Development of Reporting Guidelines for Animal Health Surveillance-AHSURED.

ABSTRACT: With the current trend in animal health surveillance toward risk-based designs and a gradual transition to output-based standards, greater flexibility in surveillance design is both required and allowed. However, the increase in flexibility requires more transparency regarding surveillance, its activities, design and implementation. Such transparency allows stakeholders, trade partners, decision-makers and risk assessors to accurately interpret the validity of the surveillance outcomes. This paper presents the first version of the Animal Health Surveillance Reporting Guidelines (AHSURED) and the process by which they have been developed. The goal of AHSURED was to produce a set of reporting guidelines that supports communication of surveillance activities in the form of narrative descripti

SUBMITTER: Comin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6890601 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature