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. 2018 Feb 22;32(2):743–751. doi: 10.1111/jvim.15048

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Proportion of different final decisions to treat (DTT) when performing microscopy (A) or culture (B). Decision to treat in dogs suspected of urinary tract infection in Danish private veterinary practices. Appropriate final DTT was: 1) prescribing antibiotics in the presence of clinically relevant bacteriuria on reference quantitative bacterial culture (QBC) or 2) not prescribing antibiotics in the absence of clinically relevant bacteriuria on reference QBC. Under‐treatment was not prescribing antibiotics when clinically relevant bacteriuria was found on reference QBC. Over‐treatment was prescribing antibiotics when sterile or clinically unimportant bacteriuria was found on reference QBC. (A) Proportions in cases including microscopy in the diagnostic work‐up (n = 121) compared to cases without microscopy included (n = 30). (B) Proportions in cases including bacterial culture in the diagnostic work‐up (n = 85) compared to cases without culture included (n = 67).