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When is the right time?
Author(s) -
Reid Jacky,
Nolan Andrea,
Scott Marian
Publication year - 2018
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.k274
Subject(s) - measure (data warehouse) , safeguard , quality (philosophy) , quality of life (healthcare) , medicine , computer science , law , nursing , data mining , political science , philosophy , epistemology
Veterinary medicine is veering further towards prolongation of life at all costs, without the safeguard of being able to robustly measure quality of life. Jacky Reid, Andrea Nolan and Marian Scott discuss major steps forward in the ability to measure changes in health‐related quality of life.