The Health Care group research group, led by Dr. Carmen Fuentelsaz, has been awarded the best oral communication in the "https://encuentros.isciii.es/vitoria2014/es/invite.html" 18th International Nursing Research Conference, held in Vitoria-Gasteiz.The award-winning work, “Blood extractions in critical patients as a cause of anemization”, is the fruit of six years of work at VHIR under the supervision of Anabel Solsona, Maria del Mar Eseverri, Mercedes Garrido, Maria Alba Riera, Jordi Gómez, Montserrat Lolo, Maria Agustina Paricio, Dina Butrón and Elisabeth Gallart.The Conference, organized by the Health Care research unit at the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, is the most important meeting in health care research taking place in Spain. In the present edition 433 research projects were presented, almost all of them developed by nursing professionals from 23 different countries, amongst which Catalunya stands out as the one that presented more projects, with a total of 77.