Table 1.
From a random sample of 500 companion animal cases of diarrhea, the accuracy of the text miner for classifying the cases as positive or negative for ‘had diagnostic testing’ when compared to a manual review of the medical records serving as the external standard.
Table 2.
From a random sample of 500 companion animal cases of diarrhea, the accuracy of the text miner for classifying the cases as positive or negative for ‘had an etiological diagnosis made’ when compared to a manual review of the medical records serving as the external standard.
Table 3.
From a random sample of 500 companion animal cases of diarrhea, the accuracy of the text miner for classifying the cases as positive or negative for ‘had an antimicrobial administered, dispensed or prescribed’ when compared to a manual review of the medical records serving as the external standard.
Figure 1.
From a random sample of 500 companion animal cases with diarrhea, a flow diagram describing the proportion of cases that had laboratory diagnostics performed, had an etiological diagnosis made, and were administered, prescribed or dispensed antimicrobials.
Table 4.
Distribution of a sample of companion animal cases with diarrhea by the stated etiological diagnosis (n = 500).
Table 5.
Distribution of antimicrobials used by the veterinary practices in the treatment of companion animal diarrhea cases (n = 15,928) in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Figure 2.
Changes in the proportion of companion animal diarrhea cases (n = 15,928) treated with any antimicrobial, nitroimidazole class and penicillin class from January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2010.
Figure 3.
From 15,928 cases of companion animals with diarrhea, scattergrams of the counts of cases treated with B-lactam inhibitors and cephalosporins in each yearly quarter from January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2010.