Submit your case study to win prizes

Submit your case study about the care, education, and self-management of diabetes involving the use of flash glucose monitoring and LibreView and the ambulatory glucose profile (AGP) report for your chance to win a share of nearly $5000 in scholarship prizes.

You’ll also go into the running to receive full registrations to the Australasian Diabetes Congress 2023 and your case study could be featured in the Abbott FreeStyle Case Study booklet, a prominent publication that will be printed and showcased at the congress.

See what the 2022 People’s Choice Award recipient says about the competition and its benefits on diabetes care.

Important dates

• 31 March 2023: Applications open
• 22 May 2023 at 11.59pm: Applications close
• May 2023: Selection of finalists and results
• August 2023: Case studies presentation at ADC2023
• August 2023: Announcement of People’s Choice Awards

More about the competition

1. Topics for case study submissions

2. Selection process

3. Prize structure

4. Resources to help you get started

5. Consent process & terms and conditions

Topics for case study submissions

1. How have the client’s outcomes (clinical or non-clinical) improved with this technology?
2. How has the technology been used to make a difference in a client’s quality of life?
3. How has the technology changed practice for an individual health professional or the diabetes care team?
4. How has it helped prevent an adverse event?
5. What are the challenges clients have found with this technology? What has been done as a consequence?
6. Discuss innovative ways to increase time in range.
7. How has the FreeStyle Libre or Libre 2 helped facilitate ‘freestyle living’ with diabetes?

Format

Please submit your entry following the guidelines and using this TEMPLATE.

Submitted case studies should include principles of person-centred care and adhere to the Diabetes Australia language position statement and the Reconciliation Australia language guide while discussing the use of flash glucose monitoring and LibreView that incorporates the AGP Report.

Selection process

Round one

Selected by reviewing panel.

1. Reviewers will select the top 10 winning case studies for publication.
2. Among these 10, authors of the top four will be invited to round two.

Round two

The People’s Choice Award will be selected by delegates at the ADC.

1. The top four candidates will be selected to record a video presentation. Videos will be published on the ADEA Learning Management System for peers to vote on the quality of the presentations.

Video criteria
Introduction (30–40 seconds):

• Your name and title
• Title of your case study
• Introduce your client de-identified (age, gender, and relevant medical and social factors)

Initiation (50–60 seconds):

• What was the rationale for using the selected FreeStyle Libre device/system?
• How was the device accepted/received by the client?
• Was there any hesitation and, if so, how was it overcome?

Impact on client outcomes and quality of life (30–40 seconds):

• How have the client’s outcomes (clinical or non-clinical) improved with this technology?
• How has the technology been used to make a difference in a client’s quality of life?

Conclusion (30–40 seconds):

• What are your lessons gained?
• What advice do you have for fellow CDEs?

Round three

1. The same top four candidates will be invited to present in person at the ADC.
2. The judges will host a panel discussion. The judges will have a scorecard and give presenters a score. The judges’ scores and the peer vote online on the Learning Management System will be combined to select the winners of first, second, third, and fourth prizes.
3. Winners will be announced at the ADC.

Voting ratio

The judges’ criteria at the ADC will form 60% of the votes, with the remainder being based on member votes via the ADEA Learning Management System.

Prize structure

Top 10

• Full registration to attend the ADC.
• Publication in the Abbott FreeStyle Case Study booklet

People’s Choice Award

• First prize: $3000 scholarship to attend professional development activities.
  • Case study to be published in The Australian Diabetes Educator Publication.
• Second prize: $1000 scholarship to attend professional development activities.
• Third prize: $500 scholarship to attend professional development activities.
• Fourth prize: $250 scholarship to attend professional development activities.

Resources to help you get started

FreeStyle living with diabetes: lessons from 2022 case studies

Read the top 10 case studies in 2022 here: Abbott Case Study Booklet 2022.

Congratulations to Shona Vigus, CDE, who won the Abbott Freestyle Living with Diabetes Case Study People’s Choice Award for her case study FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring in someone living with type 3c diabetes.

Presentation: Writing a successful case study

This presentation by Karen Crawford has been developed by the case study judges and it offers tips to ensure a successful case study submission.

Podcast: Case study competition tips and tricks

Hosted by Dr Ashley Ng, this podcast with Chris Uren, winner of the 2019 Abbott Case Study Competition, shares tips and tricks about submitting a written case study.

Chris discusses his experience with the preparation phase, challenges, and invaluable takeaways from his own work in the process.

Webinar with 2022 competition winner

Shona Vigus is the People’s Choice Award winner for best case study in the Freestyle living with Diabetes — learning from people living with Diabetes competition held in Brisbane in 2022.

In this webinar, she shares her approach to optimise care and improve the lives of those living with diabetes.

Podcast with 2022 competition runner-up

This podcast is with Katherine Snars, who was the runner-up for the Freestyle Living with Diabetes: Learning from case studies competition.

Consent process

Applicants must obtain written consent from people with diabetes discussed in the submitted case studies, giving permission that they are happy for the selected case studies to be published via print and/or online by ADEA.

Terms and conditions

1. Submitted case studies must include any principle(s) of person-centred care and adhere to the Diabetes Australia language position statements while discussing the identified questions.
2. All written case studies must be submitted using the provided template.
3. Parts of the submitted case studies that are over the limit (i.e. from the 1,001st word of the written case study) will not be considered.
4. Submitted case studies must de-identify details of the person in the case study to ensure confidentiality. This means neither names nor initials and locations should be mentioned in the submissions. For example, ‘a 32-year-old woman with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes attended our health service for…’.
5. Applicants must obtain the consent of people with diabetes discussed in the submitted case studies, giving permission that they are happy for the selected case studies to be published via print and/or online by ADEA. Submitted case studies without matching consent will not be reviewed.
6. Submitted case studies must follow the Vancouver referencing style.
7. Ten successful applicants will receive registrations to the 2023 ADC, financially supported by Abbott Diabetes Care.
8. Recipients of the first prize People’s Choice Award may have their case study published in The ADE Publication.
9. Members of the reviewing panel and members of the Abbott Libre advisory committee are not eligible for this competition.
10. Any adverse events experienced by health professionals or people with diabetes should be reported to Abbott Diabetes Care’s customer service.

The competition is managed and facilitated by ADEA based on consultation with a review panel of experienced endocrinologists and CDEs.

Abbott financially supports this program.