4.1 Overview of surveillance design

We will start by looking at an overview of the key points that you need to consider when designing a surveillance strategy. These are outlined below, and in Figure 13:

• Surveillance purpose: Why do we need to do the surveillance? What is the overall aim?
• Surveillance system: What is the most appropriate type of surveillance system to use to achieve our surveillance purpose?
• Surveillance objective: What are the goals we need to achieve to meet the purpose of our surveillance?
• Surveillance components: What activities will our surveillance system include? (Elements for the design of a surveillance components are explained in Section 4.3.)
• Documentation: How will we document our surveillance system?
• Evaluation: How will we evaluate our surveillance system?

Figure 13 Overview of the main points to consider when designing a sampling strategy for AMR surveillance in animals (adapted from RISKSUR [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] ).

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Surveillance design needs to design the relevant surveillance components: that is, the different activities to achieve the surveillance objective. These could include the target population, sources of samples, hazard selection, and sampling frame and sample calculation.

Figure 13 Overview of the main points to consider when designing a sampling strategy for AMR surveillance in animals (adapted from RISKSUR).