Veterinary syndromic surveillance in practice: costs and benefits for governmental organizations

BACKGROUND: We describe a veterinary syndromic surveillance system developed in Sweden based on laboratory test requests. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The system is a desktop application built using free software. RESULTS: Development took 1 year. During the first year of operation, utility was demonstrat...

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Autores principales: Dórea, Fernanda C., Lindberg, Ann, Elvander, Marianne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2015
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Original Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4669311/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26634845
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/iee.v5.29973
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description BACKGROUND: We describe a veterinary syndromic surveillance system developed in Sweden based on laboratory test requests. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The system is a desktop application built using free software. RESULTS: Development took 1 year. During the first year of operation, utility was demonstrated by the detection of statistically significant increases in the number of laboratory submissions. The number of false alarms was considered satisfactory in order to achieve the desired sensitivity. DISCUSSION: Besides the demonstrated benefit for disease surveillance, the system contributed to improving data quality and communication between the diagnostic departments and the epidemiology department.
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spelling pubmed-46693112015-12-23 Veterinary syndromic surveillance in practice: costs and benefits for governmental organizations Dórea, Fernanda C. Lindberg, Ann Elvander, Marianne Infect Ecol Epidemiol Original Research Article BACKGROUND: We describe a veterinary syndromic surveillance system developed in Sweden based on laboratory test requests. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The system is a desktop application built using free software. RESULTS: Development took 1 year. During the first year of operation, utility was demonstrated by the detection of statistically significant increases in the number of laboratory submissions. The number of false alarms was considered satisfactory in order to achieve the desired sensitivity. DISCUSSION: Besides the demonstrated benefit for disease surveillance, the system contributed to improving data quality and communication between the diagnostic departments and the epidemiology department. Co-Action Publishing 2015-12-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4669311/ /pubmed/26634845 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/iee.v5.29973 Text en © 2015 Fernanda C. Dórea et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/iee.v5.29973
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