Development of a checklist for the detection of degenerative joint disease-associated pain in cats.

B Duncan X Lascelles Benedict Duncan X Lascelles Margaret E Gruen

Published in: Journal of feline medicine and surgery (2020)

The proposed checklist represents a data-driven approach to construct a screening checklist for DJD pain in cats. This checklist provides a clinically expedient tool likely to increase veterinarians' ability to screen for DJD pain in cats. The identified behaviors comprising the checklist may further provide a foundation for increasing awareness of DJD pain among cat owners.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
pain management
neuropathic pain
spinal cord injury
high throughput
postoperative pain
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