You’re invited to attend the 3rd International Conference on Safety, Quality, Audit & Outcomes Research in Intensive Care which will take place at the Millennium Hotel, Queenstown on 6 and 7 August 2009.

This 3rd Conference will continue to build on the previous highly successful Conferences. The major themes for this year are “Balanced Scorecard Reporting of Intensive Care Performance” and safety initiatives such as preventing central line associated bacteraemia, video self-assessment of clinical handover processes, and nursing practices affecting safety at the bedside.

Although this Conference will be based on Intensive Care, the topics will be applicable to a wide range of health related personnel as the methods explored will be broadly based and designed to bring rigor to the many initiatives aiming to improve the safety and quality of our work.

The Conference will be theoretically grounded but practically oriented with active discussions, workshops and free papers to develop new safety and outcomes initiatives.  The Conference deliberately focuses on multidisciplinary team activities and is suitable for critical care nursing, allied health staff and physicians.

Overseas speakers include Professor Kathy Rowan (Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre, UK), Dr Ville Petilla (Finland) as well as a raft of exceptionally talented local colleagues from health, industry and the social sciences.

We look forward to welcoming you to Queenstown for what will be a fantastic Conference.

A/Prof Graeme Hart MBBS FANZCA FJFICM
Conference Convenor
Deputy Director, Intensive Care Clinical Director Austin Centre for Applied Clinical Informatics Austin Health, Victoria, Australia; Chair ANZICS CORE Management Committee

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Theme

Safety, Quality, Audit and Outcomes Research in Intensive Care.
The program will also address the following:

• current quality initiatives and outcomes,
• methods papers, statistical or outcomes and
• epidemiological topics

Key Dates

The Conference objectives are to:

• Promote patient safety through research into intensive care safety, quality, audit and outcomes assessment methodology;
• continue the cycle of project planning and implementation related to intensive care safety, quality, audit and outcomes by rigorous assessment of priorities, appropriate method design, efficacy assessment and large scale roll-out of successful programs;
• assess, develop and teach management strategies for effective implementation of proven programs especially where Australasian research has shown beneficial outcomes;
• to engage the research community in high quality intensive care safety, quality, audit and outcomes initiatives in order to reduce the “friction between research and quality”;
• to continue a process of rigorous assessment of local and international safety and quality initiatives in the Australasian context; and
• to further develop cross-specialty and cross-discipline dialogue and learning in areas of statistics and epidemiology, human behaviour, organisation and change management, qualitative and quantitative research, industrial monitoring techniques and economics.

About ANZICS

The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) is the peak professional and advocacy body for medical practitioners specialising in the treatment and management of critically ill patients in public and private hospitals. ANZICS leads the world in intensive care research through its Clinical Trials Group and patient databases, including the Adult Patient Database, the Paediatric Intensive Care Registry and the Research Centre for Critical Care Resources. The Society is devoted to all aspects of intensive care medical practice through ongoing professional education, the provision of leadership in medical settings, clinical research and analysis of critical care resources.

Visit our website for further information: www.anzics.com.au

Going Green

The SQAO Conference Organising Committee is striving to reduce the impact on the environment associated with hosting a Conference. The following activities have been implemented to reduce the negative impacts:

• Minimising the amount of print collateral
• Printing on recycled paper
• Electronic marketing
• Promoting electronic registration

The SQAO Conference has recognised that the largest impact of any major event is the transport related emissions and more than half of the delegates will use air transport to attend the Conference.
If you choose to offset your carbon emissions for this event, we recommend visiting Carbon Neutral’s website to make a donation. From this site you can calculate your off-set and make a donation. Please visit the website for further information or contact the friendly staff who will be able to assist you. www.carbonneutral.com.au/calc

Green Printing

Delegates are asked to be mindful of printing materials from the Conference website or pre-arrival information sent to you. All information and more will be in your Conference Program book given to you upon registration. Please do not print unless necessary.

CONTACT US

SQAO Conference Managers
arinex
GPO Box 128, SYDNEY NSW 2001 Australia
P: 1300 799 691 (within Australia)
OR: +61 2 9265 0890 (International)
F: +61 2 9265 0880
E: sqao2009@arinex.com.au