Table 4.

Use of treatment protocols for health management in preweaned calves on California dairies.

Treatment protocol (presence, content, access, development, and review)	Percent	SE	N*	95% CI
				Lower	Upper
Availability and author of written treatment protocols
Dairies with written or computerized treatment protocol	63.9	62	61	50.9	75.2
Protocol developed by veterinarian	50	8.7	34	33	67
Protocol developed by owner	17.7	6.6	34	7.8	35.2
Protocol developed by owner and veterinarian	30.3	8.1	33	16.6	48.8
Information contained in treatment protocols
Disease definitions	41	8	39	26.3	57.6
Disease specific treatments	66.7	7.7	39	49.9	80.1
Antimicrobial drug use information contained in treatment protocols
Dosage	64.1	7.8	39	47.4	78
Duration	59	79.8	39	42.4	73.7
Withdrawal period	51.3	8.1	39	35.3	67
Not sure of details	0
Other information	5.1	3.6	39	1.2	19.3
Personnel access to protocols
Owner	79	6.7	38	62.4	89.5
Herd manager	57.9	8.1	38	41.2	73
Office staff	5.3	3.7	38	1.2	19.8
Calf manager	57.9	8.1	38	41.2	73
Calf feeder	36.8	7.9	38	22.6	53.8
Nutritionist	10.5	5.1	38	3.82	25.8
Veterinarian	57.9	8.1	38	41.2	73
Calf treatment crew	21.1	6.7	38	10.5	37.6
Schedule for review of treatment protocols
Once to twice a year	51.4	8.33	37	34.9	67.5
Every few years	18.9	6.5	37	9	35.6
I don't know	8.1	4.6	37	2.5	23.3
Othera	24.3	7.15	37	12.8	41.4

The dairies were surveyed for the availability of written or computerized treatment protocols, content, and employee access to treatment protocols.

^aEvery month, when needed or when a problem occurs.

^*A total of 61 respondents answered the question on availability and author of written treatment protocols and the rest of the responses are subset of this group.