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Measuring health‐related quality of life in companion animals
Author(s) -
Reid Jacky
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1136/vr.i4280
Subject(s) - citation , library science , companion animal , computer science , veterinary medicine , medicine
I READ with great interest Chris Rundfeldt's excellent editorial entitled ‘Quality of life of dogs with chronic epilepsy’ (VR , June 25, 2016, vol 178, pp 650-651), in which he highlighted the importance of patient-reported outcomes (PROs), specifically health-related quality of life (HRQL) measures, in human clinical studies. Measuring the impact of disease and its treatment from the patient's perspective in this way is …