Veterinary-care events and costs over a 5-year follow-up period for warmblooded riding horses with or without previously recorded locomotor problems in Sweden

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 130-143

  Egenvall, Agneta ^a   Bonnett, Brenda ^b   Wattle, Ove ^a   Emanuelson, Ulf ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age; Cost; Diagnosis; Gender; Insurance data; Lameness; Locomotor; Orthopaedic; Region; Retrospective cohort study

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH INSURANCE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; MALE; SWEDEN; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; MALE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; SWEDEN; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 37349114840     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2007.06.008     Document Type: Article

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