Translations:Advanced Field Epi:Manual 1 - Disease Investigation/305/en
The term outcome refers to whether or not an animal is recorded as a case (disease present) or non-case (disease absent). Information is provided in the Basic Field Epidemiology Manual about development of the case definition and the use of the definition in conjunction with clinical examination and possibly laboratory tests or other information of animals to assign animals to confirmed case, suspect case and non-case categories.