Ever wish you had a road map to saving more lives in your shelter? Gathering and understanding data will provide you with exactly that.

In “Magical Metrics and Dazzling Data: How Medical Fact-Finding Guides Shelters to Improved Animal Health,” Dr. Jan Scarlett, Director of Maddie’s® Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, discusses the collection and use of medical data in animal shelters, and how this can significantly improve the health of individual animals and the shelter population.
You’ll learn to:

• Identify disease outbreaks
• Monitor disease trends over time
• Evaluate the effectiveness of changes in disease management protocols
• Identify groups at high risk of disease
• Identify high risk periods for disease in sheltersCorrelate disease with shelter census, length of stay and shelter location

You can review the presentation, and also find information on obtaining RACE and CAWA
continuing education credit for veterinary and shelter professionals, here.