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There are a number of models of QOL, but they differ substantially in regard to the structure�…

Quality of life (QOL) in animals has been previous-ly reviewed. 1 The information reported
here builds on that review by examining approaches to the assessment of QOL of pet dogs�…

Everyone knows what quality of life is. If one asks a pet owner to evaluate their animal's
quality of life, he or she will invariably undertake the task with no question as to what they�…

Although the term 'quality of life'(QoL) is not unfamiliar to veterinary surgeons, only recently
has the scientific community attempted to measure it in farm and companion animals�…

Quality of life (QoL) is an abstract construct that has been formally recognised and widely
used in human medicine. In recent years, QoL has received increasing attention in animal�…

Objectives: Quality‐of‐life (QOL) assessment is a novel field in veterinary medicine. It shares
similarities with the more established fields of human QOL assessment and animal welfare�…

Objective—To evaluate the ability of a questionnaire regarding the nonphysical aspects of
quality of life (QOL) to differentiate sick and healthy dogs. Animals—120 dogs. Procedure�…

Objective—To develop a preliminary discriminative questionnaire for assessment of
nonphysical aspects of the quality of life (QOL) of pet dogs and evaluate the questionnaire's�…

Our view of which individuals should be the subjects of our moral actions is expanding to
include more people and more species. Animal welfare is the subject of rapidly increasing�…

Society has embraced the human-animal bond with love and respect, requesting
veterinarians to provide more quality-of-life (QoL) measures for pets at the end of life. The�…