Preventive healthcare visits and services have outperformed the historical averages for the practice.
The conference speakers discuss successful strategies for effectively leveraging the new guidelines to increase
preventive healthcare visits and improve the lives of your patients.
Research with pet owners shows they are willing to make changes and embrace
preventive healthcare visits if they know it will benefit their pets.
Research also shows that opportunities to increase
preventive healthcare visits lie within simple enhancements in everyday practice and, as a profession, we can do a better job of helping pet owners understand the importance and value of preventive pet healthcare.
Not exact matches
Preventive healthcare saves money in the long run and helps prevent costly emergency
visits.
Visiting a veterinarian regularly and practicing active
preventive healthcare is a great way to enhance that relationship,» said Dr. DeHaven.
Veterinary professionals, academia and industry leaders come together to ensure pets receive the
preventive healthcare they deserve through regular
visits to a veterinarian.
A 2011 survey of veterinary professionals revealed that declining pet
healthcare visits are recognized as a problem and identified communication issues and the education of the value of
preventive healthcare to pet owners as factors that impact the downturn.
If your pet is a therapy cat or dog who often
visit nursing homes, hospitals or children's centers, have your vet conduct a thorough examination and develop a
preventive healthcare program, with an emphasis on preventing diseases which may be transmitted to humans.
Postnatal home
visiting programme to the child's second birthday including: the MECSH structured programme; well - child checks; proactive (rather than needs - based)
preventive and anticipatory primary
healthcare and health education; and standardised focus modules aligned with primary outcomes;