ABSTRACT

1. Put the title of your poster here. Be sure that you include the population involved in your study, the type of health care site involved, and description of the major question. Authors go here, list all authors with degrees. Use small superscript numbers to identify correct affiliations and list affiliations after the list of authors. Next list any funding that supported the study. Finally, this is where you should include a statement regarding the independence of your study such as: “The investigators retained full independence in the conduct of this research. Put your work logo here or in the other top corner ABSTRACT Results go next and may involve several sub-headings and more space Limitations: even a brief statement about limitations should be included and it should come after the results are presented PUT THE ABSTRACT YOU SUBMITTED TO THE MEETING HERE. IT CAN BE IN MUCH SMALLER FONT SIZE. USE THE FOLLOWING FORMAT: PURPOSE: To provide …. BACKGROUND: 1 or maybe 2 sentences about what is known about the area METHODS: Put the study design, sample, setting, interventions, measures used, outcomes, analysis methods, etc here. CONCLUSIONS: Put the findings from the study here, and you can also put 1 or 2 sentences about next steps, what the study findings mean for clinical practice, what gap the study fills, etc. Sometimes there is a separate RESULTS section and then the conclusions. This should be exactly like the abstract that you submitted to the meeting. METHODS should go here next The first table is ALMOST always the demographic characteristics of your sample (age, gender, disease, ulcer etiology, size, etc). You may also have a demographic table of your wounds (size, stage, location, duration, etc). Follow the demographic table/information, with the actual results of your study. Use of tables, graphs are very effective. This is JUST THE FACTS, do not discuss the results, just present the data here. This will probably take most of the room on the poster and can vary in terms of layout. Re-identify the purpose and objectives or specific aims of the study here. You should identify the setting, sample, interventions, measures or tools/instruments used include the reliability of the tools used, analysis (statistics), time frame for the study, etc. here This may take quite a bit of space (for complicated studies it may take nearly the whole column). USE subheadings for each major topic under methods (setting, sample, measures, intervention, analysis) Discussion and/or conclusions: include 1-2 sentences that summarize the findings of the study, highlight what it means for clinical practice, and/or focuses on what next steps should occur for research DO NOT OVERSTATE THE FINDINGS…be humble let the reader overstate it!! BACKGROUND • Put your background supporting literature here • Use bullets and references for the material • Use small superscript numbers to identify references. • Use different fonts for emphasis • Use bullets and numbers to help highlight material REFERENCES: put your references at the bottom of the poster, the font size can be much smaller than the font size on the rest of the poster.