ABCs of EBVM
6. Challenges of EBVM
6.2. What is helping to address the challenges?
6.2. What is helping to address the challenges?
A close dialogue with practitioners will help raise awareness of the existing evidence and can inform the direction of future research. There is recognition within the veterinary profession that a greater collaboration and investment in research is required to create a better evidence base from which to inform clinical decision-making.
Collating and analysing existing data
Initiatives to collate data held within clinical record systems (e.g. VetCompass and SAVSNET ) aim to analyse disease trends, interventions and treatments and provide information for academics, clinicians and the public.
Evidence summaries
These are concise summaries of the best available evidence for a clinical question. Evidence summaries save practitioners time, by allowing them to see the 'clinical bottom line' at the click of a button, and facilitate evidence-based clinical decision-making. Examples of open access evidence summaries are:
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