Construction and validation of a risk-screening questionnaire for the investigation of recurrent airway obstruction in epidemiological studies of horse populations in Great Britain

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 8-21

  Hotchkiss, Joel W ^a   Reid, Stuart W ^a,b   Christley, Robert ^c  

^a Faculty of Veterinary Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Veterinary Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Delphi; Diagnosis; Horse; Questionnaire; Recurrent airway obstruction (RAO)

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DELPHI STUDY; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION STUDY;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 33744544236     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2006.01.001     Document Type: Article

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