TY - JOUR
KW - HPAI
KW - risk assessment
KW - online-tool
KW - poultry
KW - Delphi method
KW - biosecurity
AU - B Grabkowsky
AU - F Conraths
AU - A Globig
AU - A Wilke
AU - N Denzin
AB - Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) poses an important threat to poultry farming and the whole value chain. Since biosecurity is a major strategy to reduce the risk of HPAI virus introduction into farms and poultry flocks, a self-assessment tool for farmers concerning their farm-specific biosecurity management was developed. It is based on a questionnaire referring to risk factors retrieved from the literature or elaborated by experts, respectively. The risk factors are related to farm-, biosecurity- and animal health-management. Their epidemiological relevance is expressed through weights that were determined by an expert panel in a two-stage Delphi approach. The overall risk of a farm is estimated as the complementary to the percentage compliance with the measures assuring a maximum biosecurity as represented by the compiled questions and their respective weights.

The tool is offered as a free of charge, open-access web - based tool, the so-called AI-Risikoampel (AI-Risk Traffic Light), an online anonymous risk-check, which does not only allow to elicit farm-specific optimization potentials concerning biosecurity, but also generates a farm-specific to-do list with tasks ranked according to relevance. Biosecurity gaps may thus be closed by the farmer, possibly also in cooperation with a veterinarian or consultant. 

The to-date experience concerning the acceptance of the tool and the user statistics are presented.
BT - Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift
CY - Hannover
DA - 08/2020
DO - 10.2376/1439-0299-2020-17
LA - Englisch
N2 - Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) poses an important threat to poultry farming and the whole value chain. Since biosecurity is a major strategy to reduce the risk of HPAI virus introduction into farms and poultry flocks, a self-assessment tool for farmers concerning their farm-specific biosecurity management was developed. It is based on a questionnaire referring to risk factors retrieved from the literature or elaborated by experts, respectively. The risk factors are related to farm-, biosecurity- and animal health-management. Their epidemiological relevance is expressed through weights that were determined by an expert panel in a two-stage Delphi approach. The overall risk of a farm is estimated as the complementary to the percentage compliance with the measures assuring a maximum biosecurity as represented by the compiled questions and their respective weights.

The tool is offered as a free of charge, open-access web - based tool, the so-called AI-Risikoampel (AI-Risk Traffic Light), an online anonymous risk-check, which does not only allow to elicit farm-specific optimization potentials concerning biosecurity, but also generates a farm-specific to-do list with tasks ranked according to relevance. Biosecurity gaps may thus be closed by the farmer, possibly also in cooperation with a veterinarian or consultant. 

The to-date experience concerning the acceptance of the tool and the user statistics are presented.
PB - Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
PP - Hannover
PY - 2020
T1 - A self-assessment tool to improve poultry farm biosecurity regarding avian influenza
T2 - Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift
TI - A self-assessment tool to improve poultry farm biosecurity regarding avian influenza
TT - Ein Online-Tool zur Selbsteinschätzung der Biosicherheit in Geflügelhaltungen bezüglich aviärer Influenza
VL - 133
SN - 1439-0299
ER -