Lessons Learned from SHIC’s Standardized Outbreak Investigation Program to Date

The Swine Health Information Center’s?Standardized Outbreak Investigation Program (SOIP) includes a downloadable Word-based form and a web-based application to conduct standardized outbreak investigations. The program and tools were developed in response to an industry need for consistency in data collection and results across different investigators, outbreaks, and farms. Prompted and funded by SHIC, the web-based application has been available for nearly two years after development by pr