CLINICAL OUTCOME MEASURES PROGRAM MEASURING YOUR SURGICAL OUTCOMES IN A BUSY PRACTICE

摘要

Although an owner's detailed assessment is routinely relied upon in clinical decision making for the management of many musculoskeletal conditions, there is a lack of valid and reliable tools available to quantify the owner's assessment of pain, function, and quality of life in their pet.Established principles of questionnaire development can be used to develop valid and reliable behavior-based assessment instruments for owner appraisal of chronic pain, function, and quality of life in companion animals.Such instrument will allow surgeons to quickly collect valid and reliable data on the owner's assessment of pre- and post-intervention outcome in their patients, which is invaluable to investigators designing studies, as well as to practitioners that use the results of such studies to guide their clinical decision making.