Aims: To create a profile of Society for Acute Medicine (SAM) Audit and Quality Improvement (A&QI) accepted abstracts from the last seven UK based conferences.
Methodology: The profile elements for 380 SAM A&QI abstracts accepted for poster presentation were compiled from their respective conference programme booklets. Abstracts were classified into 30 categories based on key themes. Further sub-categorisation of abstracts was based on secondary detail of the submissions. Data was analysed with Pareto charts.
Findings: The majority of submissions were covered by a small representation of themes, with 30% of category themes covering 80% of A&QI abstracts.
There is a repetitive trend of theme categories across all the conferences.
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