NUTRITIONAL & CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOLS

This short, screening diet history form is a practical, easy-to-use document that can help clients provide important information about their pets’ diets.

Although there are many benefits to maintaining a healthy weight in pets, many owners do not understand what a healthy weight is or the benefits for pets.

In this brief video, Martha G. Cline, DVM, DACVIM (Nutrition), provides us with an overview of this practical tool, used by veterinary professionals, for assessing and monitoring the body condition of dogs and cats.

A 3D interactive tool for easy body condition assessment of dogs and cats.

Share these tips with pet owners to help them understand what makes a food elimination trial successful.

Learn why effective communication about pet nutrition is essential for improving pet health outcomes, building client trust, and fostering collaboration between pet owners and veterinary health care teams.

Learn how agenda setting, a specific communication strategy, can improve client satisfaction, their adherence to veterinary recommendations, and appointment efficiency.

Hospitalized patients are at risk for malnutrition, whether they are experiencing an acute or chronic condition. Recognition and treatment of malnutrition should be prioritized in hospitalized dogs and cats to improve health outcomes. 

This screening form provides a practical, easy-to-use questionnaire that can help clients provide important information for the diagnosis of idiopathic epilepsy in dogs.

Muscle condition scoring is a hands-on method for evaluating lean body mass that can be used as part of nutritional assessments.

Assessing a patient’s nutritional status is a recurring process that entails more than taking a diet history.

An extended nutritional evaluation is important for pets at risk for nutrition-related problems.