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Visualization and application of disease diagnosis codes for population health management using porcine diseases as a model
Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation
  • Giovani Trevisan, Iowa State University
  • Kent J. Schwartz, Iowa State University
  • Eric R. Burrough, Iowa State University
  • Bailey Arruda, Iowa State University
  • Rachel J. Derscheid, Iowa State University
  • Michael C. Rahe, Iowa State University
  • Edison de Souza Magalhães, Iowa State University
  • Marcelo N. Almeida, Iowa State University
  • Rodger G. Main, Iowa State University
  • Daniel C. L. Linhares, Iowa State University
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
3-10-2021
DOI
10.1177%2F1040638721995782
Abstract

Accurate and timely results of diagnostic investigations and laboratory testing guide clinical interventions for the continuous improvement of animal health and welfare. Infectious diseases can severely limit the health, welfare, and productivity of populations of animals. Livestock veterinarians submit thousands of samples daily to veterinary diagnostic laboratories (VDLs) for disease diagnosis, pathogen monitoring, and surveillance. Individual diagnostic laboratory reports are immediately useful; however, aggregated historical laboratory data are increasingly valued by clinicians and decision-makers to identify changes in the health status of various animal populations over time and geographical space. The value of this historical information is enhanced by visualization of trends of agent detection, disease diagnosis, or both, which helps focus time and resources on the most significant pathogens and fosters more effective communication between livestock producers, veterinarians, and VDL professionals. Advances in data visualization tools allow quick, efficient, and often real-time scanning and analysis of databases to inform, guide, and modify animal health intervention algorithms. Value is derived at the farm, production system, or regional level. Visualization tools allow client-specific analyses, benchmarking, formulation of research questions, and monitoring the effects of disease management and precision farming practices. We present here the approach taken to visualize trends of disease occurrence using porcine disease diagnostic code data for the period 2010 to 2019. Our semi-automatic standardized creation of a visualization platform allowed the transformation of diagnostic report data into aggregated information to visualize and monitor disease diagnosis.

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This is a manuscript of an article published as Trevisan, Giovani, Kent J. Schwartz, Eric R. Burrough, Bailey Arruda, Rachel J. Derscheid, Michael C. Rahe, Edison de Souza Magalhães, Marcelo N. Almeida, Rodger G. Main, and Daniel C.L. Linhares. "Visualization and application of disease diagnosis codes for population health management using porcine diseases as a model." Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation (2021). DOI: 10.1177%2F1040638721995782. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.

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Giovani Trevisan, Kent J. Schwartz, Eric R. Burrough, Bailey Arruda, et al.. "Visualization and application of disease diagnosis codes for population health management using porcine diseases as a model" Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation (2021)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/daniel-linhares/79/