Association between costly veterinary-care events and 5-year survival of Swedish insured warmblooded riding horses

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 122-136

  Egenvall, Agneta ^a   Bonnett, Brenda N ^b   Olson, Pekka ^c   Penell, Johanna ^a   Emanuelson, Ulf ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c Agria Insurance   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Age; Diagnosis; Exponential regression; Gender; Region; Retrospective cohort study

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; MALE; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL; SWEDEN; TIME; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; COHORT STUDIES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; MALE; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

AGRIA; ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 33748317793     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2006.07.002     Document Type: Article

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