SPVS is leading a ground-breaking new project which aims to find out how veterinary surgeons are treating a range of clinical conditions.

Two hundred practitioners are being sought to provide details of how they address clinical conditions in three study areas: small animal, equine and farm animal, on a new website: www.howdoido.org. The findings, which will be made anonymous, will eventually form the basis of a clinical benchmarking process, which will tie in with the growing trend towards evidence-based medicine.

SPVS's objective is to understand and support how clinicians work in practice and approach particular clinical cases. The Society is working alongside Dr Mark Johnson who carried out the Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Equine Fatalities.

SPVS Junior Vice President Jacqui Molyneux said: "This is an exciting new study which will shed a lot of light on what we as clinicians are doing in practice with the eventual aim of developing a clinical benchmarking process.

"The project however will only be worthwhile if a significant number of practitioners take part, so we're encouraging vets to visit the website and find out more.  It will take no longer than ten minutes to fill in each clinical case."

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