Assessing pet owners' knowledge and comprehension of veterinary medical terminology.

Background: Veterinary communication plays a key role in client satisfaction, patient outcomes and clinician wellbeing. Communication assessment tools can help to facilitate improvement strategies.

Methods: Over a 5-month period, pet owners attending a small animal hospital were asked to complete a survey assessing their understanding of commonly used veterinary terms and phrases, either online or in paper format.

Evaluation of Urinary Big Endothelin-1 in Feline Spontaneous CKD.

The endothelin-1 (ET-1) system has been implicated in the development and progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD). No information on big ET-1 in feline urine is available. The purpose of this study was to evaluate if urinary big endothelin-1 (bigET-1) is associated with feline CKD.