Many national breed clubs maintain
health registries through the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals (OFA), the Institute for Genetic Disease Control (GDC; which has now merged with the OFA), the Canine Health Information Center (CHIC), or though their own club or health foundation.
Not exact matches
Pia Glatz, M.D., of the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and coauthors conducted a nationwide study of more than 2 million children born in Sweden from 1973
through 1993 by using a variety of national
health care databases, school achievement
registries, and the military conscription register.
The best way to work with this information is
through a breed club supported open
health registry.
Although UKC registers more breeds, AKC is larger and has broader impact on the world of purebred dogs
through its extensive network of education and legislative coordinators, free education program for students, contributions to canine
health, administration of a microchip identification
registry, and involvement in more than 15,000 dog shows, tests, and trials each year.
He is director at large of The Cat Fanciers» Association (CFA), a nonprofit organization that has the largest
registry of pedigreed cats in the world, and a board member with Winn Foundation, which strives to enhance the relationship between cats and humans by fostering improvements in feline
health through research and education.
This is facilitated
through open
health databases and genetic
registries.
People: 3918 cases (2269 high - functioning; 1649 have low - functioning) aged 17 and younger with ASD identified from the Stockholm Youth Cohort
through data - linkage with
health and service
registries in Stockholm County.
To improve self - management in diabetes populations, we plan to test proven population - based methods that will take into account these patients» needs to overly maintain self - reliance, such as the use of
registries for population - based tracking to prevent patients from «falling
through the cracks,» the use of telephone contacts or appointments, and the use of proactive contacts, surveillance, and reminders to keep disengaged patients involved in their own
health care.
As for limitations, this study relied on self - report to obtain cost data, but this was regarded as acceptable against the background that studies have demonstrated high convergence between
registry data and
health economic estimates collected
through self - report.37 A second limitation was that we did not include a treatment arm of face - to - face CBT, which constitutes a highly important comparison treatment.