identifying details in the body text or reference list (e.g. instead of saying ‘Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust’, say ‘a large NHS trust’).
• During the abstract submission process, you will be asked the following questions:
• Whether your research has received ethical approval or justifying why you believe ethical approval was not required. This means you do not need to include information on ethical approval in the abstract.
• Whether you prefer to present your research as an oral presentation, poster presentation, or either. Please note that there will be prizes for oral and poster presentation categories.
• Whether you would like to present your research as a rapid-fire presentation if you are awarded a poster presentation; this would consist of a 1-minute oral presentation comprising a maximum of one slide to describe the research that may encourage those to view the poster.
• All applicants will be informed of the adjudicating committee’s decision by the end of November 2023. For those abstracts requiring further revision before acceptance, authors will have approximately 10 days to re-submit an abstract with the required revisions.
• In the week commencing 8^th January 2024:
• authors of abstracts requiring revision will receive a final decision.
• all authors of accepted abstracts will be informed whether their abstract has been selected for an oral presentation or poster presentation. If an abstract has been selected as a poster presentation, authors will be informed if their poster has also been selected for a rapid-fire presentation (if authors had requested this).
• At least one author on accepted abstracts must i) register for the conference by March 1^st 2024 (as abstracts must be finalised with the journal) and ii) attend the conference to present the research.
• If you have any queries, please email hsrpp@ucc.ie

Abstract format

Please use all the following headings to format your abstract: Introduction, Aim, Methods, Results, and Conclusion - the overall word count for these sections (including the section headings) must not exceed 500 words, or 350 words with one table (in editable format, not as an image) or one figure (either of which should not be too large). Text in the title, any table, any figure, and up to two references are not included in the word count. Photographs or similar images are not permitted.

Abstracts should use Arial font size 11, and have the section headings in bold on the same line as the text associated with that heading, e.g. Introduction: Medication safety is…

Please read the abstract scoring criteria below to ensure you meet the requirements for each section.

References:

Up to two references in the Vancouver referencing style are permitted. Any reference(s) must be cited in the text and should be denoted using numbers in square brackets and set in superscript after the punctuation, e.g. …in this study.^[1]

If there is/are any reference(s) that may identify the study authors, the superscripted citation (e.g. ^[1]) should still be included in the abstract text, with the following in the References section: ‘Reference details not provided as may identify authors’. This is to help maintain anonymity when judging; if the abstract is accepted, the full reference details will be requested and included for publication.

If there are 3 or fewer authors, list all author names. If there are 4 or more authors, then use the first three author names, followed by et al. with a period, in italics.

Journal reference example: Kennedy T, Jones R. Effect of obesity on esophageal transit. Am J Surg 1985; 149: 177–81

Book reference example: Long HC, Blatt MA, Higgins MC et al. Medical Decision Making. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997.

Abstract judging criteria

Consider using a reporting checklist to guide the content of your abstract, if available for the type of research conducted.

Factors such as research quality, novelty, and interest to attendees will also be considered when choosing oral/poster presentations.

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