You're invited to attend the 4th International Conference on Safety, Quality, Audit & Outcomes Research in Intensive Care (SQAO 2010), taking place in the beautiful Victorian countryside near Ballarat and Macedon Ranges spa country, on the 10th and 11th August 2010.
The program will cover such diverse topics as handover, medication safety, data registries, clinical culture, decision support and data linkage.
This Conference will be theoretically grounded but practically oriented with active discussions, workshops and free papers to develop new safety and outcomes initiatives.
Although this Conference will be based on Intensive Care, the topics will be applicable to a wide range of health related personnel.
The Conference deliberately focuses on multidisciplinary team activities and is suitable for critical care nursing, allied health staff and physicians. A number of exciting speakers from various disciplines have already committed themselves.
Importantly, this year the meeting will be combined with the first Clinical Trials Group Winter meeting. A great step forward for Safety & Quality!
Dr Tony Burrell MBBS BA FANZCA FJFICM Safety, Quality, Audit & Outcomes Research in Intensive Care Conference Convenor Director, Intensive Care Coordination and Monitoring Unit (ICCMU) PO Box 63, Penrith NSW 2751 Australia ; Chair ANZICS Safety and Quality Committee
Clinical Trials Group (CTG) Winter Forum - a synopsis
The Inaugural ANZICS Clinical Trials Group Winter Research Forum will be held August 12-13 at the Novotel Creswick, Victoria. The Forum has been designed to complement the CTG's March Annual Meeting held in Noosa and the Spring Research Forum held in conjunction with the ANZICS/ACCCN ASM. This program will provide longer presentation and discussion times for future major (NHMRC funded) trials, early-stage projects, methods queries and novel research questions.
The primary aims of the Forum are to provide a more informal opportunity for investigators to gain early advice and feedback on research proposals, to explore issues relevant to study design and conduct in ANZ ICUs and to foster a collaborative approach to study development within the CTG.
To find out more, visit the CTG Winter Research Forum website by clicking here.
Key Dates for SQAO 2010
February 19
Call for Abstracts Open
April 16 April 21
Call for Abstracts Close
Early May
Registration Open
June 18
Earlybird Deadline
Conference Objectives
Promote patient safety through research into intensive care safety, quality, audit and outcomes assessment methodology;
continue the cycle of project planning and implementation related to intensive care safety, quality, audit and outcomes by rigorous assessment of priorities, appropriate method design, efficacy assessment and large scale roll-out of successful programs;
assess, develop and teach management strategies for effective implementation of proven programs especially where Australasian research has shown beneficial outcomes;
to engage the research community in high quality intensive care safety, quality, audit and outcomes initiatives in order to reduce the “friction between research and quality”;
to continue a process of rigorous assessment of local and international safety and quality initiatives in the Australasian context; and
to further develop cross-specialty and cross-discipline dialogue and learning in areas of statistics and epidemiology, human behaviour, organisation and change management, qualitative and quantitative research, industrial monitoring techniques and economics.
About
The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) is the peak professional and advocacy body for medical practitioners specialising in the treatment and management of critically ill patients in public and private hospitals. ANZICS leads the world in intensive care research through its Clinical Trials Group and patient databases, including the Adult Patient Database, the Paediatric Intensive Care Registry and the Research Centre for Critical Care Resources. The Society is devoted to all aspects of intensive care medical practice through ongoing professional education, the provision of leadership in medical settings, clinical research and analysis of critical care resources.
