RCVS Knowledge is publishing a collection of evidence syntheses to support EBVM – what are they called?
Incorrect. BARK stands for Banfield Applied Research and Knowledge, the research division of one of the largest privately owned practices in the USA, who also produce evidence syntheses.
Incorrect. BestBETS for Vets are evidence syntheses produced by the Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine at Nottingham University.
Incorrect. In human medicine, CATS stands for Critically Appraised Topics, a type of evidence synthesis, but in the vet community it was felt it could be confused with the feline species!
Correct. RCVS Knowledge in the UK is creating a global network of vets to collaborate and create an open source repository of Knowledge Summaries to support EBVM.
Incorrect. This is a generic term for a comprehensive summary of all the published evidence on a particular clinical topic.
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What bibliographic database has been shown to have the greatest percentage coverage of journals with veterinary content?
Incorrect. This is the key database for biological sciences, and so while it may give some useful results, it would not be the key database for clinical veterinary practice.
Correct. However CAB Abstracts is costly and so many vets use the related product, VetMed Resource which contains a sub-set of the records in CAB Abstracts, selected for their relevance to vets.
Incorrect. This is the key database for human medicine, though it also covers many of the key peer-reviewed veterinary journals, and will be strong on inter-disciplinary journals in health sciences.
Incorrect. PubMed is a free version of Medline, the key database for human medicine, though it also covers many of the key peer-reviewed veterinary journals, and will be strong on inter-disciplinary journals in health sciences.
Incorrect. VetMed Resource is a related product of CAB Abstracts and so contains a sub-set of the records from the parent database, selected for their relevance to vets. It is much cheaper than CAB Abstracts and so is used by many vets for this reason.
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What does the VetSRev database help you to find?
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Incorrect. Knowledge Summaries is the term used by RCVS Knowledge to describe evidence syntheses generally, not specifically systematic reviews.
Incorrect. The Bibliographic databases such as CAB Abstracts and Medline would do this.
Correct. VetSRev is a freely accessible online database of citations of systematic reviews relevant to veterinary medicine, produced by the Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine at Nottingham University.
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Which of these Boolean searches would recall the most results for this species?
Incorrect. OR does retrieve records containing any of the combined terms, but adding truncation to one of the terms here would give you more results.
Incorrect. AND should be used to combine different concepts as it retrieves only records containing both terms.
Incorrect. NOT excludes records containing an unwanted term, so here only results containing the term cattle would be retrieved.
Correct. OR retrieves records containing any of the terms and so should be used to combine synonyms, and by using the asterix to truncate bovi* you retrieve words with all possible endings such as bovid, bovine and bovidae.
Incorrect. AND should be used to combine different concepts as it retrieves only records containing both terms.
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