Relative effectiveness of Irish factories in the surveillance of slaughtered cattle for visible lesions of tuberculosis, 2005-2007

Table 1 The crude and adjusted risk of submitting lesions, and their ranking (low to high) for submission, by factory in Ireland during 2005-2007

All animals from the attested herds				Animals from attested herds with complete data for compounding factors
Factory	Number Slaughtered	Crude Risk (%)	Crude Rank	Number Slaughtered	Adjusted Risk (%)	Adjusted Rank	Crude Risk (%)	Crude Rank
1	29231	0.03	2	24779	0.04	3	0.03	3
2	137742	0.26	20	112028	0.28	16	0.25	21
3	136518	0.20	18	99086	0.24	12	0.18	13
4	49407	0.14	8	33516	0.20	9	0.13	8
5	147355	0.08	3	116494	0.11	5	0.08	4
6	15879	0.43	35	12421	0.52	34	0.48	36
7	25538	0.39	31	20590	0.49	32	0.37	33
8	142768	0.20	15	115803	0.28	17	0.20	17
9	160647	0.16	10	121531	0.21	10	0.17	11
10	114868	0.34	29	80766	0.44	31	0.34	30
11	135827	0.52	37	92378	0.53	35	0.44	35
12	155054	0.27	22	124544	0.38	24	0.26	23
13	171403	0.40	34	129003	0.51	33	0.37	32
14	164152	0.25	19	127606	0.33	21	0.24	19
15	201262	0.32	27	148133	0.40	27	0.31	28
16	125268	0.14	7	79533	0.13	6	0.14	9
17	228150	0.50	36	151398	0.58	37	0.48	37
18	97409	0.36	30	77355	0.44	30	0.32	29
19	8398	0.39	32	5528	0.39	26	0.36	31
20	176361	0.29	25	124360	0.38	23	0.27	24
21	169143	0.20	17	145281	0.30	18	0.20	18
22	46214	0.20	14	37612	0.23	11	0.16	10
23	155831	0.18	12	118032	0.25	13	0.18	12
24	188027	0.18	11	152370	0.26	14	0.19	14
25	167650	0.27	21	129546	0.32	20	0.25	20
26	11089	0.00	1	7512	0.00	2	0.00	1
27	171193	0.12	5	141637	0.16	8	0.10	6
28	168396	0.27	24	130720	0.36	22	0.25	22
29	195648	0.27	23	143011	0.40	28	0.27	25
30	2459	0.08	4	1099	0.10	4	0.09	5
31	166958	0.32	26	128213	0.39	25	0.29	26
32	3224	0.12	6	2448	0.00	1	0.00	1
33	15479	0.15	9	10325	0.14	7	0.11	7
34	260998	0.19	13	193804	0.27	15	0.19	15
35	137159	0.20	16	116786	0.31	19	0.20	16
36	18378	0.34	28	10420	0.41	29	0.29	27
37	100730	0.39	33	78389	0.53	36	0.38	34
Total	4401813			3344057
Average		0.25			0.31		0.23

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