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SVEPM 2020 — Resilience and community support in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: The Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Annual Conference, extraordinarily held online (2021)
Journal Article
Dórea, F. C., Vergne, T., Brennan, M., van Schaik, G., Barrett, D., Carmo, L. P., Robinson, P. A., Brodbelt, D. C., & McIntyre, K. M. (2021). SVEPM 2020 — Resilience and community support in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: The Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Annual Conference, extraordinarily held online. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 191, Article 105368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2021.105368

What outcomes should be measured in feline chronic kidney disease treatment trials? Establishing a core outcome set for research (2021)
Journal Article
Doit, H., Dean, R., Duz, M., Finch, N., & Brennan, M. (2021). What outcomes should be measured in feline chronic kidney disease treatment trials? Establishing a core outcome set for research. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 192, Article 105348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2021.105348

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is an important cause of feline morbidity and mortality. There is currently no agreement on which outcomes are most important in CKD treatment trials to assist evidence-based decision making.

Core Outcome Sets (COSs) o... Read More about What outcomes should be measured in feline chronic kidney disease treatment trials? Establishing a core outcome set for research.

Assessing the feasibility of retrospective and prospective clinical audit in farm animal veterinary practice (2021)
Journal Article
Waine, K., White, C., Dean, R. S., Hudson, C., Huxley, J. N., & Brennan, M. L. (2021). Assessing the feasibility of retrospective and prospective clinical audit in farm animal veterinary practice. Veterinary Sciences, 8(4), Article 62. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci8040062

As a quality improvement tool, clinical audit has been extensively described in the medical literature. There is scant literature on the use of clinical audit in the farm animal veterinary setting. This study describes the process and feasibility of... Read More about Assessing the feasibility of retrospective and prospective clinical audit in farm animal veterinary practice.

A systematic review of the quality of life assessment tools for cats in the published literature (2021)
Journal Article
Doit, H., Dean, R. S., Duz, M., & Brennan, M. L. (2021). A systematic review of the quality of life assessment tools for cats in the published literature. Veterinary Journal, 272, Article 105658. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2021.105658

Quality of life (QoL) is an important parameter to assess in cats, as it can be pivotal to important decision-making. Research reports that owners of cats with heart disease would trade longevity for QoL, and treatment associated improvement in QoL i... Read More about A systematic review of the quality of life assessment tools for cats in the published literature.

Promoting Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine through the online resource ‘EBVM Learning’: User feedback (2021)
Journal Article
Sellers, E., Baillie, S., Dean, R., Warman, S., Janicke, H., Arlt, S. P., Boulton, C., Brennan, M., Brodbelt, D., Brown, F., Buckley, L., Du, M., Gallop, E., Goran, G., Grindlay, D. J., Haddock, L., Ireland, J., McGowan, C., Moberly, H. K., Place, E., …Verheyen, K. (2021). Promoting Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine through the online resource ‘EBVM Learning’: User feedback. Veterinary Evidence, 6(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.18849/ve.v6i1.392

‘EBVM Learning’ is a freely available resource created in 2015 by an international team with the support of RCVS Knowledge. The resource comprises a series of online modules teaching the fundamental concepts of evidence-based veterinary medicine (EBV... Read More about Promoting Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine through the online resource ‘EBVM Learning’: User feedback.

Cattle farmers’ perception of biosecurity measures and the main predictors of behaviour change: The first European-wide pilot study (2020)
Journal Article
Renault, V., Damiaans, B., Humblet, M., Jiménez Ruiz, S., García Bocanegra, I., Brennan, M. L., Casal, J., Petit, E., Pieper, L., Simoneit, C., Tourette, I., Wuyckhuise, L., Sarrazin, S., Dewulf, J., & Saegerman, C. (2021). Cattle farmers’ perception of biosecurity measures and the main predictors of behaviour change: The first European-wide pilot study. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 68(6), 3305-3319. https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.13935

The importance of biosecurity as a strategy to prevent and control infectious diseases has increased substantially over the last few decades. Several studies have reported a low implementation level of biosecurity measures (BSM), particularly in catt... Read More about Cattle farmers’ perception of biosecurity measures and the main predictors of behaviour change: The first European-wide pilot study.