Item generation and design testing of a questionnaire to assess degenerative joint disease-associated pain in cats

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1417-1424

  Zamprogno, Helia ^a   Hansen, Bernie D ^a   Bondell, Howard D ^a   Sumrell, Andrea Thomson ^a   Simpson, Wendy ^a   Robertson, Ian D ^a   Brown, James ^a   Pease, Anthony P ^a   Roe, Simon C ^a   Hardie, Elizabeth M ^a   Wheeler, Simon J ^a   Lascelles, Duncan X ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CHRONIC PAIN; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CATS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; ORTHOPEDICS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERENCE VALUES; RUNNING; VETERINARIANS; WALKING;

ANIMALIA; FELIDAE;

EID: 78649706965     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.71.12.1417     Document Type: Article

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