Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine: Impact on Animal Health and Welfare
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 8728
Special Issue Editors
Interests: small animal reproduction; large animal reproduction; parturition; metabolism; effects of neutering; data acquisition from practice
Interests: horses; pseudoscience; “alternative” medicine; equine welfare; lameness; evidence-based practice
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide insights into the development and understanding of knowledge translation and evidence-based decision-making in veterinary medicine, according to evidence-based principles.
The practice of evidence-based veterinary medicine (EBVM) is not limited to high-quality research results from randomized and controlled trials. We not only invite rigorous scientific studies, but also meta-analyses or systematic reviews, as well as findings and commentaries on tools, methods, and concepts that are vital to EBVM. Other vital concepts may include reports about clinical trial registers, ensuring reproducibility of results, papers on literature evaluation, new approaches to gathering information from practice, and strategies for policy making and management. Other projects, such as the workup of failures, assessment of drug safety, concepts for education, approaches for owner communication (shared decision making), and examples of application of EBVM to veterinary practice, are also welcome.
Dr. Sebastian Patrick Arlt
Dr. David Ramey
Dr. Silvan Urfer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- evidence-based veterinary medicine
- clinical veterinary medicine
- clinical reasoning
- improvement of clinical care
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