VetCompass Australia publications and reports
Publications resulting from VetCompass Australia research projects are listed here for convenience. Each can also be found on a separate page on this site, and the full articles can be accessed by clicking on the DOI links.
Dejene, H.; Hennedige, K.M.; Granados-Soler, J.L.; Allavena, R.; Henning, J. Epidemiological analysis of brain tumours in dogs in Australia between 1994 and 2024. Scientific Reports, 2026, 16, 28092. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-64461-4
Roberts, E.; Stevenson, M.A.; Mansfield, C.S. Euthanasia rates and risk factors for euthanasia in dogs diagnosed with diabetes mellitus in Australian primary care practices: 2078 cases (2008-2017). Journal of Small Animal Practice, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsap.70177
Son, Y.; Keller, M.D.; Williamson, P.; Taylor, R.M. Prevalence and Grade of Patellar Luxation in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels Attending Primary-Care Veterinary Practices in Australia. Veterinary Medicine and Science, 2026, 12, no. 4: e71026. https://doi.org/10.1002/vms3.71026
Hardefeldt, L.; Li, K.; Bailey, K., Use of VetCompass Australia data to estimate body weight for antimicrobial stewardship in Australian dogs. Australian Veterinary Journal, 2026, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1111/avj.70099
Horsman, S. Epidemiology and microbial characteristics of canine dermatological conditions in Australia. 2026, PhD Thesis, School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland. https://doi.org/10.14264/13cbe00
Hardefeldt, L.Y.; Scarborough, R.; Hur, B. Retrospective cohort study on the development of keratoconjunctivitis sicca in dogs treated with trimethoprim sulfonamide: a VetCompass Australia study, Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2026, Volume 40, Issue 1, aalaf013. https://doi.org/10.1093/jvimsj/aalaf013
Ngo, E.; Hawke, E.; Owada, K.; Pini, T.; Soares Magalhães, R.; Palmieri, C. Epidemiology of testicular tumour diagnoses in Australian dogs in primary care (1992–2022): A retrospective analysis of electronic patient records. Research in Veterinary Science, 2025, 187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rvsc.2025.105924
Tripovich, J.S..; Gopi, K.; Morgan, G.G.; Hanigan, I.; Johnston, F.H.; McGreevy, P.D.; Quain, A. Feeling the heat: associations among daily ambient temperatures, extreme heat days and risk mortality in Australian dogs from New South Wales (1997–2017). Aust Vet J. 2025, 103, 717–723. https://doi.org/10.1111/avj.13468
Hii A.W.; Gilkerson, J.R.; Bailey, K.E.; Scarborough, R.; Sri, A.E.; Awad, M.; Etheridge, L.; Hardefeldt, L.Y. Outcomes from an intervention study implementing fee-free culture and susceptibility urine testing in dogs and cats. VetRecord 2025, e5500. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.5500
Wong, K.; Williamson, P.; Taylor, R.M. Demography and Causes of Mortality of Pugs Under Primary Veterinary Care in Australia. Veterinary Science 2025, 12, 195. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci12030195
Lau, W.I.; Taylor, R.M. The Prevalence of Corneal Disorders in Pugs Attending Primary Care Veterinary Practices in Australia. Animals 2025, 15, 531. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani15040531
Carney, A.; Williamson, P.; Taylor, R.M. The Demography, Longevity and Mortality of Bullmastiffs Attending Veterinary Practices in Australia. Animals (Basel) 2024, Nov 26, 14(23):3419. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14233419
Hur, B.; Verspoor, K.M.; Baldwin, T.; Hardefeldt, L.Y.; Pfeiffer, C.; Mansfield, C.; Scarborough, R.; Gilkerson, J.R. Using natural language processing and patient journey clustering for temporal phenotyping of antimicrobial therapies for cat bite abscesses. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 2024, 223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2023.106112
Hur, B.; Wang, L.L.; Hardefeldt, L.; Yetisgen, M. Is That the Right Dose? Investigating Generative Language Model Performance on Veterinary Prescription Text Analysis. In Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing 2024, pages 390–397, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.bionlp-1.30.
Joonè, C.J.; Konovalov, D.A. The effect of neuter status on longevity in the Rottweiler dog. Sci Rep 2023, 13, 17845. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45128-w
Murphy, B.J.; Stevenson, M.A.; Mansfield, C.S. Bodyweight and body condition scores of Australian British shorthaired cats, 2008-2017. Front Vet Sci. 2023. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2023.1241080
Owada, K.; Pirashanna, N.; Knibbs, L.; Soares Magalhães, R.; Palmieri, C. Associations between Canine Urothelial Cell Carcinoma and Climate and Environmental Pollution in Queensland, Australia: An Ecological Study. SSRN 2023 Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/
Owada, K.; Palmieri, C.; Hum W.; Gan, T.; Knibbs, L.; Soares Magalhães, R. Geospatial co-distribution of human and canine urothelial cell carcinoma and associated environmental risk factors in Queensland, Australia. ISEE Conference Abstracts 2023, 1. https://doi.org/10.1289/isee.2023.OP-015
Purcell B.; Wiethoelter, A.; Dandrieux, J. Prednisolone prescribing practices for dogs in Australia. PLOS ONE 2023, 18(2). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282440
Sprohnle-Barrera, C. H. Pathological analysis of Splenic Nodular Lesions in Dogs. School of Veterinary Science. UQ eSpace, The University of Queensland. Doctor of Veterinary Clinical Science 2023, 139. UQeSpace. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5454-0470
Tripovich, J.S.; Wilson, B.; McGreevy, P.D.; Quain, A. Incidence and risk factors of heat-related illness in dogs from New South Wales, Australia (1997–2017). Aust Vet J. 2023, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/avj.13296
Velie, B.D.; Milden, T.; Miller, H.; Haase, B. An estimation of osteochondrodysplasia prevalence in Australian Scottish Fold cats: a retrospective study using VetCompass Data. BMC Vet Res 2023, 19, 252. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-023-03811-0
Clark, N.; Proboste, T.; Weerasinghe, G.; Soares Magalhães, R. Near-term forecasting of companion animal tick paralysis incidence: An iterative ensemble model. PLoS computational biology 2022, 18. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009874
Hur, B.; Hardefeldt, L.Y.; Verspoor, K.M.; Baldwin, T.; Gilkerson, J.R. Evaluating the dose, indication and agreement with guidelines of antimicrobial use in companion animal practice with natural language processing. JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance 2022, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/jacamr/dlab194
Hur, B.; Hardefeldt, L.Y.; Verspoor, K.M.; Baldwin, T.; Gilkerson, J.R. Overcoming challenges in extracting prescribing habits from veterinary clinics using big data and deep learning. Australian Veterinary Journal 2022, 100(5), 220-222. https://doi.org/10.1111/avj.13145
Hur, B.; Richards, S.; Scarborough, R.; Browning, G.; Billman-Jacobe, H.; Gilkerson, J.R.; Ierardo, J.; Awad, M.; Chay, R.; Bailey, K.E. Antimicrobial stewardship in companion animal practice: an implementation trial in 135 general practice veterinary clinics. JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance 2022, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/jacamr/dlac015
Kalnins, N.J.; Croton, C.; Haworth, M.; Gibson, J.; Purcell, S.L.; Stewart, A.J. A VetCompass Australia Study of Antimicrobial Use in Dog-to-Dog Bite Wounds (1998–2018). Antibiotics 2022, 11, 55. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11010055
Spröhnle-Barrera, C.H.; McGhie, J.; Allavena, R.E.; Owen, H.C.; Palmieri, C.; Barnes, T.S. Epidemiology and Survival of Dogs Diagnosed with Splenic Lymphoid Hyperplasia, Complex Hyperplasia, Stromal Sarcoma and Histiocytic Sarcoma. Animals 2022, 12, 960. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12080960
Mazeau, L.; Wylie, C.; Boland, L.; Beatty, J.A. A shift towards early-age desexing of cats under veterinary care in Australia. Scientific Reports 2021, 11(1), 811. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79513-6
Renwick, M. S.; Wiethoelter, A.; Mansfield, C. Outbreak investigation of canine acquired idiopathic megaoesophagus in Australia, 2017-2018. International Journal of Epidemiology 2021, 50. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab168.567
Yu, Y.; Wilson, B.; Masters, S.; van Rooy, D.; McGreevy, P.D. Mortality Resulting from Undesirable Behaviours in Dogs Aged Three Years and under Attending Primary-Care Veterinary Practices in Australia. Animals 2021, 11, 493. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11020493
Hardefeldt, L.; Hur, B.; Verspoor, K.; Baldwin, T.; Bailey, K.E.; Scarborough, R.; Richards, S.; Billman-Jacobe, H.; Browning, G.F.; Gilkerson, J. Use of cefovecin in dogs and cats attending first-opinion veterinary practices in Australia. Veterinary Record 2020, 187, e95-e95. https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.105997
Hur, B.; Baldwin, T.; Verspoor, K.; Hardefeldt, L.; Gilkerson, J.R. Domain Adaptation and Instance Selection for Disease Syndrome Classification over Veterinary Clinical Notes. In Proceedings of the 19th SIGBioMed Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing 2020, 156–166, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.bionlp-1.17
Hur, B.; Hardefeldt, L.Y.; Verspoor, K.M.; Baldwin, T.; Gilkerson, J.R. Describing the antimicrobial usage patterns of companion animal veterinary practices; free text analysis of more than 4.4 million consultation records. PLOS ONE 2020, 15, 3. e0230049. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230049
Mansfield, C.; Renwick, M.; Stevenson; M.; Wiethoelter, A. Summary of the University of Melbourne investigation into Megaoesophagus and its association with pet food. 2020. https://www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2018/december/study-confirms-rise-in-megaesophagus-cases-in-dogs-was-linked-to-pet-food
Yoon, S.; Fleeman, L.M.; Wilson, B.J.’ Mansfield, C.S.; McGreevy, P. Epidemiological study of dogs with diabetes mellitus attending primary care veterinary clinics in Australia. Veterinary Record 2020, 187, e22-e22. https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.105467
Renwick, M.; Stevenson, M.A.; Wiethoelter, A.; Mansfield, C. A case-control study to identify risk factors for adult-onset idiopathic megaoesophagus in Australian dogs, 2017–2018. BMC Vet Res 2020, 16, 157. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-020-02376-6
Rynhoud, H.; Croton, C.; Henry, G.; Meler, E.; Gibson, J.S.; Soares Magalhaes, R.J. The effects of oclacitinib treatment on antimicrobial usage in allergic dogs in primary practice: an Australia wide case-control study. BMC Vet Res 2020, 18, 151. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-022-03255-y
McGreevy, P.; Masters, S.; Richards, L.; Soares Magalhaes, R.J.; Peaston, A.; Combs, M.; Irwin, P.J.; Lloyd, J.; Croton, C.; Wylie, C.; Wilson, B. Identification of Microchip Implantation Events for Dogs and Cats in the VetCompass Australia Database. Animals 2019, 9, 423. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9070423
Hur, B.; Hardefeldt, L.Y.; Verspoor, K.M.; Baldwin, T.; Gilkerson, J.R. Using natural language processing and VetCompass to understand antimicrobial usage patterns in Australia. Aust Vet J 2019, 97, 298-300. https://doi.org/10.1111/avj.12836
McGreevy, P.; Thomson, P.; Dhand, N.K.; Raubenheimer, D.; Masters, S.; Mansfield, C.S.; Baldwin, T.; Soares Magalhaes, R.J.; Rand, J.; Hill, P.; Peaston, A.; Gilkerson, J.; Combs, M.; Raidal, R.; Irwin, P.; Irons, P.; Squires, R.; Brodbelt, D.; Hammond, J. VetCompass Australia: A National Big Data Collection System for Veterinary Science. Animals 2017, 7, 74. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani7100074
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