Resources to help evaluate a pet's current nutrition and guide nutrition recommendations.

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NUTRITIONAL & CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOLS

Resources to help evaluate a pet's current nutrition and guide nutrition recommendations.

Resources

3D Body Condition Score Tool

Body Condition Assessment

3D Body Condition Score Tool

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

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1 min to 5 min

Feeding for Success: Tips for an Effective Food Elimination Trial

Dermatological Disorders, Gastrointestinal Disorders

Feeding for Success: Tips for an Effective Food Elimination Trial

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

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1 min to 5 min

Components of Nutritional Assessment

Making a Diet Recommendation

Components of Nutritional Assessment

Nutritional assessment uses an iterative process to make specific diet recommendations tailored to individual dogs and cats.

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1 min to 5 min

DISHAA Assessment Tool

Cognition Assessment

DISHAA Assessment Tool

A useful tool to monitor cognitive function in dogs.​

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1 min to 5 min

Epilepsy Questionnaire

Cognition Assessment

Epilepsy Questionnaire

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.

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1 min to 5 min

Purina Fecal Scoring Chart

Fecal Scoring Assessment

Purina Fecal Scoring Chart

The Purina Fecal Scoring Chart is a practical, easy-to-use tool that can help clients describe their pets’ stools.

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1 min to 5 min

Distinguishing Characteristics of Small and Large Bowel Diarrhea Chart

Fecal Scoring Assessment

Distinguishing Characteristics of Small and Large Bowel Diarrhea Chart

A practical, easy-to-use chart that helps localize diarrhea to the small or large intestine.

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1 min to 5 min

Nutritional Assessment Is an Iterative Process: Screening Evaluation

Nutritional Assessment

Nutritional Assessment Is an Iterative Process: Screening Evaluation

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

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1 min to 5 min

Nutritional Assessment Is an Iterative Process: Extended Evaluation

Nutritional Assessment

Nutritional Assessment Is an Iterative Process: Extended Evaluation

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

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1 min to 5 min

Nutrition-Related Risk Factors

Nutritional Assessment

Nutrition-Related Risk Factors

Pets should be evaluated for the presence of nutrition-related risk factors as part of a screening nutritional assessment.

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1 min to 5 min

Taking a Good Diet History

Nutritional Assessment

Taking a Good Diet History

The only way to know what each patient really eats is to ask ꟷ and document the information in the medical record.

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1 min to 5 min

Screening Diet History Form

Nutritional Assessment

Screening Diet History Form

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

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1 min to 5 min