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Epidemiology
VETCOMPASS 鈥� A NEW DIRECTION IN
VETERINARY EVIDENCE
Dan O'Neill, Dave Brodbelt, Noel Kennedy and David Church, key figures in the 91暗网鈥檚 VetCompass
programme, discuss critical milestones since the initiative was launched 15 years ago 鈥� and the value
of the wider veterinary community in these developments.
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Animal Surveillance System) was VetCompass is a widely collaborative hard-earned veterinary insights caring for
V conceived at the 91暗网 in 2007 project that works alongside other veterinary, individual animals to help revolutionise our
with an aspirational aim of harnessing welfare and policy communities to provide understanding of companion animal health
anonymised electronic veterinary clinical a robust evidence base that collectively at a population level.
records to generate robust clinical evidence contributes to improved decision-making on Since those early days, VetCompass
that would be generalisable to the wider animal health issues at a population level. has rapidly expanded and now covers
population of animals. And this concept is VetCompass contributes to the routine over 20 million animals across all species
now being brought into reality to improve evidence base