NHMRC NICS Evidence into Action Prize

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), through its National Institute of Clinical Studies (NICS), will award a $1,000 prize for the paper or poster that best demonstrates improving health care by closing an important gap between the available evidence and current clinical practice, within Australian health care settings.

Prize criteria

• Is the paper related to closing an important gap between the best available evidence and current clinical practice?
• Does the paper mention results of the practice change and how these were achieved or not?
• Does the paper mention barriers or enablers in implementing the practice change?
• Was implementation theory applied in the change process?

NICS will also profile the winning entry and authors/presenters on the NICS website, www.nhmrc.gov.au/nics.

NHMRC is Australia's peak body for supporting health and medical research. As part of the NHMRC, NICS works to improve health care by getting health and medical research into practice.

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For more information please visit the CENA website www.cena.org.au.