Factors influencing recovery from and duration of lameness in Michigan (USA) horses

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 127-138

  Ross, Whitney A ^a   Kaneene, John B ^b   Caron, John P ^b   Gallagher, Kenneth F ^b   Gardiner, Joseph C ^c  

^a Kent County Health Department   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cox's proportional hazards regression analysis; Horse; Lameness; Logistic regression analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RANDOMIZATION; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MICHIGAN; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0033620678     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(99)00028-8     Document Type: Article

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