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Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine
30 January 2012
The concept of evidence-based veterinary medicine (EBVM) should be the ultimate goal of every food animal veterinary practitioner or animal scientist. Day after day in our practice, we try to make the...
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Sébastien Buczinski,
Jean-Michel Vandeweerd
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xiii-xiv
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How Can Veterinarians Base Their Medical Decisions on the Best Available Scientific Evidence?
16 January 2012
Today veterinarians play an important role in 5 related fields of work: public health, biomedical research, global food safety and security, ecosystem health, as well as in the more traditional role o...
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Jean-Michel Vandeweerd,
Peter Clegg,
Sébastien Buczinski
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1-11
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Using Systematic Reviews to Critically Appraise the Scientific Information for the Bovine Veterinarian
As in human medicine, information tools such as systematic reviews and CATs (critically appraised topics) should be available to busy veterinary practitioners so that they devote their scarce reading ...
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Jean-Michel Vandeweerd,
Peter Clegg,
V. Hougardy,
Sébastien Buczinski
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13-21
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Evidence Related to the Use of Ancillary Drugs in Bovine Respiratory Disease (Anti-Inflammatory and Others): Are They Justified or Not?
Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) remains a major problem in dairy cattle, cow-calf operations, and the feedlot industry. The major costs of this complex are due to mortality, treatment costs, and an a...
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David Francoz,
Sébastien Buczinski,
Mike Apley
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23-38
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Systematic Review: What is the Best Antibiotic Treatment for Staphylococcus aureus Intramammary Infection of Lactating Cows in North America?
06 January 2012
Staphylococcus aureus is still one of the most prevalent pathogens causing intramammary infections (IMI) in dairy cattle worldwide.S aureus is typically recognized as a cause of chronic subclinical in...
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Jean-Philippe Roy,
Greg Keefe
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39-50
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Evidence-Based Use of Prokinetic Drugs for Abomasal Disorders in Cattle
Impaired abomasal motility is common in dairy cattle and is suspected to play a major role in the development of left displaced abomasum (LDA), abomasal volvulus (AV), and abomasal impaction in adult ...
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Peter D. Constable,
Mohammad Nouri,
Ismail Sen,
Aubrey N. Baird,
Thomas Wittek
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51-70
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Evidence-Based Medicine Concerning Efficacy of Vaccination Against Clostridium chauvoei Infection in Cattle
30 January 2012
Clostridium chauvoei causes blackleg and malignant edema in cattle, sheep, and occasionally other animal species. The organism has been blamed for other less well defined conditions (eg, “sudden death...
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Francisco A. Uzal
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Therapeutic Efficiency of Antibiotics and Prostaglandin F2α in Postpartum Dairy Cows with Clinical Endometritis: An Evidence-Based Evaluation
In the past decade, the decreasing fertility of dairy cows has caught considerable attention in veterinary science. Since reproductive performance is strongly related to the health status of the uteru...
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Rejean C. Lefebvre,
Angelika E. Stock
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79-96
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Evidence-Based Effectiveness of Vaccination Against Mannheimia haemolytica, Pasteurella multocida, and Histophilus somni in Feedlot Cattle for Mitigating the Incidence and Effect of Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) was introduced to the medical literature in a 1992 article by the Evidence-based Working Group at McMaster University Health Sciences Centre in Canada to describe the cli...
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R.L. Larson,
D.L. Step
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Overview of Meta-Analysis of Monensin in Dairy Cattle
06 February 2012
Meta-analyses represent a particularly useful subset of quantitative, systematic literature review. These provide the highest levels of evidence in medicine. Only large, randomized multicenter clinica...
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Todd F. Duffield,
Ahmad Rabiee,
Ian J. Lean
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107-119
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Evidence-Based Early Clinical Detection of Emerging Diseases in Food Animals and Zoonoses: Two Cases
Evidence-based veterinary medicine (EBVM) is the application of evidence-based medicine (EBM) to the veterinary field. By definition, it is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of the best s...
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Claude Saegerman,
Marie-France Humblet,
Sarah Rebecca Porter,
Gina Zanella,
Ludovic Martinelle
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Evidence-Based Practice? An Evolution Is Necessary for Bovine Practitioners, Teachers, and Researchers
03 February 2012
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a recent discipline for veterinarians that has largely developed from the concepts promulgated in human medicine. Veterinary pioneers have tried to apply convincingly ...
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Jean-Michel Vandeweerd,
Pascal Gustin,
Sébastien Buczinski
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133-139
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