Disease criteria importance scores by country.

1<p>(H) = human-related characteristic, for example, case-fatality in <i>humans</i>.</p>2<p>(A) = animal-related characteristic, for example, case-fatality in <i>animals</i>.</p>3<p>Relative rank of disease criteria by importance scores for Canadian participants; the Table is presented in order of importance for Canadian participants.</p>4<p>Mean importance score across respondents.</p>5<p>Standard deviation of importance scores across respondents.</p>6<p>Relative rank of disease criteria by importance scores for US participants.</p>7<p><i>t</i>-statistic; <i>d.f</i>. = 1,469.</p>*<p><i>p</i><0.0024 (Bonferroni-corrected <i>p</i>-value cut-off derived from <i>p</i> = 0.05/21).</p>∧<p>Adjusted for unequal variance (identified by the <i>F</i>-test of equality of variances) using the Welch <i>t</i>-test; Satterthwaite’s <i>d.f.</i> = 1,117.19 to 1,468.99.</p><p>Scores in <b>bold</b> indicate disease criteria with statistically significant difference in importance scores between Canada and the US; scores for the country with the highest score (i.e. placed more importance on) are in <b>bold</b>.