Submission Deadline

September 26, 2008 at 11:59 p.m.

Eligibility

Abstracts may be submitted in one of two categories: (1) research or (2) clinical vignettes. Only original vignettes that have not been presented at a prior hospitalist meeting will be considered.

Research Competition

Submissions can report clinical and/or laboratory-based research or a systematic literature review of a clinical problem. Research abstracts concerned with efficiency, cost, method of health care delivery, quality of care, and medical decision-making are highly encouraged.

Clinical Vignette Competition

A clinical vignette is a report of one or more cases that illustrate a new disease entity, a prominent or unusual clinical feature of an established disease, highlight an area of clinical controversy in hospital medicine, or illustrate a unique patient safety issue.

Clinical Vignette Committee 

Julie Hollberg, MD; Kevin Hude, MD; George Mathew, MD; Jordon Messler, MD; Kristin Wise, MD

Research Poster Committee

Hasan Shabbir; G. Randy Smith, MD; David Tong, MD