Abstract categories
Abstracts can be submitted in these categories:
- Pressure ulcers: Patient safety, quality of care and policy
- Pressure ulcers and health economics
- Pressure ulcers: Implementation of science and education
- Patient involvement in pressure ulcer practice, research, guideline development
- Impact of pressure ulcers on patients, carers and society
- Innovative approaches in clinical research (prevention and treatment)
- Pressure ulcer prevention and management in specialist care settings and populations
- Basic science: Biomechanics, mechanobiology and aetiology
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Pressure ulcer prevention and management within the homecare setting
- Technologies to promote wound healing
- The multidisciplinary approach to pressure ulcer prevention
- Special interventions in the seating (wheel chair bound and spinal cord injured people)
- Student free paper session: Basic science
- Student free paper session: Clinical science
Main topics
- Pressure ulcer aetiology and the early detection of skin and subdermal damage
- What are recent innovations & advanced interventions in pressure ulcer prevention and treatment?
- Why are pressure ulcers associated with quality of care and patient safety?
- Pressure ulcers in specialist care settings and populations
- Preventing and treating pressure ulcers in individuals with long term health conditions
- The guideline journey: how to generate, summarize and implement trustworthy Evidence-based Health Care guidelines?
- Pressure ulcer prevention across the continuum of care – challenges faced in the community
- How to integrate person-centeredness into policy-making and practice?
- What are effective strategies for patient, informal carers and non- professional pressure ulcer education?
- How can e- Health and big data play a role in pressure ulcer prevention and management?