The Ohio Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory has successfully adopted Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory "Disease Diagnostic Codes" developed by Iowa State University.
A Swine Health Information Center funded project has resulted in the successful adoption by the Ohio Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory of Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Disease Diagnostic Codes developed by Iowa State University.
SHIC Executive Director Dr. Lisa Becton says the goal of the project was to make better use of diagnostic data when assessing trends for disease detection on a case basis, rather than just looking at PCR results.
Quote-Dr. Lisa Becton-Swine Health Information Center:
When tissue cases are submitted, a lot of times there is information that is provided by the attending veterinarian that is not always in a standardized framework.
The system that Iowa State University VDL developed provides for a standardized coding framework and this is important because it allows further capture of the different pieces of information and disease trends just beyond pathogen detection alone.
So, it has things like the clinical history of the case submitted, pathology results and other laboratory testing results that are performed by the diagnostician.
These codes identify a wide range of common occurring swine pathogens.
The data is collected in a standardized method for confirmed tissue diagnosis.
The information collected includes the affected body system, insult type disease lesions, disease processes, or etiology, or the cause of disease.
So, very vital information that helps to describe what the case is in a pig.
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