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

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 demonstrated by the detection of statistically significant increases in the number of laboratory submissio...

Vetsyn: Veterinary Syndromic Surveillance Streamlined into one R Package

Introduction The field of veterinary syndromic surveillance (VSS) is developing fast, with countries exploring a great variety of data sources [1]. After implementing two VSS systems we have demonstrated that the steps from classified data to full system implementation can be streamlined, and published a guideline for implementation [2]. All the steps described have been made available in an R ...

Syndromic Surveillance at the New York State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory

Introduction The New York State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (NYSVDL) receives more than 100,000 diagnostic submissions a year that are not currently used in any formal syndromic surveillance system. In 2009, a pilot study of syndrome classification schemes was undertaken and in 2011 a new general submission form was adopted, which includes a check list of syndromes, as part of the clinical...

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

Contracts, benefits, and practice management for the veterinary profession.

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