About PADRAP for Swine Risk Assessments
This new web-based version of the PRRS Risk Assessment for the Breeding Herd was
unveiled in Ames, Iowa to participants in a training session held November 10 following
the ISU Swine Disease Conference. To help risk assessment and benchmarking become
much more widely utilized, the American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV)
Production Animal Disease Risk Assessment Program (PADRAP) was initiated in 2006.
The web application is a major step forward for the program. The program is committed
to helping establish and support a long-term coordinated, cooperative, and collaborative
epidemiologically-based initiative to manage disease risks faced by the North American
swine industry. AASV and Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, is
working with support from the National Pork Board (NPB), Boehringer Ingelheim
Vetmedica, USDA-APHIS and PRRS-CAP (CREES, NC-229) to develop and support
PADRAP for the swine industry.
This web-based application allows trained veterinarians to submit completed assessments
for breeding herd sites and immediately view risk benchmarking reports for the sites.
Veterinarians can also create and send links to reports to clients or production personnel
for viewing or printing. Additional features include the ability to print surveys so that
assessments may be completed off line. A time saving feature allows veterinarians to
complete multiple assessments simultaneously. This feature is particularly useful when
assessing multiple sites within the same production system where the answers to many of
the questions may be the same for all breeding herd sites. Another time saving feature
allows previously completed assessments to be duplicated and used as the basis for newly
completed assessments. This feature is particularly useful when surveys are repeated
over time for the same breeding herd site or when surveys are being completed for
multiple breeding herd sites that share many of the same operational links, such as boar
studs or trucking.
Currently only the PRRS Risk Assessment for the Breeding Herd is available through the
web application. However, it is designed to easily accommodate risk assessments for
other swine diseases, other stages of production and even other species. Plans are
currently being made to develop PRRS risk assessments for growing pigs and boar studs
which would also be offered through the web application.
For more information on the web version of the PRRS Risk Assessment for the Breeding
Herd, and PADRAP in general, please email aasv@aasv.org or call the AASV office at
515-465-5255.
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