PMID- 24661927
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160920
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1865-1682 (Electronic)
IS  - 1865-1674 (Linking)
VI  - 63
IP  - 1
DP  - 2016 Feb
TI  - Multicriteria Evaluation of Classical Swine Fever Control Strategies Using the 
      Choquet Integral.
PG  - 68-78
LID - 10.1111/tbed.12220 [doi]
AB  - An outbreak of the highly contagious animal disease classical swine fever (CSF) 
      requires the selection of an optimal control strategy. The choice of a control 
      strategy is a decision process depending on different aspects. Besides 
      epidemiology, economic and ethical/social aspects must be taken into account. In 
      this study, multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) was used to evaluate six control 
      strategies for two regions with different farm densities. A strategy including 
      only the minimum EU control measures and the traditional control strategy based 
      on preventive culling were compared to alternative control strategies using 
      emergency vaccination and/or rapid PCR testing ('emergency vaccination', 'test to 
      slaughter', 'test to control' and 'vaccination in conjunction with rapid 
      testing'). The MACBETH approach was used in order to assess the three main 
      criteria (epidemiology, economics and ethical/social aspects). Subcriteria with 
      both quantitative and qualitative performance levels were translated into a 
      normalized scale. The Choquet integral approach was adopted to obtain a ranking 
      of the six CSF control strategies based on the three main criteria, taking 
      interactions into account. Three different rankings of the importance of the main 
      criteria, which were to reflect the potential perceptions of stakeholders, were 
      examined. Both the region under investigation and the ranking of the main 
      criteria had an influence on the 'best' choice. Alternative control strategies 
      were favourable to the minimum EU control and the traditional control measures 
      independent of the farm density. Because the choice of the 'best' control 
      strategy does not solely depend on the epidemiological efficiency, MCDM can help 
      to find the best solution. Both MACBETH and the Choquet integral approach are 
      feasible MCDM approaches. MACBETH only needs a qualitative evaluation and is 
      therefore a comparatively intuitive approach. The Choquet integral does not only 
      take the importance of the criteria into account but also the interaction between 
      them.
CI  - (c) 2014 Blackwell Verlag GmbH.
FAU - Brosig, J
AU  - Brosig J
AD  - Institute of Animal Breeding and Husbandry, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, 
      Germany.
FAU - Traulsen, I
AU  - Traulsen I
AD  - Institute of Animal Breeding and Husbandry, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, 
      Germany.
FAU - Krieter, J
AU  - Krieter J
AD  - Institute of Animal Breeding and Husbandry, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, 
      Germany.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20140324
PL  - Germany
TA  - Transbound Emerg Dis
JT  - Transboundary and emerging diseases
JID - 101319538
SB  - IM
MH  - Animal Culling/methods
MH  - Animals
MH  - Classical Swine Fever/epidemiology/*prevention & control/transmission
MH  - Computer Simulation
MH  - Contact Tracing/veterinary
MH  - Decision Making
MH  - Disease Outbreaks/prevention & control/*veterinary
MH  - Fuzzy Logic
MH  - *Models, Theoretical
MH  - Swine
MH  - Vaccination/methods/*veterinary
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Choquet integral
OT  - MACBETH
OT  - Multicriteria decision-making
OT  - classical swine fever
OT  - control strategies
EDAT- 2014/03/26 06:00
MHDA- 2016/09/22 06:00
CRDT- 2014/03/26 06:00
PHST- 2013/01/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/03/26 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/03/26 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/09/22 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1111/tbed.12220 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Transbound Emerg Dis. 2016 Feb;63(1):68-78. doi: 10.1111/tbed.12220. Epub 2014 
      Mar 24.