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Enhancing Animal Care Protocols: Importance of Scientific Peer Review

Learn about the pivotal role of peer review in ensuring the credibility and quality of animal care protocols. Understand the balance between ethical considerations and scientific benefits in the ACC approvals process. Receive practical recommendations to improve institutional peer review guidelines for better research outcomes.

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Enhancing Animal Care Protocols: Importance of Scientific Peer Review

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  1. Scientific Peer Review for animal care protocol approvals May 7, 2009 Dr. Edwin A. Kroeger University of Manitoba

  2. What’s the issue? • Why should addressing peer review be a priority? • Increasing Industry-initiated research • Increasing entrepreneurship by researchers • It is pivotal to the credibility of every element in our CCAC-based system

  3. What’s the issue? First principles: ACC Approvals process involves balancing: COST (ethical, 3Rs… ACC) Vs BENEFIT (scientific, human, animal… peer review)

  4. Role of ACCs in Peer Review Terms of reference? Expertise? Membership? …credibility?

  5. Impact of ACC peer review • A possibly-true story… • Firefighters fund – burn research • Local academic clinician/departmental/ ACC approval • Research didn’t prosper… whistleblower • Media event – approvals process queried • Discredited: researcher…faculty… institution…CCAC

  6. Serious Recommendations! • ACCs: Insist that evidence of peer review be presented before any protocol is approved …but do not participate in process (conflict-of-interest issue) • CCAC: (Further) develop guidelines for Institutional peer review process

  7. CCAC Guidelines should include: • Arm’s–length criteria (e.g. Research Administration) re: process • Conflict-of-interest criteria • Internal/external reviewer criteria • Quality-of-review criteria, e.g.: • Relevance of animal model • Approach/interpretability of results • Benefits anticipated • Investigator experience/expertise

  8. Thank you!!

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