Development and Application of a Prioritization Tool for Animal Health Surveillance Activities in Ireland.

ABSTRACT: Decisions around animal health management by stakeholders are often subject to resource limitation, therefore prioritization processes are required to evaluate whether effort is attributed appropriately. The objectives of this study were to develop and apply a surveillance prioritization process for animal health surveillance activities in Ireland. An exploratory sequential mixed research methods design was utilized. A prioritization tool was developed for surveillance activities and implemented over two phases. During the first phase, a survey was conducted which asked stakeholders to prioritize diseases/conditions by importance for Irish agriculture. In the second phase, experts identified the most important surveillance objectives, and allocated resources to the activities that they con

SUBMITTER: Clarke A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7785526 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature