title: Multidisciplinary and evidence-based method for prioritizing diseases of food-producing animals and zoonoses.
abstract: To prioritize 100 animal diseases and zoonoses in Europe, we used a multicriteria decision-making procedure based on opinions of experts and evidence-based data. Forty international experts performed intracategory and intercategory weighting of 57 prioritization criteria. Two methods (deterministic with mean of each weight and probabilistic with distribution functions of weights by using Monte Carlo simulation) were used to calculate a score for each disease. Consecutive ranking was established. Few differences were observed between each method. Compared with previous prioritization methods, our procedure is evidence based, includes a range of fields and criteria while considering uncertainty, and will be useful for analyzing diseases that affect public health.
authors.affiliation: University of Liege, Liege, Belgium.
authors.forename: Marie-France
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Humblet
authors.forename: Sébastien
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vandeputte
authors.forename: Adelin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Albert
authors.forename: Christiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gosset
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kirschvink
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Haubruge
authors.forename: Fabienne
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fecher-Bourgeois
authors.forename: Paul-Pierre
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Pastoret
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Saegerman
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D000818:Animals; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D005060:Europe; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D059022:Food Safety; D005517:Foodborne Diseases / Q000145:classification*; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D011634:Public Health; D012044:Regression Analysis; D018570:Risk Assessment; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000145:classification* / Q000635:transmission