Reference : Is evidence-based medicine so evident in veterinary research and practice? : History, ob...

	Document type :	Scientific journals : Article
	Discipline(s) :	Life sciences : Multidisciplinary, general & others
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/103718

Title :	Is evidence-based medicine so evident in veterinary research and practice? : History, obstacles and perspectives
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Vandeweerd, Jean-Michel [Université de Liège - ULg > Département clinique des animaux de production (DCP) > Département clinique des animaux de production (DCP) >]
	Kirschvink, Nathalie [Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix - Namur - FUNDP > Médecine vétérinaire > > >]
	Clegg, Peter [University of Liverpool > Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Department of Musculoskeletal Biology > >]
	Vandenput, Sandrina [Université de Liège - ULg > CARE "Le Réseau des bibliothèques de l'ULg" > Bibliothèque des Sciences de la vie >]
	Gustin, Pascal [Université de Liège - ULg > Département de sciences fonctionnelles > Pharmacologie, pharmacothérapie et toxicologie >]
	Saegerman, Claude [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des maladies infectieuses et parasitaires > Epidémiologie et analyse des risques appl. aux sc. vétér. >]
Publication date :	2011
Journal title :	Veterinary Journal
Publisher :	Elsevier
Audience :	International
ISSN :	1090-0233
Keywords :	[en] Evidence-based veterinary medicine
Abstract :	[en] Evidence-based medicine (EBM) refers to the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence from research for the care of an individual patient. The concept of EBM was first described in human medicine in the early 1990s and was introduced to veterinary medicine 10years later. However, it is not clear that the EBM approach promulgated in human medicine can be applied to the same extent to veterinary medicine. EBM has the potential to help veterinarians to make more informed decisions, but obstacles to the implementation of EBM include a lack of high quality patient-centred research, the need for basic understanding of clinical epidemiology by veterinarians, the absence of adequate searching techniques and accessibility to scientific data bases and the inadequacy of EBM tools that can be applied to the busy daily practise of veterinarians. This review describes the development of EBM in the veterinary profession, identifies its advantages and disadvantages and discusses whether and how veterinary surgeons should further adopt the EBM approach of human medicine.
Target :	Professionals ; Students
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/103718
DOI :	10.1016/j.tvjl.2011.04.013

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