FreeStyle living with diabetes: learning from case studies 2024 competition

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 2024 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.

In our recently published article, see what the 2022 People’s Choice Award recipient says about the competition and its benefits on diabetes care.

Important dates

Submit your case study now
Make an enquiry
Revisit our webinar on the 2024 Abbott Case Study Competition

More about the competition

  1. Criteria for 2024 case study submissions 

  2. Selection process

  3. Prize structure

  4. Resources to help you get started

  5. Consent process & terms and conditions


Criteria for 2024 case study submissions 

The following questions are to be addressed in each case study submitted:

1. How have the patient’s outcomes (clinical or non-clinical) improved with this technology?
2. How has the technology been used to make a difference to a patient’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 to prevent an adverse event?
5. Describe any challenges patients have found with this technology. What has been done as a consequence to address these challenges?

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

Judge’s Choice Award

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 (to be eligible for Round Two, you must be available to present in person at ADC 2024).

Round two

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

  1. The top four candidates will be invited to present their case studies orally at the ADC.
  2. Delegates will vote on the quality of presentations and the criteria being met. Case study winners will be ranked and presented 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th for the People’s Choice Awards.

Early Career Award


Prize structure

Top 10

Judge’s Choice Award

Early Career Award


Resources to help you get started

FreeStyle living with diabetes: lessons from 2023 case studies

Read the top 10 case studies in 2023 here: Abbott Case Study Booklet 2023.

Congratulations to Cindy Shea and Catharine McNamara who won the Abbott Freestyle Living with Diabetes Case Study People’s Choice Award for their case study: Managing hypoglycaemia unawareness in older adults with type 1 diabetes.

2024 Abbott Case Study Competition: showcase your expertise in using flash glucose monitoring to improve quality of life

Our latest webinar featured expert judges and previous winners of the competition. The webinar presents all facets of the competition, including guidance about the judging criteria and other valuable tips to kickstart your entry and showcase your expertise in using flash glucose monitoring technology. Revisit the webinar recording on LMS.

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 living 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.

Online Consent Form

Consent Form

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 1,501st 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 2024 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.

FreeStyle living with diabetes: learning from case studies 2024 competition

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 2024 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.

In our recently published article, see what the 2022 People’s Choice Award recipient says about the competition and its benefits on diabetes care.

Important dates

  • 6 February 2024: Applications open
  • 19 May 2024 at 11:59 pm: Applications close
  • May-June 2024: Selection of finalists and results
  • August 2024: Case studies presentation at ADC2024
  • August 2024: Announcement of People’s Choice Awards and the Early Career Award
Submit your case study now
Make an enquiry
Revisit our webinar on the 2024 Abbott Case Study Competition

More about the competition

  1. Criteria for 2024 case study submissions 

  2. Selection process

  3. Prize structure

  4. Resources to help you get started

  5. Consent process & terms and conditions


Criteria for 2024 case study submissions 

The following questions are to be addressed in each case study submitted:

1. How have the patient’s outcomes (clinical or non-clinical) improved with this technology?
2. How has the technology been used to make a difference to a patient’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 to prevent an adverse event?
5. Describe any challenges patients have found with this technology. What has been done as a consequence to address these challenges?

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

Judge’s Choice Award

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 (to be eligible for Round Two, you must be available to present in person at ADC 2024).

Round two

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

  1. The top four candidates will be invited to present their case studies orally at the ADC.
  2. Delegates will vote on the quality of presentations and the criteria being met. Case study winners will be ranked and presented 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th for the People’s Choice Awards.

Early Career Award

  • One entrant will be selected for the Early Career Award and invited to present their case study at ADC.
  • Entrant must be a current ACTIVE Full Member of ADEA
  • Entrant must have less than 2 years’ experience as a CDE or working towards initial credentialing.
  • Entrant must not have entered the Abbott Case Study Competition previously

Prize structure

Top 10

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

Judge’s Choice Award

  • First prize: $5000 scholarship to attend professional development activities.
  • 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.

Early Career Award


Resources to help you get started

FreeStyle living with diabetes: lessons from 2023 case studies

Read the top 10 case studies in 2023 here: Abbott Case Study Booklet 2023.

Congratulations to Cindy Shea and Catharine McNamara who won the Abbott Freestyle Living with Diabetes Case Study People’s Choice Award for their case study: Managing hypoglycaemia unawareness in older adults with type 1 diabetes.

2024 Abbott Case Study Competition: showcase your expertise in using flash glucose monitoring to improve quality of life

Our latest webinar featured expert judges and previous winners of the competition. The webinar presents all facets of the competition, including guidance about the judging criteria and other valuable tips to kickstart your entry and showcase your expertise in using flash glucose monitoring technology. Revisit the webinar recording on LMS.

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 living 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.

Online Consent Form

Consent Form

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 1,501st 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 2024 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.