TY - JOUR AU - Dórea, Fernanda C. AU - Widgren, Stefan AU - Lindberg, Ann AU - Revie, Crawford W. PY - 2014/03/09 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Development of an R Package for Syndromic Surveillance: Translating Research into Tools for the Veterinary Epidemiologist JF - Online Journal of Public Health Informatics JA - OJPHI VL - 6 IS - 1 SE - Poster Presentations DO - 10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5075 UR - https://ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/ojphi/article/view/5075 SP - AB - We suggest there are currently three main challenges in the development of animal syndromic surveillance: the lack of standards in disease classification, the development of statistical methodologies appropriate to deal with animal data, and the creation of ready-to-use tools that employ these statistical methods. We address the latter by incorporating already developed methods into an easy to use R package that contains all the tools for implementation of an animal syndromic surveillance system; from data retrieval, management and analyses to the construction of a user interface. ER -