Nordic veterinarians' threshold for medical treatment of dairy cows, influence on disease recording and medicine use: Mild clinical mastitis as an example

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 112, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 76-89

  Espetvedt, Mari N ^a   Rintakoski, Simo ^b   Wolff, Cecilia ^c   Lind, Ann Kristina ^d   Lindberg, Ann ^e   Virtala, Anna Maija K ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antibiotic; Attitudes; Behavioural intention; Data quality; Theory of Planned Behaviour

Indexed keywords

BOS;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ATTITUDES; BEHAVIOURAL INTENTION; BOVINE MASTITIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; DATA QUALITY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; FINLAND; INFORMATION PROCESSING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCANDINAVIA; THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR; TIME; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANTIBIOTIC; ATTITUDES; BEHAVIOURAL INTENTION; DATA QUALITY; THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOUR;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FINLAND; MASTITIS, BOVINE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCANDINAVIA; TIME FACTORS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

EID: 84882245944     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2013.07.004     Document Type: Article

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