Q&A from Steve and David's talk at the Veterinary Evidence Today conference, Edinburgh November 1, 2016.

Practice-based research should be performed in all practice settings if the results are to be applied to all practice settings. While the previous statement seems intuitive, that is to have practice-based evidence strengthen evidence-based medicine. The development of such a system of data collection and dissemination has not developed very rapidly. 
This lecture will describe how the VetCompass Programme has grown and evolved to now provide a world-leading platform for unbiased, invisible data collection...
 SB and DC - Can Practice Based Evidence Complement and Promote EBVM?
Veterinary Evidence TodayEdinburgh, 1-3 November 2016
 

To be able to practice evidence-based veterinary medicine, clinicians need high quality relevant evidence to integrate with their clinical decision making. Rachel's talk explores how relevance is possibly more important than quality as even the best evidence cannot be used if it can't be applied to veterinary practice. 
 RD - Irrelevant, Irrelevant, Irrelevant! Time to change our approach to research?
Veterinary Evidence TodayEdinburgh, 1-3 November 2016

Q&A from Emma's talk at the Veterinary Evidence Today conference, Edinburgh November 3, 2016.

Emma Place gives a talk on how it can be common to get zero or low numbers of hits for a veterinary PICO search in bibliographic databases, particularly if results are screened for clinical trials...
 EP - Literature Searching for Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine: Coping with Zero Hits
Veterinary Evidence TodayEdinburgh, 1-3 November 2016

Q&A from Gillian's talk at the Veterinary Evidence Today conference, Edinburgh November 3, 2016.

This talk will illustrate the highs and lows of using evidence in the healthcare setting, drawing on experience from the National Institue for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) relevant to veterinary medicine...
 GL - Using Evidence: Pitfalls, Practicalities and Positive Benefits
Veterinary Evidence TodayEdinburgh, 1-3 November 2016
 

Q&A from Mark Turner's talk at the Veterinary Evidence Today conference, Edinburgh November 2, 2016.

In human medicine, the management of care to ensure safety for the service-user constitutes an important element of the patient ‘journey.’ The name given to this discipline is patient safety. It is founded upon those elements of good medical practice which help avoid or mitigate human error...
  MT - Mistakes, errors and foul-ups:...
Veterinary Evidence TodayEdinburgh, 1-3 November 2016
     

Q&A from Elizabeth's and Sarah's talk at the Veterinary Evidence Today conference, Edinburgh November 2, 2016.