Development and validation of a bilingual questionnaire for measuring udder health related management practices on dairy farms

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 95, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 74-85

  Dufour, Simon ^a,b   Barkema, Herman W ^a,c   DesCôteaux, Luc ^a,b   DeVries, Trevor J ^a,d   Dohoo, Ian R ^a,e   Reyher, Kristen ^a,e   Roy, Jean Philippe ^a,b   Scholl, Daniel T ^a,b  

^a Canadian Bovine Mastitis Research Network   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cattle; Management factors; Mastitis; Questionnaire; Repeatability; Translation; Validation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; UDDER; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DAIRYING; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MULTILINGUALISM; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSLATING;

BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 77951130971     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2010.02.018     Document Type: Article

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