A randomized field trial to reduce sales of intramammary antimicrobials in veterinary practices
Contact Person: Valerie Pucken
Duration: 2015 - 2019
Antimicrobial usage in dairy herds is mainly because of intramammary applications. The aim of this project will be to investigate an intervention at veterinary practice level to decrease the sales of intramammary antimicrobials to dairy herds in a pragmatic randomized field trial. Veterinarians will be supported in transitioning from curative individual patient care to preventive herd health management.
Staff involved: Gertraud Schüpbach (VPHI), Valerie Pucken, Michèle Bodmer, and Adrian Steiner (Ruminants Clinic, University of Bern)
Funding source: Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office
Duration: September 2015 – end of 2019
