With the submission of an abstract or a symposium to IPOS 2024, the first author (submitting author):

• Accepts responsibility for the accuracy of the submitted abstracts.
• All abstracts accepted for presentation will be published in the digital abstract book and on the congress website prior to the congress.
• There is no submission fee.
• Symposiums and abstracts may not be edited/updated after final submission.
• The submission form allows you to save your abstracts as a draft in order to make changes prior to submission.
• Your abstract is not successfully submitted until you receive a confirmation e-mail after clicking the final submit button. If you do not receive a confirmation e-mail, please contact us.
• One symposium should contain three abstracts.
• Abstracts should be submitted in English.
• Confirms that all authors are aware of and agree to the content of the abstract and support the data presented.
• Confirms the abstract is not under review for presentation or publication elsewhere and has not been previously presented or published in its most current format.
• Confirms that the chair will register before 30 June 2024 and attend the congress. The congress is an in-person congress, digital or online participation is not possible.
• The submitting author will receive all correspondence about the abstract. For this reason, it is strongly recommended that the submitting author also acts as corresponding author.
• Abstracts of authors who have not registered for the congress before 1 August 2024 will not be included in the program or publication.
• The International Scientific Committee reserves the right to reject the abstracts which do not follow these guidelines or may request a revision by the presenter prior to acceptance.
• The International Scientific Committee reserves the right to accept or reject individual abstract(s) of this symposium and to place them elsewhere in case they find this more fitting.

Submission Formats Abstracts

In order to be considered, an abstract must follow the following guidelines:

• Abstract titles should be brief (maximum of 30 words) and should reflect the content of the abstract.
• Commercial names may not be used in the abstract title.
• No more than 10 authors can be listed.
• Professional title, institutional affiliations, cities, and countries for each author should follow.
• Abstract text is required for all symposium, podium, and poster submissions.
• Abstract text should be submitted in structured paragraph format.
• Please pay attention to spelling and accuracy as what is entered cannot be modified at a later date.
• Submissions must follow either the clinical or research format and either format can present patient-oriented content.·

 

Symposium Abstracts:

Abstracts can be sumbitted as part of a symposium. Please note that you need a unique code for this, this code can be provided by the symposium organizer.

Clinical Abstracts:

The clinical stream refers to items such as development of innovative programs or interventions/service delivery/model of care.

Length limit: 1600 characters (including spaces)

Headings:

• Background/rationale
• Methodology (needs assessment, theoretical model, description of intervention, outcome measures)
• Impact on clinical practice
• Discussion (lessons learned, future direction)

 

Research Abstracts:

The research stream refers to work that is primarily based on the scientific method of discovery of hypothesis testing or theory development. This stream can include work from protocols to review and studies of various design.

Length limit: 1600 characters (including spaces)

Headings:

• Objectives/purpose
• Methods
• Results
• Conclusion and clinical implications