Health Considerations for the HQHVSN Surgeon

White, Sara

doi:10.1002/9781119646006.ch31

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“…While the concept of access to care is multifaceted and can include accessibility and the lack of available services in certain geographic locations, as well as other spatial sociodemographic barriers [11], one important way to define accessible care is care that can be obtained within a client's means [12]. Because the client is primarily responsible for the full cost of veterinary care and more intervention is often more costly and time consuming, the availability of options for care on a spectrum is a way to reduce the financial burden on clients and improve access to care [6].…”

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Veterinarians’ Self-Reported Behaviors and Attitudes toward Spectrum of Care Practices

Dolan,

Slater

2024

Animals

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Access to veterinary care for animal owners is an important part of keeping animals healthy and keeping pets and people together whenever that is appropriate. Insufficient financial and other resources to allocate to veterinary care are major barriers for pet owners to receiving preventative, sick, and emergency services. The veterinary community has begun to incorporate offering a range of diagnostic and treatment options more intentionally in response to clients’ inability to pay and to a lesser extent to mitigate other barriers to care. Many veterinarians are nonetheless oriented toward providing specialized and more sophisticated care based on their training. This study sought to identify the self-reported behaviors, knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of veterinarians about offering a spectrum of care options (SoC) to clients. The finding that many reported offering SoC is encouraging. However, veterinarians who report comfort and confidence in a variety of aspects of clinical care were most likely to offer SoC. Practitioners in the field for 20 or more years were less likely to offer SoC to clients with financial limitations. Rural veterinarians were more likely to offer SoC to any client compared to urban veterinarians. These results provide a point of reference and potential focus for veterinarians who are not currently offering SoC as well as an exploration of veterinarians’ reported knowledge, behaviors, attitudes, perceptions, and concerns about SoC.

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confidence: 99%