Call for abstracts
Thank you for your interest in speaking at the World Home Healthcare Congress 2027.
Those who wish to present their work at the congress, either orally or as a poster, are invited to submit an abstract consideration by the Abstract Grading Committee.
Abstracts can only be submitted online. Abstracts must be submitted in English.
1. Important dates and deadlines
Abstract submission open: November 4, 2026
Abstract submission deadline: January 5, 2027
Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 2027
2. Presentation format
- International Symposium
- Poster (Duration : 3 minutes presentation and 2 minutes Q&A)
3. Category :
Please choose two categories which most suitable for your presentation from list below.
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Clinical Practice & Advances in Home-Based Care Disease management, diagnosis and treatment, complex care, geriatrics, dementia care, and related areas |
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| 2 |
Hospital at Home & Acute Care at Home Hospital admission avoidance, early supported discharge, intravenous therapy, acute deterioration, and emergency care at home |
| 3 |
Palliative, End-of-Life & Serious Illness Care Symptom management, advance care planning (ACP), end-of-life care, and death at home |
| 4 |
Patient, Family & Caregiver Experience Quality of life (QOL), patient-reported outcomes (PROs), caregiver burden, and shared decision-making |
| 5 |
Integrated Care, Multidisciplinary Teams & Workforce Interprofessional care, community integration, education and training, workforce development, and task shifting |
| 6 |
Quality, Safety & Outcomes Hospitalization, emergency department transfers, mortality, adverse events, and quality indicators |
| 7 |
Digital Health, Artificial Intelligence & Innovation Remote monitoring, telemedicine, artificial intelligence, wearable technologies, and robotics |
| 8 |
Policy, Economics, Organization & Implementation Reimbursement, cost-effectiveness, regulation, scalability, and implementation science |
| 9 |
Social, Ethical, Equity & Sustainability Issues Access to care, rural healthcare, health equity, ethics, and environmental sustainability |
| 10 |
Research Methods, Data & Evaluation Randomized controlled trials (RCTs), real-world data, registries, outcome measures, and research methodology |
4. Guidelines for abstract preparation
- Title should be within 160 characters including spaces.
- Abstract should be within 1,600 characters and arranged under the following headings: Objective, Subjects and Methods, Results, Conclusions. For case reports, the headings should be appropriately changed (for example, for case reports, Introduction, Cases, Discussion and if relevant, Conclusions).
- Declare the Conflict of Interests.
- As abstracts are subject to peer review (double-blind), please do not include any information that could identify your institution, affiliation, or organization in the abstract body.
- Please use generic names for drugs rather than brand names. Likewise, for medical devices and other products, please use generic or non-proprietary names instead of trade or product names.
- Each author can submit a maximum of two abstracts as a presenting author.
- Photographs, figures, and tables cannot be included in the abstract.
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On abstract submission form, please select whether you have obtained an approval of the ethics committee, e.g. IRB, or if it is not necessary. This does not need to be stated in the abstract text.
In the case that a presentation theme relates to “Ethical guidelines for Clinical Research”, the approval of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) or the Ethical Review Board (ERB) is required by the time of abstract submission. Please refer to the guideline of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Personal information protection
"Names" and "contact addresses" provided to us at registration for the meeting shall be used for the purpose of contact from the secretariat, notification of acceptance or rejection, and any information related to the presentation. In addition, the “presenters' names," “affiliation names," “title" and “abstract text" shall be used for publication in the program/abstract book and on the website, but not for other purposes. All registered information will be strictly managed with the necessary security measures in place.
Submission policy
You can check and modify your abstract as many times as you like until the deadline for abstract submission. Abstracts generally may not be revised or withdrawn after the deadline for abstract submission.