Table 4 Correlation between veterinarians’ years of experience and aspects of small animal practise
From: Antimicrobial practices among small animal veterinarians in Greece: a survey
Years of experience | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
1–15 | > 15 | |||
Written antibiotic policy | Yes | 3 | 19 | Fisher Exact p = 0.1887 |
No | 8 | 18 | ||
Weighing animals before prescribing antibiotics | Always (100%) | 8 | 35 | Fisher Exact p = 0.0716 |
Often (100%) | 3 | 2 | ||
Preferred method of selecting antibiotics | Empirical, whilst awaiting antibiogram | 6 | 18 | Fisher Exact p = 0.6657 |
Empirical first, antibiogram if unsuccessful | 1 | 8 | ||
Antibiogram first | 4 | 9 | ||
I rarely use antibiogram | 2 | |||
Postoperative use of antibiotics in clean surgical operations | 0% of cases | 6 | Fisher Exact p = 0.5094 | |
1–10% of cases | 2 | 11 | ||
11–50% of cases | 1 | 4 | ||
51–90% of cases | 2 | 4 | ||
> 90% of cases | 6 | 12 | ||