10th Stroke Symposium - Getting the Message: Improving Communication in Stroke Care - Abstract
Call for abstracts for poster and rapid podium presentations is now closed!
Friday, January 27, 2012
Hyatt Regency Toronto
Effective communication is an integral part of exceptional stroke care. It is vital that we examine our communication patterns with our day-to-day interactions with persons with stroke and their families, with the public at large, within our teams, and across transition points of care, with our students and in our dissemination of research.
An invitation for abstracts is extended to health care professionals of all types working in stroke care.
Present your scholarly work in any of the following related themes:
• Communication with persons with stroke and their families
• Communication with the general public at large
• Communication within teams
• Communication across transition points of care
• Communication patterns with students
• Communication of involving dissemination of research
Topic ideas include:
- Patient/ family education
- Active listening
- Delivering realistic messages (balancing hope with reality)
- Patient mediated tools
- Relationship-centered care (RCC) - stresses partnership, careful attention to the relational process, shared decision-making, and self-awareness
- Understanding readiness for information
- Interprofessional care
- Working with culturally/linguistically diverse clients
- Serving “hard to reach” communities
- Distance stroke consultation models
- Improving staff interactions
- Preparing people for discharge
- Communication at transition points
- How to give bad news
- Informed consent for patients with communication/cognitive impairments
- Clinical education (allied health, medical residents)
- Knowledge translation (bridging research with clinical practice)
- Motivational Interviewing
Submissions are invited for either poster or rapid podium presentations. Posters will be displayed all day and the presenter will be required to be in attendance during refreshment breaks. Rapid podium sessions will be 15 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions and may be presented by one individual or by two members of a clinical or research team.
Deadline for submission: Extended to Sunday, October 2, 2011
Upon notification of acceptance, authors will be asked to send confirmation of their attendance,and to register for the conference. Funding is not available for abstract poster or rapid podium presentations.
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For more information about this event please contact Toronto Rehab’s Conference Services at
416-597-3422, ext. 3693 or by email: conferences@torontorehab.on.ca.