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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về bệnh học thý y được đăng trên tạp chí Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về bệnh thú y đề tài: Canine atopic dermatitis: validation of recorded diagnosis against practice records in 335 insured Swedish dogs. | Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMed Central Research Open Access Canine atopic dermatitis validation of recorded diagnosis against practice records in 335 insured Swedish dogs Ane Nodtvedt 1 Kerstin Bergvall1 Ulf Emanuelson2 and Agneta Egenvall2 Address department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala Sweden and department of Clinical Sciences Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala Sweden Email Ane Nodtvedt - Kerstin Bergvall - kerstinbergvall@ Ulf Emanuelson - Agneta Egenvall - Corresponding author Published 15 June 2006 Received 05 April 2006 Acta Veterinaria Scandinavian 2006 48 8 doi 1751-0147-48-8 Accepted 15 June 2006 This article is available from http content 1 1 8 2006 Nodtvedt et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract A cross-sectional study of insured Swedish dogs with a recorded diagnosis of canine atopic dermatitis CAD was performed. In order to validate the correctness of this specific diagnosis in the insurance database medical records were requested by mail from the attending veterinarians. All dogs with a reimbursed claim for the disease during 2002 were included in the original study sample n 373 . Medical records were available for 335 individuals response rate . By scrutinizing the submitted records it was determined that all dogs had been treated for dermatologic disease and that 327 could be considered to have some allergic skin disease. However as information regarding dietary trial testing was .