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likelihood of recurrence in dogs with various spinal cord injuries, only a few studies 7–9 have examined the effects of spinal cord injury on quality of life in dogs. At least part of the reason for the low numbers of studies on the effects of spinal cord
Quality of life has become an important topic in companion animal practice in recent years as dogs and cats are living longer lives and increasingly being thought of as family members. However, there still remains much debate on what constitutes
questionnaire asked respondents to mark an × on a 10-cm VAS to indicate their dog's overall QOL over the past week. The left-hand limit of the VAS was labeled “worst possible quality of life,” and the right-hand limit was labeled “best possible quality of life
choosing a course of diagnostic testing and treatment. When considering all of these factors, pet owners are evaluating their Family Quality of Life (FQoL). FQoL in human health has been described as the “dynamic sense of well-being of the family
profession. Professional quality of life is a measure of an individual's well-being, specifically in relation to the person's work in helping others, and is made up of 3 components: compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress. 13
FETCH Functional Evaluation of Canine Health HCM Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy HRQOL Health-related quality of life QOL Quality of life RCM Restrictive cardiomyopathy UCM Unclassified cardiomyopathy a. Questionnaire available upon request
data could be used to support the veterinarian's discussion of cancer care with animal owners. ABBREVIATION QOL Quality of life a. Copies of the survey instrument are available from the corresponding author upon request. b. Medcalc
veterinarian workforce, more than 90% of whom are private practice veterinarians in the US, 11 is important to producing and delivering high-quality animal health-care services to animal owners. Poor professional quality of life could lead to lower
medicine.) Human medicine has been forced by public pressure to worry about quality of life as well as its prolongation. Indeed, the movement on behalf of voluntary euthanasia, or choosing to die, is a direct result of society's rejection of the medical
been given to health-related quality of life (HRQoL) as a treatment outcome measure in both human and veterinary medicine, and several veterinary studies 15 – 25 have incorporated specific quality-of-life measuring tools for various canine diseases
