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Paper reviews Biomedical Scent Detection Dogs: Would They Pass as a Health Technology? Catherine Reeve; Mirkka Koivusalo ..................................................................... 1-7 Research papers Impact of therapy dog visits on outpatient nurse welfare and job satisfaction Stephanie Clark; Jessica Smidt; Brent Bauer .......................................................... 8-15

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  • Impact of therapy dog visits on outpatient nurse welfare and job satisfaction 

    Clark, Stephanie D.; Smidt, Jessica M.; Bauer, Brent A. (Universidad de Córdoba, Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Animal, 2018)
    Interaction with a therapy dog can decrease blood pressure, heart rate, and improve heart rate variability; due to these responses, it suggests that human-animal interaction can alleviate the stress response. This study ...
  • Biomedical Scent Detection Dogs: Would They Pass as a Health Technology? 

    Koivusalo, Mirkka; Reeve, Catherine (Universidad de Córdoba, Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Animal, 2018)
    Biomedical scent detection dogs identify the scent profiles of diseases, such as cancer, diabetes or pathogenic micro-organisms. What the field of biomedical scent detection has been lacking, however, is the assessment of ...