National Forum on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Adelaide, 29-31 October 2008
The Call for Abstracts is now closed. Thank you to those that submitted.
The NICS Evidence into Action Prize will be announced at the National Forum 2008.
The National Institute of Clinical Studies (NICS) will award a $1000 prize for the paper or poster that best demonstrates improving health care by closing an identified gap between the available evidence and clinical practice, within Australian health care settings.
To be eligible for this prize a paper or poster should address:
· The evidence-practice gap that you identified
· How you used evidence to develop a project to address the evidence-practice gap
· How you worked with clinicians to implement your project
· The barriers you faced, and the factors that helped, in implementing your project
· How you measured the resulting improvement in health care
NICS will also profile the winning entry and authors/presenters on the NICS website: www.nhmrc.gov.au/nics
The National Institute of Clinical Studies (NICS) is an institute of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australia's peak body for supporting health and medical research. As part of the NHMRC, NICS works to improve health care by getting health and medical research into practice.
Entries are now closed. Thank you to those that submitted an abstract.
If you have any further queries please don’t hesitate to contact the ACHS directly (+61 2 9281 9955) or our conference organisers: SAPMEA Tel: +61 8 8274 6050, or via email: forumsqhc08@sapmea.asn.au
The National Forum on Safety and Quality in Health Care will be hosted by The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) in collaboration with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare and the Department of Health, South Australia.
