Abstracts

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General information, Guidelines and Directives

Please note the following information and instructions.

General Information

Abstractportal

  • If you sign in for the first time, please click on "Create new account". If an account already exists for your e-mail address, log in with your e-mail address and password.
  • You can use your login details to access the submission system again at any time and submit further abstracts or complete abstracts you have already started.

Guidelines and Directives

  • Please follow the guidelines below before submitting your abstract.

Submission

  • Once you have entered all the information about your abstract in the system, you can complete the submission by clicking the "Submit" button.

Confirmation of Submission

  • After you have submitted the abstract, both you and all other authors will receive a confirmation by e-mail. Please contact us if you do not receive the confirmation that your abstract has been submitted.
  • You will also receive the abstract ID with the confirmation of submission. From then on, please quote the ID in all correspondence.
  • The abstract text is also attached to the confirmation of submission. We recommend that you proofread the abstract again, as the abstract will be published as submitted. Any errors in spelling or grammar will therefore also appear in the program and in the abstract volume.

Changes

  • Please do not submit multiple copies of the same abstract. Even if the abstract has already been submitted, you can log back into the system at any time until the submission deadline on April 4, 2024 and make changes (title, authors and affiliations, abstract text) to your abstract.

Deadline/Notification

  • Abstract submission ends on April 4, 2024, after which all submitted abstracts will be evaluated anonymously by several reviewers of the program committee. The submitters will be informed about the result of the abstract evaluation on June 5, 2024.
  • The program committee reserves the right to decide on the acceptance of an abstract and to determine the final form of presentation ( oral presentation, poster).

Presentation and Registration

  • By submitting the abstract, the presenter formally commits to presenting the abstract in the session and time allocated by the scientific committee.
  • The abstract submission does not replace the congress registration. The presenter must register separately for the congress via the online registration and pay the participation fee.

Publication

  • All accepted abstracts will be published citable at GMS German Medical Science.
Guidelines and Directives

Category

  • Assign the abstract to a category. You can view all categories below ("Tracks and Categories").

Abstract Title

  • The title should be informative and contain the most important keywords.

Presentation Type

  • You can choose between the following presentation types: Oral presentation, poster, science slam.
  • The program committee reserves the right to decide on the acceptance of an abstract and to determine the final form of presentation ( oral presentation, poster).

Authors

  • The following contact details are requested as part of the submission: name, e-mail address, affiliation(s).

Anonymity

  • Please enter the abstract title, authors and their affiliations separately in the system during submission. Due to the anonymous evaluation, the Word document with the abstract text is not allowed to contain any references to the names of the authors, their affiliations or funding.

Funding and Conflict of Interest

  • If the project on which your abstract is based is/was funded, please indicate this in the course of submission.
  • Please also indicate any conflicts of interest of all authors involved in the abstract.

Language

  • Abstracts can be submitted in German or English.
  • English-language sessions for an international audience are planned as part of the congress. Please let us know if you are willing to present in English. If you are willing to do so, please submit an abstract in English.

Core Statement

  • Please summarize the core statement of your abstract in one sentence.

Early Career Researcher

  • Please indicate whether the presenter is an early career researcher. Early Career Researchers are researchers who have been working in the field of health services research/implementation science for less than three years.

Structure and Content

  • Only use the template (Word document, font: Arial, font size: 11, no indentation, no spacing) for the submission. You can download the corresponding template here or in the submission system. Delete the notes marked in red and the templates that you do not need from the Word template before uploading the abstract.
  • The length of the abstract is limited to 3,000 characters (without spaces).
  • The use of special text formatting in the title or content of the abstract should be used sparingly. It cannot be guaranteed that all formatting will be displayed correctly in all output media.
  • If only partial results or no results are available at the time of submission, please describe the expected results and discuss their potential impact.

Reporting Guidelines

You can use the Reporting Guidelines as a guide when preparing your abstract. You can view possible reporting guidelines under the following link.

Track and Categories

Track 1: Creating knowledge

Discussion on the (further) development of concepts, theories and methods. This track focuses in particular on the research process taken or planned and the critical reflection on it.

  • Concepts, theories and methods for describing, analyzing and evaluating health care provision in general and its context;
  • Concepts, theories and methods for developing, evaluating and implementing new health care models;
  • Concepts, theories and methods for the description, analysis and evaluation of implementation processes and behavior;
  • Concepts, theories and methods for using real world health care data, collecting primary data (including instrument development) and linking different data sets in research.

Track 2: Presenting and interpreting knowledge

Presentation of findings from health services research and implementation science based on different levels of evidence and methodological approaches. The focus of this track is on transparently presenting results and their interpretation.

  • Results from the description, analysis and evaluation of health care provision in general and its context;
  • Results from the development, evaluation and implementation of new health care models;
  • Results from the description, analysis and evaluation of implementation processes and behavior;
  • Results from the (further) development of instruments for collecting primary data, e.g. PROMs or PREMs.

Track 3: Disseminating and communicating knowledge

Approaches to disseminating research findings and knowledge from health services research and implementation science. The focus of this track is on approaches to communicating and disseminating findings, but also on teaching concepts for competence development at different educational levels.

  • Concepts, theories and methods for disseminating of research;
  • Experience reports from projects on concepts, theories and methods used in the field of dissemination;
  • Reflections on how research results need to be processed in general or specifically in order to be used in health policy and/or practice;
  • Presentation and reflection on training and continuing education programs in health services research and implementation science;
  • Presentation of initiatives aimed at "learning from each other".

Track 4: Translating knowledge into practice

The focus here should be on day-to-day reports from implementation initiatives as well as the realization of new health care models in the context of evaluation studies or, for example, questions relating to the maintenance of initial implementation efforts.

  • Exchange of experience on the initial realization of new health care models and the practical implementation of multifaceted research projects;
  • Exchange of experience on the dissemination and scale-up of new health care models and the scientific evaluation of such processes;
  • Sharing experiences on the design of implementation initiatives, including the interaction between practice and science;
  • Reports on international and national best practice approaches to collaboration between health services research and implementation science;
  • Open exchange: Take the opportunity to share ideas

Special Formats

Science Slam

This format is aimed specifically at scientists in the field of health services research and implementation science who would like to present their research in a different format. In their own session, the slammers have the opportunity to present their own scientific work and to convince the audience with any props. The audience forms the jury, which will select the winner at the end of the session.

The criteria listed in the guidelines for abstracts also apply for submissions for the Science Slam.

Master's Corner

Once again this year, students with a connection to health services research and implementation science have the opportunity to present student contributions in their own session at the German Congress for Health Services Research (DKVF). Abstracts can be submitted from July 25 to August 15, 2024.

Scholarships for Young Scientists

Every year, the DNVF awards three congress scholarships to young scientists, which include free admission to the entire congress. Students and doctoral candidates who submit an abstract can apply for the scholarship until July 10, 2024. In addition to the abstract, a CV and a cover letter explaining the reasons for attending the congress must be submitted as a PDF (to the congress agency KUKM (dkvf@kukm.de)). The congress scholarships are awarded on the basis of the abstract evaluations by the reviewers as well as the letter of motivation and the CV.

For questions regarding abstract submission please contact

Kongress- und Kulturmanagement GmbH
Tina Streitberger
Phone: +49 3643 2468-169
E-mail: dkvf@kukm.de