Disease criteria importance scores by country.

1(H) = human-related characteristic, for example, case-fatality in humans.2(A) = animal-related characteristic, for example, case-fatality in animals.3Relative rank of disease criteria by importance scores for Canadian participants; the Table is presented in order of importance for Canadian participants.4Mean importance score across respondents.5Standard deviation of importance scores across respondents.6Relative rank of disease criteria by importance scores for US participants.7t-statistic; d.f. = 1,469.*pp-value cut-off derived from p = 0.05/21).∧Adjusted for unequal variance (identified by the F-test of equality of variances) using the Welch t-test; Satterthwaite’s d.f. = 1,117.19 to 1,468.99.Scores in bold 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 bold.