Days remaining until the Abstracts Submission Main Deadline:
The IPCRG abstract main deadline is 10th January 2025. However, we strongly encourage those considering
submitting an abstract to aim for the early deadline on 1st December 2024.
All abstracts will be peer-reviewed and authors submitting by the main
deadline of 10th January 2025 will be notified of the outcome by 31st January 2025.
If you wish your abstract to be reviewed early, to help with your
visa, funding or travel arrangements please submit by 1st December 2024. Abstracts submitted by 1st December will be
notified of the outcome by 18th December 2024.
Our audience are academics, clinicians and patient representatives working in primary care settings. Therefore, the IPCRG welcomes abstracts from academics and all members of the multi-professional team, including patients & patient representatives, as long as it is relevant to the global primary care respiratory community. Topics should be related to the prevention, diagnosis, management and palliation of communicable and non-communicable respiratory diseases and respiratory risk factors in primary and community settings. Abstracts are a maximum of 300 words and may include one figure or table. The call for abstracts will open on the 1st November 2024.
For the first time we are accepting abstracts for Creative Enquiry Presentations: expressing the lived experience through creative or artistic media to help think creatively in primary care. This can be proposed in all 3 abstract categories. Simply tick the ‘Creative communications’ box if you wish to present in this format. Examples of this sort of presentation can be found here.
In 2025, we are also encouraging abstracts on clean air and air pollution, tobacco use and vaping prevention and cessation, planetary health, health equity, adolescent health and the use of social media for health information. This aligns with IPCRG’s partnership in the FRESHAIR4Life project funded by Horizon Europe and UKRI, and compliments our own strategic objectives. Abstracts are welcome from all researchers on these topics, as well as FRESHAIR4Life members so that we can facilitate and build a supportive network in these important fields.
For the first time we are accepting abstracts for Creative Enquiry Presentations: expressing the lived experience through creative or artistic media to help think creatively in primary care. This can be proposed in all 3 abstract categories. Simply tick the ‘Creative communications’ box if you wish to present in this format. Examples of this sort of presentation can be found here.
In 2025, we are also encouraging abstracts on clean air and air pollution, tobacco use and vaping prevention and cessation, planetary health, health equity, adolescent health and the use of social media for health information. This aligns with IPCRG’s partnership in the FRESHAIR4Life project funded by Horizon Europe and UKRI, and compliments our own strategic objectives. Abstracts are welcome from all researchers on these topics, as well as FRESHAIR4Life members so that we can facilitate and build a supportive network in these important fields.
Clinical Research Results Abstract
Your abstract may be a summary of the findings of exploratory, effectiveness or implementation research that addresses a clinical question and uses a research method. You must include data and the work must be relevant to a primary care audience with an interest in respiratory health. Bear in mind that the IPCRG campaigns for patient care to be evidence-based, using evidence from real life, that includes populations representative of primary care populations.
The questions from our Research Prioritisation exercise provide a useful guide to what would be of most interest to our audience.
Use the IMRaD format (meta-analyses may require a different format), including an Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion.
CLICK HERE for detailed guidance and information.
Research Ideas Abstract
The Research ideas category is for proposals for research that has been carefully planned but is yet to be conducted. This can include protocols for approved research, which may already be underway.
The abstract should include the Research question, Background, Methodology and Questions to discuss.
The IPCRG actively encourages primary care practitioners to submit an abstract, being aware that there are few academic centres of primary respiratory care and that there is no global database of primary care respiratory research in progress. We would be delighted to receive abstracts describing a research question and a methodology that can then benefit from peer discussion and challenge to increase research capability in primary care respiratory research.
The questions from our Research Prioritisation exercise are a good starting point for your research ideas, and ideas can include air quality, tobacco use and dependence, physical activity, breathlessness, cough, asthma, COPD, multi-morbidity including chronic respiratory disease, respiratory infections including TB, RSV, COVID-19 and post-COVID syndrome.
CLICK HERE for detailed guidance and information.
Service Development & Evaluation Abstract
Service Development & Evaluation Abstracts should evaluate an intervention to create and/or improve a service or interventions that benefit respiratory health, including educational interventions and quality improvement programmes. This can include surveys.
It should include the aim, outline of context, a brief description of the change and why you thought it would work, your strategy for change, impact and lessons learned.
CLICK HERE for detailed guidance and information.
Your abstract may be a summary of the findings of exploratory, effectiveness or implementation research that addresses a clinical question and uses a research method. You must include data and the work must be relevant to a primary care audience with an interest in respiratory health. Bear in mind that the IPCRG campaigns for patient care to be evidence-based, using evidence from real life, that includes populations representative of primary care populations.
The questions from our Research Prioritisation exercise provide a useful guide to what would be of most interest to our audience.
Use the IMRaD format (meta-analyses may require a different format), including an Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion.
CLICK HERE for detailed guidance and information.
Research Ideas Abstract
The Research ideas category is for proposals for research that has been carefully planned but is yet to be conducted. This can include protocols for approved research, which may already be underway.
The abstract should include the Research question, Background, Methodology and Questions to discuss.
The IPCRG actively encourages primary care practitioners to submit an abstract, being aware that there are few academic centres of primary respiratory care and that there is no global database of primary care respiratory research in progress. We would be delighted to receive abstracts describing a research question and a methodology that can then benefit from peer discussion and challenge to increase research capability in primary care respiratory research.
The questions from our Research Prioritisation exercise are a good starting point for your research ideas, and ideas can include air quality, tobacco use and dependence, physical activity, breathlessness, cough, asthma, COPD, multi-morbidity including chronic respiratory disease, respiratory infections including TB, RSV, COVID-19 and post-COVID syndrome.
CLICK HERE for detailed guidance and information.
Service Development & Evaluation Abstract
Service Development & Evaluation Abstracts should evaluate an intervention to create and/or improve a service or interventions that benefit respiratory health, including educational interventions and quality improvement programmes. This can include surveys.
It should include the aim, outline of context, a brief description of the change and why you thought it would work, your strategy for change, impact and lessons learned.
CLICK HERE for detailed guidance and information.
Word Count & Format: There is a maximum of 300 words allowed for the body of the abstract.
Figures and tables: You may include one image or table to illustrate the work further. Please ensure that you have permission to use any images that you display in your abstract submission; otherwise, you may be liable for copyright infringement and associated charges.
Images can be in any format and up to 5MB in size. Any patient-identifiable images must have the patient’s written permission for display.
Note on adding tables and images: Tables and Diagrams can be uploaded added and added as supporting files and not to the abstract’s body text. Tables or Diagrams should be uploaded as jpg. or png. files and clearly labelled e.g. 1) Tables: Table 1 – Table title 2) Diagrams: Figure 1 - Figure Title.
Abstracts should be written in full sentences in English: A correct sentence structure and grammar must be used and please check your spelling. Abstracts must be written in plain English. If this is your second language, please have your abstract proofread by a colleague with good written English skills.
Review Process and Outcome: All abstracts will be peer-reviewed and authors submitting by the main deadline of 10th January 2025 will be notified of the outcome by 31st January 2025.
If you wish your abstract to be reviewed early, to help with your visa, funding or travel arrangements please submit by 1st December 2024. Abstracts submitted by 1st December will be notified of the outcome by 18th December 2024.
All abstracts with author permission will also be added to IPCRG online resources and IPCRG will disseminate these to its network.
Figures and tables: You may include one image or table to illustrate the work further. Please ensure that you have permission to use any images that you display in your abstract submission; otherwise, you may be liable for copyright infringement and associated charges.
Images can be in any format and up to 5MB in size. Any patient-identifiable images must have the patient’s written permission for display.
Note on adding tables and images: Tables and Diagrams can be uploaded added and added as supporting files and not to the abstract’s body text. Tables or Diagrams should be uploaded as jpg. or png. files and clearly labelled e.g. 1) Tables: Table 1 – Table title 2) Diagrams: Figure 1 - Figure Title.
Abstracts should be written in full sentences in English: A correct sentence structure and grammar must be used and please check your spelling. Abstracts must be written in plain English. If this is your second language, please have your abstract proofread by a colleague with good written English skills.
Review Process and Outcome: All abstracts will be peer-reviewed and authors submitting by the main deadline of 10th January 2025 will be notified of the outcome by 31st January 2025.
If you wish your abstract to be reviewed early, to help with your visa, funding or travel arrangements please submit by 1st December 2024. Abstracts submitted by 1st December will be notified of the outcome by 18th December 2024.
All abstracts with author permission will also be added to IPCRG online resources and IPCRG will disseminate these to its network.
- Abstracts can only be submitted electronically through the online abstract submission form available on this webpage and should be submitted by 10th January 2025. If you wish your abstract to be reviewed early, to help with your visa, funding or travel arrangements please submit by 1st December 2024.
- Acknowledgement of receipt of your submission will be sent to your stated email address. If you do not receive the confirmation email within 24 hours, please contact the Meeting Secretariat at info@ipcrg2025.org.
- Abstracts must be written in English.
- It is the author's responsibility to submit a complete abstract in finalised format. Any errors in spelling, grammar or scientific facts will be reproduced as typed by the author.
- Authors’ names must be listed with mixed-case letters (first name and family name in full). Affiliations (institute/hospital/university, city, country) should be properly stated in your abstract. No references to the exact addresses (street number, ZIP) are needed and will be deleted for reasons of uniformity.
- Abstract text should be split under several headings, dependent on the category you selected (please see above). Please ensure that your abstract is divided into the correct sections. Abstracts not submitted in the correct format may be marked down.
- There is a maximum limit of 300 words for each abstract, excluding the title, authors list and affiliations.
- The presenting author is indicated by clicking on the Presenter box next to the respective name in the Affiliations section.
- Pre-registration of the abstract’s presenting author is available until 28th February, 2025. It is a prerequisite for the abstract’s presentation in the Scientific Programme and its publication in the Meeting electronic material that the presenting author attends the conference.
- If an author wishes to withdraw a submitted abstract, a written request should be sent to the Meeting Secretariat at info@ipcrg2025.org.
- All authors agree to abide by the Terms & Conditions pertaining to submission, publication, and presentation of abstracts.
- The accurate submission of abstracts is also a prerequisite for their acceptance. Any submitted abstract that does not meet the above requirements will not be accepted.
- All received abstracts will be evaluated by members of the Scientific Committee of the Meeting.
- Notification of acceptance or rejection of the abstract will be sent to the corresponding author of each abstract by 31st January 2025, or by 18th December 2024 if you submit by December 1st 2024.
- The corresponding author receives all information concerning the abstract and is responsible for informing all other co-authors of the status of the abstract.
- All presenters will be asked to reconfirm their attendance after receiving the notification. If you do not reconfirm your paper presentation, register and pay the registration fee before the given deadline, your abstract will be removed from the programme.
Please read the above carefully before submitting.
