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Response to Protocol Review Scenario: All references are not created equal

Lab Animal volume 45, pages 287–288 (2016)Cite this article

We assume that Waite's research is PHS-funded; as such, statements in the PHS Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals regarding protocol content are crucial to answering whether the IACUC staff gave her correct information. The policy states that “the IACUC shall confirm that the research project ... is consistent with the Guide ”1.

The Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals describes protocol content as “a detailed description of the proposed use of laboratory animals. The following topics should be considered in the preparation of the protocol by the researcher and its review by the IACUC: a clear and concise sequential description of the procedures involving the use of animals that is easily understood by all members of the committee...impact of the proposed procedures on the animal's well-being...appropriate sedation, analgesia and anesthesia”2.

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  1. Public Health Service. Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. (US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC, 1986; amended 2002).

  2. Institute for Laboratory Animal Research. Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals 8th edn. (National Academies Press, Washington, DC, 2011).

  3. Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare. Frequently asked questions PHS policy on humane care and use of laboratory animals. National Institutes of Health Office of Extramural Research. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/faqs.htm#630 (2016).

  4. National Institutes of Health. NOT-OD-14-126: Guidance on significant changes to animal activities. National Institutes of Health Office of Extramural Research. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-14-126.html (2014).

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  1. Lewis and Barnett are Protocol Advisors and Liaisons, PAM Program, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX.,

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Lewis, J., Barnett, J. Response to Protocol Review Scenario: All references are not created equal. Lab Anim 45, 287–288 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/laban.1065

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