Completeness of metabolic disease recordings in Nordic national databases for dairy cows

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 105, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 25-37

  Espetvedt, M N ^a   Wolff, C ^b   Rintakoski, S ^c   Lind, A ^d   Osteras O ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dairy cows; Data validity; Databases; Metabolic; Nordic

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; FINLAND; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KETOACIDOSIS; METABOLIC DISORDER; PARTURIENT PARESIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SCANDINAVIA; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FINLAND; KETOSIS; METABOLIC DISEASES; PARTURIENT PARESIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RECORDS AS TOPIC; SCANDINAVIA; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

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EID: 84860247096     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.02.011     Document Type: Article

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