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Outcomes Based Medicine in Veterinary Surgery: Getting Hard Measures of Subjective Outcomes
Author(s) -
BROWN DOROTHY CIMINO
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
veterinary surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.652
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1532-950X
pISSN - 0161-3499
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-950x.2007.00269.x
Subject(s) - citation , medicine , veterinary medicine , library science , computer science
MAJOR PROBLEM facing veterinary surgeons is the lack of high-quality evidence available for optimal decision making. Ideally, fair and direct head-tohead comparisons of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions would allow us to make well-informed decisions for our patients. This type of information, however, is rarely available for many reasons, not the least of which is a lack of consensus about what it is exactly we wish to compare. Ideally, comparisons would be made based on clinically relevant, widely available, easy to use, well validated, and objective outcome measures. Unfortunately, no such measures currently exist and investigators are forced to choose which attributes of an outcome measure