Study database
A recommendation from a professional body or authority. It blends evidence and expert judgement, and the two can be told apart.
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Overall accuracy of the basal ACTH value lies, depending on the probability before testing, between 88 and 92 per cent in autumn and between 70 and 86 per cent outside autumn; because thresholds allowing for every influence cannot be set workably, the guideline recommends grey zones, and it notes that ACTH is not an independent predictor of laminitis.
HOHorse
Updated consensus statement from an expert panel: it redefines the reference method for detecting the organism, places PCR and serology within outbreak management and highlights the role of carrier states in transmission, without collecting data of its own.
HOHorse
Consensus statement that revises the definition of the mild to moderate form after ten years of new literature and describes the understanding of the disease as markedly changed.
HOHorse
The consensus statement puts insulin dysregulation and not sugar at the centre of endocrine laminitis, puts the nutrient loss at 24 to 43 per cent for seven to sixteen hours of soaking, names under 10 per cent non-structural carbohydrate for the feed and advises no more than one to two hours in warm weather.
MUMultiple species
The recommendation recasts the egg count reduction test on four points: paired comparison of the same animals rather than two groups, a minimum number of eggs actually counted rather than a mean value per gram, flexible group size, and thresholds matched to host, active substance and parasite; it measures efficacy at group level, not the diagnostic validity of a single sample.
HOHorse
Consensus statement that formally separates two entities gathered under a single name, disease of the squamous mucosa and disease of the glandular mucosa, and names gastroscopy as the only method allowing an established diagnosis.
SPSpecies-independent
Revised reporting guideline with 21 items, split into an indispensable core of ten items and a supplementary set; the authors note that the hoped-for improvement in reporting quality has failed to materialise since 2010.
SPSpecies-independent
Instrument derived from the Cochrane tool, with ten items covering selection, performance, detection, attrition and reporting bias, adapted to the particularities of animal experiments.
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