Client's understanding of instructions for small animals

It is not known how much information clients retrieve from discharge instructions. This study aimed to investigate client's understanding of discharge instructions and influencing factors. Dogs and cats hospitalized for neurological diseases. Clients were presented with questionnaires regarding their pet's disease, diagnostics, treatments, prognosis, and discharge instructions at the time of discharge and 2 weeks later. The same questions were answered by discharging veterinarians at time of discharge. Clients answered additional questions regarding the subjective feelings during the discharge conversation. Data collected included: data describing discharging veterinarian (age, gender, years of clinical experience, specialist status), data describing the client (age, gender, ...

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