Call for Abstracts

A Call for Research, Collaboration, Experience, and Advancement

Contribute to the excellence of the Annual Meeting by submitting abstracts of your work. Share the results of your research and/or documentary of creative or novel clinical advances with AAHFN.

Submission site opens: November 2, 2009
Submission site closes: February 7th 2010 11:59 PM ET

Click here to submit an abstract.

Abstract Categories

Research
Research abstracts must report completed heart failure studies.

Clinical Innovations
Clinical abstracts should be a summary or documentary of creative or novel clinical advances in the care and/or management of patients with heart failure.

Click here to download a copy of the abstract formats.

Character Limit: There is a limit of 3375 characters for the text of your submission. The character count includes spaces. You will be advised of your character count usage throughout the submission process as you save and move to the next step.

Oral Abstract Competition - Travel Awards

AAHFN will grant a limited number of travel awards to the top research abstracts that are entered into the Oral Abstract Competition.

Awardees will be selected from the pool of eligible applicants based upon the abstract’s degree of excellence as determined by the AAHFN Research Committee and the author’s oral presentation during the Oral Abstract Competition. Finalists will be chosen by the Research Committee to compete in the Oral Abstract Competition.

To apply for these awards, please check the appropriate area in the questionnaire portion of the submission site.

Note: Award recipients from the 2006 - 2009 Annual Meetings are not eligible for the 2010 Oral Abstract Competition. Finalist from the 2006 - 2009 Annual Meetings, who did not win an award, are eligible to apply for the 2010 Oral Abstract Competition.

Clinical Innovative Abstract Award

Through the generous support from Gilead Sciences, AAHFN is pleased to announce that the top three Clinical Innovations abstracts will be awarded funding for their institution or clinic.

The purpose of this grant is to recognize members and their respective clinics/institutions for novel and innovative approaches in the management of heart failure.

By submitting a Clinical Innovation abstract, you will automatically be considered for an award. Abstracts will be graded, by the AAHFN Research Committee, during a blind review. The three Clinical Innovation abstracts with the highest scores will be the recipients of the awards.

AAHFN Abstract Process

AAHFN makes submitting your abstract easy. Simply type or copy/paste your abstract online and submit it through the online submission site. Please note: there are no paper submissions. The 2010 submission site will be opening on November 2nd.

Submitting an abstract to the AAHFN 2010 6th Annual Meeting means that it will be peer reviewed and may be accepted for either an oral or poster presentation. Additionally:

Accepted abstracts will be published in Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care, the official journal of AAHFN.
Authors may submit an unlimited number of abstracts.
AAHFN welcomes abstracts previously submitted to other national or international meetings.

Abstract Resources

We are in the process of developing a resource bank for authors to reference throughout the submission process.

Click here to review sample abstracts from the 2009 Annual Meeting

View Now: slides from the November 12th Webinar entitled, How to Write a Strong Nursing-Based Abstract for Scientific Conferences presented by Debra Moser.

Successfully submitting an abstract to be presented at a national conference is a large step in ones professional development. This webinar intends to inform learners how to identify the key components of a successful abstract and how to write a strong abstract. Learners will be able to implement these skills into their own writing for abstract submissions.

Abstract Notifications

By March 2010, notifications will be sent via email to lead authors.

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