Guides: Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine: Overview

Databases

VetSRev
VetSRev is a freely-accessible online database of citations for systematic reviews of relevance to veterinary medicine and science.
BestBETs for Vets
Best Evidence Topics (BETs) are simple reviews of the current best evidence available to answer simple, common and specific clinical questions. They are designed to be a quick and achievable method of enabling the incorporation of evidence into clinical practice.

Consultant
Diagnostic support system from Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine provides possible diagnoses or causes for clinical signs and symptoms. Also provides a brief synopsis of the diagnosis/cause including: 1) a general description, 2) species affected, 3) signs/symptoms and 4) a list of recent literature references.
VINcyclopedia Differential Diagnosis Tool
VIN Veterinary Information Network
Requires free registration (limited to veterinary faculty, housestaff and students). Enter findings in VINcyclopedia of Diseases to see associated diseases.

RCVS inFOCUS
An innovative journal produced by RCVS Knowledge’s Library & Information Services team, who watch the content of over 100 veterinary journals and other key sources to compile a shortlist of the most important articles for each bi-monthly email.

Handbook of Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine
Online version of 2008 book by Cockcroft & Holmes. Includes chapters on framing questions, searching, appraising evidence, educational needs, etc.
Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine
May 2007 issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal Practice devoted to all aspects of EBVM, including refining the clinical question, searching, appraising, interpreting statistics, clinical reasoning, and examples of their application to small animal practice.
EBVM Publications
An evidence-based veterinary medicine bibliography from EBVMA

EQUATOR Network
EQUATOR [Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research] links to guidelines for reporting research studies (CONSORT, PRISMA-P, STROBE, etc.)
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Randomised trials CONSORT
Observational studies STROBE
Systematic reviews PRISMA
Case reports CARE
Qualitative research SRQR COREQ
Diagnostic / prognostic studies STARD TRIPOD
Quality improvement studies SQUIRE
Economic evaluations CHEERS
Animal pre-clinical studies ARRIVE
Study protocols SPIRIT PRISMA-P
REFLECT Statement Website
An evidence-based minimum set of items for trials reporting production, health, and food-safety outcomes: Reporting guidelines for randomized controlled trials for livestock and food safety.

Evidence-based (human) medicine resources
Links to major evidence-based medicine resources, including Users' Guides to the Medical Literature, Cochrane Library, ACP Journal Club, EBM tutorials, etc.

Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine Association
The Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine Association (EBVMA) is a non-profit professional organization founded to better organize the emerging research, training and practice of evidence-based veterinary medicine. Site includes literature lists, netcasts and forums about EBVM.
Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine (CEVM) at the University of Nottingham

EBVM Learning Tutorial
This tutorial was written by veterinary educators and practitioners from the EBVM Network, and is supported by RCVS Knowledge (Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons)
EBVM Toolkit
Guides for asking an answerable clinical question, fiinding the best available evidence, and critically appraising the evidence
SYREAF (Systematic Reviews For Animals and Food)