New tools for evaluating quality of life for cats, dogs with heart disease
Monday, June 25, 2012 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
(Phys.org) -- Quality of life has become accepted as an important predictor of survival among human patients with heart failure. Now veterinarians at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University have developed two surveys that may prove to be similarly useful in evaluating the quality of life for dogs and cats with heart disease.