Evaluation of a Performance-Based Expert Elicitation: WHO Global Attribution of Foodborne Diseases
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Attribution of foodborne pathogens using structured expert elicitation.
OBJECTIVES To estimate the fraction of human cases of enterically transmitted illness by five major pathways (food, environment, direct animal contact, human-human transmission, and travel) and by 11 groups within the food pathway. METHODS Food safety experts were asked to provide their estimates of the most likely range for each of the parameters. Joint probability distributions were created...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149817