VETS7020 Diagnostic Tests

3

Online

Elective

2

After completing this unit, students will be able to:

• understand and describe the biological principles of common tests and how their inherent characteristics affect their accuracy and precision;
• analyse and summarise data from a test evaluation or test comparison study;
• critique published test evaluation studies and describe their strengths and weaknesses considering design and analysis guidelines in the veterinary medical literature;
• incorporate quantitative test results in clinical decision making about an individual animal's disease status;
• interpret test results from prevalence estimation studies involving single and multiple animal populations, from risk factor studies and from disease surveillance systems;
• plan a disease surveillance system or disease survey and select a diagnostic test(s) (considering its strengths and weaknesses) to meet specified surveillance or survey objectives.

• Veterinary Epidemiological Research
  Dohoo, I., Martin, W. and Stryhn, H.,
  AVC, Canada
  
  Suppliers:
  Co-op Bookshop
  UPEI
  
  

• Professor Ian Gardner