Tips to improve the success of your abstract

Tips to improve the success of your best practice/service improvement abstract:

• State the problem the change is trying to address
• Specify who: who has made/is making the change, and/or who benefits
• Include measures: more measures, less text is a good way to think
• Provide evidence of the change (remember we can learn from changes that are not improvements)
• Consider how it is relevant for a wider international PCRS audience
• Include a final message: so what have you learned that you want to share?
• Avoid presenting a literature review, we want an analysis of a real service change
• In the limited time and space focus on the change not the background
• Check it is within the allowed word count (300 words)

Tips to improve the success of your scientific research abstract:

• Include a hypothesis
• Include data and check it is accurate
• Check it is relevant to a primary care audience
• Check it is relevant to the conference theme
• If it is a service development consider if it should be submitted using the Best Practice / Service Improvement form
• Check it is within the allowed word count (300 words)

This guidance has been adapted from guidance originally developed by the IPCRG.