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[WOAH diagnostic manual](https://www.woah.org/app/uploads/2021/03/3-04-05-bse-1.pdf)", "Distinguish C-type from H-type and L-type using laboratory characterisation, rather than age or feed history alone. [WOAH diagnostic manual](https://www.woah.org/app/uploads/2021/03/3-04-05-bse-1.pdf)", "Separate classical BSE's contaminated-feed association from atypical BSE's presumed spontaneous occurrence; do not assign an individual case's origin solely from that general distinction. [WOAH BSE overview](https://www.woah.org/en/disease/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy/)", "Keep human vCJD as a related disease, not a synonym or bovine case subtype. 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[WOAH BSE chapter](https://www.woah.org/fileadmin/Home/eng/Health_standards/tahc/2024/en_chapitre_bse.htm)", "questions": [ { "text": "What bovine host and disease evidence place this record within BSE?", "kind": "definition", "id": "bovine-prion-disease-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Does the record describe disease, exposure, a clinical suspect or an administrative case classification?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bovine-prion-disease-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classical-and-atypical-classification", "name": "Classical and atypical classification", "description": "Preserve the distinction among C-type, H-type and L-type and unresolved results.", "findings": [ { "id": "laboratory-supported-type", "name": "Laboratory-supported type", "description": "Classical and atypical phenotypes are distinguished through laboratory characterisation, including Western immunoblot patterns. [WOAH diagnostic manual](https://www.woah.org/app/uploads/2021/03/3-04-05-bse-1.pdf)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which laboratory report supports C-type, H-type or L-type classification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "laboratory-supported-type-q01" }, { "text": "What uncertainty or conflicting result requires the type to remain unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "laboratory-supported-type-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "clinical-course-and-confirmation", "name": "Clinical course and confirmation", "description": "Connect observed neurological changes to appropriately qualified diagnostic conclusions.", "rationale": "An agent must recognise suspicion without mistaking clinical appearance for confirmation.", "layers": [ { "id": "neurological-presentation", "name": "Neurological presentation", "description": "Capture onset, progression and competing explanations for observed signs.", "findings": [ { "id": "progressive-signs-with-differentials", "name": "Progressive signs with differentials", "description": "Incoordination, difficulty rising and behavioural changes can accompany BSE; record their chronology and veterinary interpretation. [FDA BSE overview](https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/animal-health-literacy/all-about-bse-mad-cow-disease)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which neurological changes were observed, by whom, and how did they progress?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "progressive-signs-with-differentials-q01" }, { "text": "Which alternative explanations have been assessed, and what remains unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "progressive-signs-with-differentials-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "postmortem-diagnostic-evidence", "name": "Postmortem diagnostic evidence", "description": "Track specimens and testing from initial result to final interpretation.", "findings": [ { "id": "specimen-dependent-confirmation", "name": "Specimen-dependent confirmation", "description": "Confirmation relies on detecting disease-associated prion protein in brain tissue; clinical assessment of a living animal does not provide equivalent confirmation. [WOAH diagnostic manual](https://www.woah.org/app/uploads/2021/03/3-04-05-bse-1.pdf)", "questions": [ { "text": "What brain region, specimen condition, assay and laboratory support the result?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "specimen-dependent-confirmation-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence support confirmation, further testing or only a qualified negative result?", "kind": "action", "id": "specimen-dependent-confirmation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "origin-and-exposure-investigation", "name": "Origin and exposure investigation", "description": "Reconstruct plausible acquisition pathways and epidemiological links without overstating causation.", "rationale": "Classical and atypical BSE require different origin interpretations, while both require accountable case investigation.", "layers": [ { "id": "feed-pathway-reconstruction", "name": "Feed pathway reconstruction", "description": "Connect classical BSE investigations to historical feeding and supply records.", "findings": [ { "id": "contaminated-feed-hypothesis", "name": "Contaminated feed hypothesis", "description": "Classical BSE is associated with ingestion of prion-contaminated feed; a case-specific source attribution still requires evidence. 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[WOAH BSE overview](https://www.woah.org/en/disease/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which official decision establishes the claimed status, for what territory and date?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-status-and-case-definition-q01" }, { "text": "How does the applicable framework treat classical and atypical detections?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dated-status-and-case-definition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "case-control-and-exposure-prevention", "name": "Case control and exposure prevention", "description": "Connect case evidence to authorised action and accountable management of potentially affected material.", "rationale": "The operational value of recognising BSE is preventing further exposure while preserving evidence and authority.", "layers": [ { "id": "veterinary-authority-response", "name": "Veterinary authority response", "description": "Track escalation, decisions and completion under the applicable BSE response framework.", "findings": [ { "id": "case-response-authority", "name": "Case response authority", "description": "BSE has no available treatment or preventive vaccine; response records therefore need explicit veterinary decisions and control responsibilities. [FDA BSE overview](https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/animal-health-literacy/all-about-bse-mad-cow-disease)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which current jurisdictional rule determines notification and response for this case classification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "case-response-authority-q01" }, { "text": "Which competent authority owns the next action, and what evidence will establish its completion?", "kind": "action", "id": "case-response-authority-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-disposition-and-human-interface", "name": "Material disposition and human interface", "description": "Account for potentially affected tissues and connect exposure concerns to the appropriate investigation.", "findings": [ { "id": "food-and-feed-exposure-accountability", "name": "Food and feed exposure accountability", "description": "The link between the classical BSE agent and human vCJD makes food-chain exposure relevant, while human disease assessment remains outside this model. [WOAH diagnostic manual](https://www.woah.org/app/uploads/2021/03/3-04-05-bse-1.pdf)", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are the carcass and derived materials, and what records verify their hold, exclusion or disposal?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "food-and-feed-exposure-accountability-q01" }, { "text": "Does possible distribution require an authority-led feed, food or public-health investigation?", "kind": "action", "id": "food-and-feed-exposure-accountability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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"authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a bovine spongiform encephalopathy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a bovine spongiform encephalopathy, by which method, and when was it true?", 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classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a bovine spongiform encephalopathy, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a bovine spongiform encephalopathy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a bovine spongiform encephalopathy from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ 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by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a bovine spongiform encephalopathy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a bovine spongiform encephalopathy says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What 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"method", "name": "Method and evidence", "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "method-record", "name": "Methods and standards of evidence", "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.", "questions": [ { "id": "method-record-q01", "text": "By what methods does bovine spongiform encephalopathy establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "method-record-q02", "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-and-classification", "name": "Institutions and classification", "description": "Where bovine spongiform encephalopathy is practised and how catalogues place it.", "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions", "name": "Institutional markers", "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.", "findings": [ { "id": "institution-record", "name": "Bodies and venues", "description": "Where the field organises itself.", "questions": [ { "id": "institution-record-q01", "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark bovine spongiform encephalopathy as an established field?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "institution-record-q02", "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification", "name": "Classification schemes", "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-record", "name": "Codes and their disagreements", "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.", "questions": [ { "id": "classification-record-q01", "text": "Which classification schemes place bovine spongiform encephalopathy, under what codes?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classification-record-q02", "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a bovine spongiform encephalopathy came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a bovine spongiform encephalopathy and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": 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