Table 4.
Veterinary interactions in electronic patient records concurrent with 365 individual animal microchip implantations in 1000 randomly selected results to the search term ‘microc’ with a valid microchip number (implantations = 246) and an invalid microchip number (implantations = 119).
| Concurrent Events | Valid | Percent of Valid | Invalid | Percent of Invalid | Total | Dogs | Percent of Dogs | Cats | Percent of Cats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vaccination | 152 | 61.79% | 84 | 70.59% | 236 | 179 | 79.20% | 57 | 41.00% |
| spay | 29 | 11.79% | 15 | 12.61% | 44 | 14 | 6.19% | 30 | 21.60% |
| castration | 46 | 18.70% | 10 | 8.40% | 56 | 15 | 6.64% | 41 | 29.50% |
| other surgery | 5 | 2.03% | 0 | 0.00% | 5 | 3 | 1.33% | 2 | 1.40% |
| other consult | 5 | 2.03% | 3 | 2.52% | 8 | 6 | 2.65% | 2 | 1.40% |
| none | 9 | 3.66% | 7 | 5.88% | 16 | 9 | 3.98% | 7 | 5.00% |