Development of Reporting Guidelines for Animal Health Surveillance—AHSURED
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Development of Reporting Guidelines for Animal Health Surveillance—AHSURED. / Comin, Arianna; Grewar, John; Schaik, Gerdien van; Schwermer, Heinzpeter; Paré, Julie; El Allaki, Farouk; Drewe, Julian A.; Lopes Antunes, Ana Carolina; Estberg, Leah; Horan, Michael; Calvo-Artavia, Francisco F.; Jibril, Abdurrahman Hassan; Martínez-Avilés, Marta; Van der Stede, Yves; Antoniou, Sotiria Eleni; Lindberg, Ann.
I: Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Bind 6, 426, 2019.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Development of Reporting Guidelines for Animal Health Surveillance—AHSURED
AU - Comin, Arianna
AU - Grewar, John
AU - Schaik, Gerdien van
AU - Schwermer, Heinzpeter
AU - Paré, Julie
AU - El Allaki, Farouk
AU - Drewe, Julian A.
AU - Lopes Antunes, Ana Carolina
AU - Estberg, Leah
AU - Horan, Michael
AU - Calvo-Artavia, Francisco F.
AU - Jibril, Abdurrahman Hassan
AU - Martínez-Avilés, Marta
AU - Van der Stede, Yves
AU - Antoniou, Sotiria Eleni
AU - Lindberg, Ann
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - 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 descriptions. Reporting guidelines come from the field of evidence-based medicine and their aim is to improve consistency and quality of information reported in scientific journals. They usually consist of a checklist of items to be reported, a description/definition of each item, and an explanation and elaboration document. Examples of well-reported items are frequently provided. Additionally, it is common to make available a website where the guidelines are documented and maintained. This first version of the AHSURED guidelines consists of a checklist of 40 items organized in 11 sections (i.e., surveillance system building blocks), which is available as a wiki at https://github.com/SVA-SE/AHSURED/wiki. The choice of a wiki format will allow for further inputs from surveillance experts who were not involved in the earlier stages of development. This will promote an up-to-date refined guideline document.
AB - 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 descriptions. Reporting guidelines come from the field of evidence-based medicine and their aim is to improve consistency and quality of information reported in scientific journals. They usually consist of a checklist of items to be reported, a description/definition of each item, and an explanation and elaboration document. Examples of well-reported items are frequently provided. Additionally, it is common to make available a website where the guidelines are documented and maintained. This first version of the AHSURED guidelines consists of a checklist of 40 items organized in 11 sections (i.e., surveillance system building blocks), which is available as a wiki at https://github.com/SVA-SE/AHSURED/wiki. The choice of a wiki format will allow for further inputs from surveillance experts who were not involved in the earlier stages of development. This will promote an up-to-date refined guideline document.
KW - animal health surveillance
KW - expert elicitation
KW - harmonization
KW - output-based standards
KW - reporting guidelines
U2 - 10.3389/fvets.2019.00426
DO - 10.3389/fvets.2019.00426
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 31828080
AN - SCOPUS:85076713653
VL - 6
JO - Frontiers in Veterinary Science
JF - Frontiers in Veterinary Science
SN - 2297-1769
M1 - 426
ER -
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