Audience: UTK Veterinary College

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From the introduction: "In short, it is rarely a true lack of evidence that precludes exotic animal veterinarians from practicing EBM; rather, it is a perceived lack of readily accessible, clinically applicable scientific evidence. The goal of this article is to help lower the barriers in obtaining, assessing, and applying the best-available evidence in clinical exotic animal practice." From the conclusion: "The expertise required to search, assess, and integrate new information rapidly improves with practice, and the evidence-based clinical practice learning becomes more rewarding over time."

Effective information retrieval of the zoological medicine literature demands searching multiple databases, conference proceedings, and organization websites using a wide variety of keywords and controlled vocabulary.