Veterinary syndromic surveillance: current initiatives and potential for development

FC Dórea, J Sanchez, CW Revie - Preventive veterinary medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper reviews recent progress in the development of syndromic surveillance systems
for veterinary medicine. Peer-reviewed and grey literature were searched in order to identify …

Animal health syndromic surveillance: a systematic literature review of the progress in the last 5 years (2011–2016)

FC Dórea, F Vial - Veterinary Medicine: Research and Reports, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This review presents the current initiatives and potential for development in the field of
animal health surveillance (AHSyS), 5 years on from its advent to the front of the veterinary …

Syndromic surveillance using veterinary laboratory data: data pre-processing and algorithm performance evaluation

FC Dórea, BJ McEwen, WB McNab… - Journal of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Diagnostic test orders to an animal laboratory were explored as a data source for monitoring
trends in the incidence of clinical syndromes in cattle. Four years of real data and over 200 …

Syndromic surveillance using veterinary laboratory data: algorithm combination and customization of alerts

FC Dórea, BJ McEwen, WB McNab, J Sanchez… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Syndromic surveillance research has focused on two main themes: the search
for data sources that can provide early disease detection; and the development of efficient …

Investigating the potential of reported cattle mortality data in Switzerland for syndromic surveillance

R Struchen, M Reist, J Zinsstag, F Vial - Preventive veterinary medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Systems for the identification and registration of cattle have gradually been
receiving attention for use in syndromic surveillance, a relatively recent approach for the …

Methodological challenges to multivariate syndromic surveillance: a case study using Swiss animal health data

F Vial, W Wei, L Held - BMC veterinary research, 2016 - Springer
Background In an era of ubiquitous electronic collection of animal health data, multivariate
surveillance systems (which concurrently monitor several data streams) should have a …

Devising an indicator to detect mid-term abortions in dairy cattle: a first step towards syndromic surveillance of abortive diseases

A Bronner, E Morignat, V Hénaux, A Madouasse… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Bovine abortion surveillance is essential for human and animal health because it plays an
important role in the early warning of several diseases. Due to the limited sensitivity of …

Syndromic surveillance using laboratory test requests: A practical guide informed by experience with two systems

FC Dórea, A Lindberg, BJ McEwen, CW Revie… - Preventive veterinary …, 2014 - Elsevier
Syndromic surveillance systems can enhance early disease warning, endemic disease
monitoring, or help to accumulate proof of disease freedom. In order to provide immediate …

Detection of events in multiple streams of surveillance data: Multivariate, multi-stream and multi-dimensional approaches

A Dubrawski - … informatics and biosurveillance: research, systems and …, 2010 - Springer
Chapter Overview Simultaneous monitoring of multiple streams of data that carry
corroborating evidence can be beneficial in many event detection applications. This chapter …

Directionally sensitive multivariate control charts in practice: Application to biosurveillance

I Yahav, G Shmueli - Quality and Reliability Engineering …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Multivariate control charts are used for monitoring multiple series simultaneously, for the
purpose of detecting shifts in the mean vector in any direction. In the context of disease …