EBVM toolkit

Tools and resources to help you find and appraise the evidence to answer your clinical questions and integrate evidence into your practice.

The ‘5 As’ model is a framework that helps to structure the process of finding evidence to support veterinary care and using this evidence effectively.

There are five main steps in the 5 As model:

• Ask: convert your information needs into answerable questions.
• Acquire: track down the best evidence to help answer the questions.
• Appraise: review the evidence to ensure it is relevant and valid.
• Apply: use the evidence in clinical practice.
• Assess: evaluate the impact of the evidence on practice

The EBVM toolkit includes resources and checklists to help you with the first three steps:

• asking an answerable clinical question
• finding the best available evidence to answer your question
• appraising the evidence to ensure it is relevant and reliable.

Resources to help you with the final two steps can be found by following the links below

• Appling the evidence in clinical practice  Contextualised care 
• Assessing impact of the evidence on practice Quality improvement.