Expert judgement and re-elicitation for prion disease risk uncertainties

International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management

Volumn 16, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 48-77

  Tyshenko, Michael G ^a   ElSaadany, Susie ^b   Oraby, Tamer ^a   Darshan, Shalu ^a   Catford, Angela ^b   Aspinall, Willy ^c,d   Cooke, Roger ^e   Krewski, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c ASPINALL AND ASSOCIATES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood safety; Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Expert elicitation; Iatrogenic transmission; Risk assessment; Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863204691     PISSN: 14668297     EISSN: 17415241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJRAM.2012.047552     Document Type: Article

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