Report 11th Congress of the EAPC
Vienna, Austria, 7-10 May 2009
The programme offered pre-conference workshops and a variety of different scientific sessions.
Abstracts
A total of 1047 Abstracts from 62 different countries were received and reviewed by a panel of 108 reviewers. After review the Scientific Committee selected 84 abstracts for oral presentations, while 938 were accepted as posters. 40 of those selected for posters withdraw after acceptance.
The breakdown per abstract categories was as follows:
|
Category
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Total no. of Abstracts received
|
Abstracts accepted as poster
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Abstracts accepted oral
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Abstracts rejected
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withdrawn poster
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Assessment & measurement tools
|
73
|
69
|
5
|
1
|
6
|
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Audit & quality control
|
56
|
53
|
2
|
1
|
2
|
|
Basic science & translational research
|
15
|
14
|
|
1
|
|
|
Bereavement
|
15
|
14
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
|
Education
|
97
|
90
|
6
|
1
|
4
|
|
End of life care & quality of death
|
132
|
120
|
8
|
4
|
4
|
|
Epidemiology
|
16
|
16
|
|
|
2
|
|
Ethics
|
30
|
24
|
3
|
3
|
1
|
|
Family & care givers
|
45
|
40
|
4
|
1
|
3
|
|
Medical sociology
|
10
|
10
|
|
|
|
|
Non-cancer
|
47
|
45
|
2
|
|
1
|
|
Organisation of services
|
106
|
97
|
7
|
1
|
2
|
|
Pain
|
88
|
80
|
6
|
2
|
3
|
|
Palliative care in children and adolescents
|
40
|
36
|
4
|
|
1
|
|
Palliative care in elderly
|
37
|
35
|
1
|
1
|
|
|
Policy
|
41
|
31
|
9
|
|
3
|
|
Psychology & communication
|
66
|
53
|
7
|
5
|
3
|
|
Research methodology
|
27
|
19
|
8
|
|
|
|
Symptoms other than pain
|
106
|
92
|
11
|
3
|
4
|
|
Total:
|
1047
|
938
|
84
|
25
|
40
|
The abstract submitters indicated the following 26 different professions (from administration to researcher):
|
First Author's Profession
|
Abstracts
|
|
Administration
|
14
|
|
Clergy/Chaplain
|
5
|
|
Complementary Therapist
|
3
|
|
Dentist
|
3
|
|
Dietician
|
2
|
|
Economist
|
2
|
|
Ethician
|
4
|
|
Health Economist
|
1
|
|
Hospital Pharmacist
|
3
|
|
Neurobiologist
|
3
|
|
Nurse
|
141
|
|
Occupational Therapist
|
4
|
|
Other
|
46
|
|
Pharmacist
|
17
|
|
Physician
|
534
|
|
Physiotherapist
|
8
|
|
Psychologist
|
55
|
|
Researcher
|
108
|
|
Social Scientist
|
16
|
|
Social Worker
|
25
|
|
Sociologist
|
13
|
|
Statistician
|
1
|
|
Student
|
23
|
|
Teacher
|
15
|
|
unknown
|
1
|
|
Total:
|
1047
|
Congress Programme
In addition to the abstract presenters, an international panel of 141 invited speakers and chairs from 26 different countries and were involved in the following sessions:
- 12 “Meet the Expert Sessions” provided a broad understanding of palliative care – from genetics to music therapy, from understanding the palliative care needs across the lifespan to the demands of current policy and practice.
- 5 Plenary-Sessions and 24 Parallel Symposia, presented not only topics of pain and symptom control but also ethical, psychosocial and spiritual issues. A specific focus on children, elderly people and the development in politics not only in Europe, but also in developing countries was also included in the Vienna programme
- 14 Free-Communication-Sessions, during which the most highly evaluated of the submitted abstracts, were presented in short reports, making it possible to illustrate current developments across the various research themes.
- 7 industry-sponsored Symposia were presented which demonstrated new medications for clinical use and current research on therapies which will be of use to practitioners in the coming months
Participants
The 11th Congress of the EAPC took place in Vienna Austria from 6th to 10th of May 2009. The total number of delegates present at the Congress were 2732, excluding journalists and workshop participants at the pre-conference workshops held on the Thursday. If we add the additional 213 day registrations of the Thursday volunteer’s workshop, we have reached a total number of 2945 participants from 77 countries from all over the world.
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Group 1: Central East Europe and Former Soviet union
|
|
|
| ALBANIA |
4
|
| BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA |
2
|
| BULGARIA |
2
|
| CROATIA |
4
|
| CZECH REPUBLIC |
25
|
| ESTONIA |
2
|
| GEORGIA |
6
|
| HUNGARY |
26
|
| LATVIA |
5
|
| LITHUANIA |
6
|
| MOLDOVA |
4
|
| MONTENEGRO |
1
|
| POLAND |
94
|
| ROMANIA |
24
|
| RUSSIA |
1
|
| SERBIA |
4
|
| SLOVAKIA |
10
|
| SLOVENIA |
17
|
| UKRAINE |
4
|
|
241
|
|
|
Group 3 - Rest of the World
|
|
|
| ARGENTINA |
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| AUSTRALIA |
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| BANGLADESH |
|
| BRAZIL |
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| CANADA |
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| CHILE |
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| CHINA |
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| CAMBODIA |
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| COLOMBIA |
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| COSTA RICA |
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| ECUADOR |
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| EGYPT |
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| HONG KONG |
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| INDIA |
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| IRAN |
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| ISRAEL |
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| JAPAN |
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| JORDAN |
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| KENIA |
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| LEBANON |
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| MALAYSIA |
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| MEXICO |
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| MOROCCO |
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| NEW ZEALAND |
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| NIGERIA |
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| PHILIPPINES |
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| SAUDI ARABIA |
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| SIERRA LEONE |
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| SOUTH AFRICA |
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| SOUTH KOREA |
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| TAIWAN |
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| TAJIKISTAN |
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| TURKEY |
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| UGANDA |
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| UNITED ARAB EMIRATES |
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| URUGUAY |
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| USA |
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| VENEZUELA |
|
|
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| Total: |
2732
|
| |
|
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Workshop 4 - only dayticket
|
|
|
| Austria |
195
|
| Czech Republic |
4
|
| Germany |
10
|
| Hungary |
4
|
|
213
|
|
|
| TOTAL |
2945
|
|
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Group 2: Western Europe
|
|
|
| AUSTRIA |
232
|
| BELGIUM |
118
|
| CYPRUS |
2
|
| DENMARK |
119
|
| FINLAND |
47
|
| FRANCE |
89
|
| GERMANY |
263
|
| GREECE |
15
|
| ICELAND |
5
|
| IRELAND |
71
|
| ITALY |
60
|
| LUXEMBOURG |
4
|
| MALTA |
4
|
| NETHERLANDS |
168
|
| NORWAY |
152
|
| PORTUGAL |
41
|
| SPAIN |
163
|
| SWEDEN |
179
|
| SWITZERLAND |
79
|
| UNITED KINGDOM |
384
|
|
2195
|
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| The country breakdown shows that 80,34 % of delegates were from western Europe, 8,82 % from Eastern and Central Europe and the states of the Former Soviet Union and 10,83 % from other parts of the world. |
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The country Breakdown by alphabetical order of all EAPC congresses can be viewed at: https://eapcnet.org/congresses/CongressPartBreakdown.htm
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