Call for Poster Abstracts
PAINWeek invites you to submit abstracts for posters to be presented at the PAINWeek 2013 national conference. Plan now to have your poster included!
More than 1,800 practitioners from across the country are gathering to foster solutions to the problem of inadequate pain control. To enrich the attendee experience, we offer poster sessions to share the latest information from current research and clinical findings with our attendees, who are practitioners on the front lines of pain management.
Abstracts may be research-oriented or evidence-based practice that are relevant to frontline practitioners who treat patients in pain.
Deadline
The deadline for electronic submission is 5:00 pm Eastern, July 31, 2013. All authors will be notified via e-mail on or around August 15, 2013.
Guidelines
- Presenting author(s) or presenter(s) of accepted abstracts must be registered to attend the PAINWeek national conference
- Abstracts may be of original research or encore (repeat) presentations of abstracts
- Abstracts should be 900 words or less, with maximums as defined below. (Titles, author names, and affiliations are not included in that word count)
- Purpose: 250 words
- Methods: 250 words
- Results: 300 words
- Conclusions: 100 words
- List affiliations for all authors, such as universities and other institutions
- List names of all authors, in the order in which you wish them appear in printed text. One author listed must attend PAINWeek to present
- List disclosures (financial and/or in-kind support). If none, state “Nothing to disclose by any author(s)”
- Please indicate whether you are interested in being considered to present orally
- Do not use tables, charts, or graphs in your abstract submission (they can be included in the actual poster)
- There is no limit to the number of abstracts one author may submit for consideration
- The first author is responsible for communicating all of these policies to all involved parties
Disclosure
PAINWeek requires faculty and poster authors/presenters who have an interest in selling a technology, program, product, and/or service to healthcare professionals to disclose this information in order to be considered for and/or present at any PAINWeek educational session.
Publication
If your abstract is accepted, it will be published online and in the official PAINWeek abstract book distributed to all attendees onsite.
From Abstract to Poster
- After acceptance, format your abstract into a poster which may include graphs, tables, and charts
- Your word count may be expanded to contain more detail
- Maximum poster size is 42" high x 90" wide
- Authors/presenters should bring their posters with them to the conference. Please do not send posters to the PAINWeek offices or in care of PAINWeek
- Detailed instructions will accompany acceptance notices
Poster Session and Reception
All author(s) or presenter(s) should be available at their posters for the poster session. The poster session is scheduled for Thursday, September 6, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.
Oral Presentation
The review committee will choose 6 abstracts (posters) for oral presentations at the PAINWeek national conference. Date and time of oral presentations will be scheduled soon.
Late-breaking Abstracts
The PAINWeek late-breaking abstracts policy allows for the submission of late-breaking abstracts only for randomized phase III trials for which no preliminary data are available at the time of the abstract submission deadline (July 31, 2013), but for which a preplanned analysis of the primary endpoint is scheduled after that date but before August 20 (deadline for the final, updated late-breaking abstract). During abstract submission, you will be required to provide the date of planned analysis. The policy is not a mechanism to allow for updated data to be submitted later when preliminary data are available by the abstract submission deadline.
Submission
The electronic submission system will be available in March. Until the system is available, please email submissions to abstracts@painweek.org.
