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title: Owner-Reported Outcomes in Vet Studies | Animal Health Insights
description: When your patient can't talk, the owner becomes your instrument. Lesley Rausch-Derra on building companion animal study endpoints that hold up.
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# Animal Insights Webinar
### When the Owner Is Your Instrument: Measuring Whether a Treatment Actually Works
In a companion animal study, your patient can’t tell you whether the treatment worked. The only read on whether a drug is doing its job comes from an owner watching at home, which makes your endpoint the most fragile part of the whole study.
Get it wrong, and a drug that genuinely works can still fail to show it.
On June 30, Tommy Jackson sat down with Lesley Rausch-Derra, DVM, a drug developer who has taken owner-reported endpoints through FDA approval, to dig into how you build one that holds up.
**In this session, we covered:**
- What makes an owner questionnaire strong enough to build a study on
- How to keep owner-collected data clean, and get a regulator to accept it
- Where wearables and objective measures actually help, and where they don’t
**Originally aired Tuesday, June 30 | 10:00 AM Central Time | 45 minutes**
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