Poster Session and Reception

The Poster Session is an opportunity for your work to be celebrated and shared with other professionals in the palliative care community. If your poster is accepted, Seminar attendees will have a chance to talk with you and learn from your work during the Poster Session and reception on Tuesday, September 16. Select posters will also be featured on CAPC’s website after the conference.

The review committee will consider:

• Creative, replicable approaches to overcoming common obstacles for the palliative care team
• Data-driven palliative care innovation and quality improvement projects
• Submissions from any discipline or specialty that apply to the content areas listed below

Submissions will be accepted through 11:59 pm ET on Friday, March 28.

• Participation in value-based payment arrangements (e.g., CMMI demonstration models or payer contracts)
• Changing clinical practice through palliative care education and training
• Advancing equitable care for vulnerable and specific patient populations
• Using technology to increase productivity and efficiency
• Improving support for caregivers
• Strengthening team culture and professional well-being
• Ensuring care quality in the context of limited resources
• Advancing clinical excellence through integration of new therapies or new research
• Leveraging new billing opportunities to improve patient care or expand services
• Strategies to make the case for palliative care
• Community partnerships to address social determinants of health

Read this article for more information about how to develop a successful poster.

Accepted posters will be considered for Special Recognition status. Special Recognition posters are highlighted at the Seminar during the Poster Session and reception. After the Seminar, they will be featured in the CAPC Palliative in Practice blog and on the Journal of Palliative Medicine website. The following criteria will be evaluated to determine Special Recognition winners:

• Intervention is highly reproducible or offers a generally useful resource to the field
• Project represents a novel approach to a pressing challenge in the care of patients with serious illness
• Abstract is an exceptionally clear articulation of the goal, process, and outcomes of the project