How effective are trained dogs at alerting their owners to changes in blood glycaemic levels?: Variations in performance of glycaemia alert dogs

AIMS: Domestic dogs are trained to a wide variety of roles including an increasing number of medical assistance tasks. Glycaemia alert dogs are reported to greatly improve the quality of life of owners living with Type 1 diabetes. Research into their value is currently sparse, on small numbers of do...

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Autores principales: Rooney, Nicola J., Guest, Claire M., Swanson, Lydia C. M., Morant, Steve V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6333402/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30645613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210092