Country-level overview of the relative deviation between TIs calculated with DDDvet, UDDvet, DCDvet or UCDvet based on group treatment data from birth to slaughter (TI200) for a batch of fattening pigs. TI200DDDvet and TI200UDDvet express the percentage of pigs that received a dose of antimicrobials each day, or equivalently, during which percentage of time a pig was treated with antimicrobials in its entire life. The left plot compares TI200DDDvet and TI200UDDvet [(TI200DDDvet–TI200UDDvet)/TI200DDDvet] and the right plot compares TI200DCDvet and TI200UCDvet [(TIDCDvet–TIUCDvet)/TIDCDvet]. A positive deviation indicates that a higher dose was used than defined by ESVAC. To enhance the comparison between the boxplots some outlying observations are not shown. The full black horizontal line at 0% represents no deviation between TIs. The full black line within each box plot represents the median. The whiskers of each box plot (dashed lines) extend to the most extreme data point within the range of 1.5×IQR from the box. Outliers, data points outside the range of the whiskers, are shown as open circles.
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