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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-3
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-7-9
pubmed:abstractText
Animal health surveillance systems should reflect national disease control priorities and promote the best use of public resources by maximizing effectiveness and efficiency. A surveillance system should be routinely evaluated to assess the degree to which the system accomplishes these goals, fulfills its stated objectives, and meets accepted surveillance standards. In the United States, there are a number of disparate endemic disease surveillance and eradication programs. The National Animal Health Surveillance System is a federal initiative designed to combine animal health surveillance and monitoring activities into a comprehensive and coordinated system. A protocol has been developed to facilitate the evaluation of animal health surveillance systems and investigate opportunities for coordination between the different surveillance and eradication programs. The evaluation protocol was based largely on protocols developed for public health but adapted for the specific needs and goals of animal health surveillance. The evaluation process was designed to identify program strengths and areas for improvement and facilitate the system's adaptability to changing situations. The evaluation protocol was applied to the scrapie surveillance system in the United States; scrapie surveillance was found to be an important part of surveillance for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Results from the evaluation of sensitivity, sampling methods and representativeness are presented.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0167-5877
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
14
pubmed:volume
81
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
70-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
An evaluation of scrapie surveillance in the United States.
pubmed:affiliation
Centers for Epidemiology and Animal Health (CEAH), U.S. Department of Agriculture, APHIS, VS, Natural Resources Research Center, 2150 Centre Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80526-8117, USA. Tracey.V.Lynn@aphis.usda.gov
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article