ReviewVeterinary journal (London, England : 1997)2015
Quality of life assessment in domestic dogs: An evidence-based rapid review.
Review in Veterinary journal (London, England : 1997), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.
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Who cites it
54 citing papers in PubMed.
- Short- and long-term outcome and quality of life assessment in dogs undergoing transvenous coil embolization of congenital intrahepatic portosystemic shunts.Veterinary surgery : VS · 2026Article
- The Dog Aging Project End of Life Survey reveals owners' perceptions of canine death and highlights areas to improve client education.Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association · 2026Article
- Development of a health-related questionnaire for quality-of-life assessment in dogs with chronic enteropathy.Journal of veterinary internal medicine · 2026Article
- Development of a health-related quality-of-life assessment tool for equines with pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction.Equine veterinary journal · 2026Article
- Assessment of the Awareness and Use of Quality of Life Tools in Small Animal Practices in Germany.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Chronic sequelae and owner burdens are common following canine intervertebral disc disease.The Veterinary record · 2025Article
- Instruments to Assess Disease-Specific Quality of Life in Dogs: A Scoping Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- The Demography, Longevity and Mortality of Bullmastiffs Attending Veterinary Practices in Australia.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Life with pets study: lower income veterinary clients' perception of pets' quality of life.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- Chronic enteropathy in dogs affects the quality of life in both dogs and their owners-are veterinarians proficient in handling the caregiver burden?Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- Recommendations for Designing, Conducting and Reporting Clinical Observational Studies in Homeopathic Veterinary Medicine.Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2023Review
- Quality-of-Life Assessments in Zoo Animals: Not Just for the Aged and Charismatic.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
- Development and Validation of a Canine Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire and a Human-Canine Bond Questionnaire for Use in Veterinary Practice.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- 2023 AAFP/IAAHPC feline hospice and palliative care guidelines.Journal of feline medicine and surgery · 2023Review
- Generating Detailed Spectral Libraries for Canine Proteomes Obtained from Serum and Urine.Scientific data · 2023Article
- Awareness and Use of Canine Quality of Life Assessment Tools in UK Veterinary Practice.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Broadening the Veterinary Consultation: Dog Owners Want to Talk about More than Physical Health.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- End-of-life decisions: A focus group study with German health professionals from human and veterinary medicine.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Article
- A Qualitative Exploration of UK Leisure Horse Owners' Perceptions of Equine Wellbeing.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Development and initial validation of a dog quality of life instrument.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Assessment of quality of life (QoL) is an important, increasingly popular outcome measure in veterinary research and practice, particularly in dogs. In humans, QoL is commonly assessed by self-reporting and since this is not possible for animals, it is crucial that instruments designed to measure QoL are tested for reliability and validity. Using a systematic, replicable literature search strategy, the aim of this study was to find published, peer-reviewed instruments for QoL assessment in dogs and to assess the quality of these. CAB Abstracts and PubMed were searched in July 2013 using terms relevant to dogs, wellbeing and QoL. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied. When instruments were not published in full, authors were contacted to obtain them. Criteria were applied to assess the quality, validity and reliability of the 52 instruments obtained. Twenty-seven additional instruments used in peer-reviewed publications were not included because they had not been fully described in the publication or were not provided by authors upon request. Most of the instruments reviewed (48/52) were disease-specific rather than generic. Only four publications provided a definition of QoL or wellbeing. Only 11/52 instruments demonstrated evidence of assessing reliability or validity, and the quality of these instruments was variable. Many novel, unvalidated instruments have been generated and applied as clinical outcomes before it was known whether they measured QoL. This rapid review can be used to identify currently available and validated canine QoL instruments, and to assess the validity and quality of new or existing instruments.
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