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Theriogenology and developments in epidemiology: future opportunities?

Gay JM

AAHP Field Disease Investigation Unit, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, POB 646610, Pullman, WA 99164-6610, USA. jmgay@vetmed.wsu.edu

The concepts and methods of the different branches of epidemiology, particularly clinical epidemiology, have much to offer the discipline of theriogenology. As with theriogenology, epidemiologic methods evolve when technological innovation enables new approaches to old problems. The recent emergence, from clinical epidemiology, of the evidence-based medicine paradigm in human medicine, and the associated developments of systematic reviews and meta-analysis, present new opportunities for collaboration and synergy between the two disciplines.

Published 19 July 2006 in Theriogenology, 66(3): 526-33.
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