tailieunhanh - The Welfare of Animals Part 9

Nhiều thí nghiệm không sử dụng số chính xác của động vật để kiểm tra giả thuyết của họ (McCance, 1995). Hai phần ba của bài báo xuất bản trên Tạp chí thú y Úc, ví dụ, cho thấy sai sót thống kê, gần 10% sử dụng động vật quá ít để chứng minh hay bác bỏ giả thuyết của họ (McCance, 1995). | 180 10 Animals in Research Many experiments do not use the correct number of animals to test their hypotheses McCance 1995 . Two thirds of articles published in the Australian Veterinary Journal for example show statistical flaws and nearly 10 used too few animals to prove or disprove their hypothesis McCance 1995 . The work may still be useful to be published if repeated experiments can be linked through a statistical combination of several experiments or meta-analysis Phillips 2005b . However inadequate attention to statistical design leads to wasteful use of the animals in research. The process of ethical approval by institutional panels is time-consuming and sometimes underfunded relying largely on volunteer labour and a skeleton staff for administrative and clerical matters. However it has the advantage over governmental processes in that some recognition is given to the views of the public and those members of activist organizations concerned about the welfare of research animals. The failure of some institutional ethical review processes to include members of the public or activist groups such as the new ethical review system started in Iran S. Aldavood personal communication will need to be addressed if it is to be credible internationally. The processes can be accelerated by using documented standard procedures which can be referred to in applications. In theory this should give more time for discussion of the ethical merits of the work but in practice it is likely that this will still be assumed to be acceptable. There s also a risk that the assessors will be desensitised to the procedures by seeing them referred to just as a code or reference number and they may not adequately consider the relevance of the procedures to the specific experiments being evaluated. If they are used these documented procedures must be regularly reviewed so that when an improved technique becomes available its use is rapidly made known. After these general considerations .