Audience:
Veterinary Clinicians
Veterinary Social Work Service
Occupational Health Nurse
Veterinary Physical Therapy
Fourth Year Veterinary Students heading for internships in Small Animal Medicine
Veterinary Interns and Residents
Others who need to keep up to date in various aspects of human medicine

Service: receive via email EvidenceAlerts from Stat!Ref automatically. See the Stat!Ref homepage for information about how to sign up.

Why you should take time to learn about this service: A 1.5 hour introduction, highly recommended, Webinar by Dr. Brian Haynes of McMaster University will provide background to this exciting new service.

Where to sign up: Enter the era of “push diffusion” in EVBM by signing up for EvidenceAlerts in your area(s) of interest on Stat!Ref on the databases page under Veterinary Medicine.

For more information: Ann Viera annviera at dot utk dot edu or 974-9015.

Sample EvidenceAlerts in Occupational and Environmental Health:

Supported employment: randomised controlled trial.Br J Psychiatry. 2010 May;196(5):404-11.
Interventions for preventing occupational irritant hand dermatitis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010
Jun 16;6:CD004414.

Sample EvidenceAlerts for: Musculoskeletal

The Artelon CMC spacer compared with tendon interposition arthroplasty.
Acta Orthop. 2010 Apr;81(2):239-46.
Multidisciplinary rehabilitation after primary total knee arthroplasty: a randomized controlled study of its effects on functional capacity and quality of life.
Clin Rehabil. 2010 May;24(5):398-411. Epub 2010 Mar 30.
Heat or cold packs for neck and back strain: a randomized controlled trial of efficacy.
Acad Emerg Med. 2010 May;17(5):484-9.
A systematic review of pharmacologic treatments of pain after spinal cord injury.
Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2010 May;91(5):816-31.