%0 Generic %A Corrêa Neto, Josué Lopes %A Lorenzo, Cláudio %A Sanchez, Mauro Niskier %D 2017 %T The impact of an ethics committee on animal protection %U https://scielo.figshare.com/articles/dataset/The_impact_of_an_ethics_committee_on_animal_protection/5720980 %R 10.6084/m9.figshare.5720980.v1 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/10053787 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/10053799 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/10053808 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/10053814 %K Ethical review %K Bioethics %K Animal experimentation %K Euthanasia, animal %X

Abstract The creation of animal ethics committees in teaching and research establishes a new ethics in relations with non-human animals. The present article carried out a statistical study of data from 390 research protocols evaluated over eight years by a commission at one Brazilian university, to determine if its actions brought about a reduction in suffering and a proportional decrease in the practice of euthanasia. A statistical significance study was carried out using an extension of the Wilcoxon test, seeking to verify a long-term trend of protection procedures, such as lower predicted levels of stress and pain in protocols, more frequent use of anesthesia and sedatives and a reduction in euthanasia. The results were statistically significant for all three of these items, suggesting a concrete effect of animal protection. The method used is proposed as a form of evaluating the use of these procedures by commissions.

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