Issues associated with the application to veterinarians of a mailed questionnaire regarding lower respiratory-tract disease in racehorses

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 161-170

  Christley, R M ^a   Rose, R J ^a   Hodgson, D R ^a   Reid, S W J ^b,c   Evans, S ^a   Bailey, C ^a   Hodgson, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Horse; Questionnaire; Respiratory tract; Survey

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PNEUMONIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCOTLAND; VETERINARIANS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0034632759     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(00)00151-3     Document Type: Article

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