Patient weight has diverse effects on the prescribing of different antibiotics to dogs
Stuart D. Becker,
David M. Hughes
Abstract:IntroductionVarious factors including body weight-associated treatment cost may influence the probability of dispensing antibiotics to dogs in first-opinion practice, but their effect on specific drug choice remains unclear.MethodsMultiple membership regression modeling was used to investigate the probability of dispensing 12 different antibiotics to dogs of different weights in the context of various disease presentations, using anonymized data obtained from electronic health records of 18 clinics between 202… Show more
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