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... . The performance approach requires professional input, sound judgment, and a team approach to achieve specific goals." Performance standards facilitate good science and animal welfare, explained roundtable CoͲChair Lynn Anderson, Vice President for Global Animal Welfare and Comparative Medicine at Covance Laboratories, and they allow individuals and teams to apply sound judgment, professionalism, and expertise to the problem at hand.
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... Invited speakers at the workshop addressed the challenges of defining, developing, implementing, assessing, and validating performance standards to ensure "optimal practices, management, and operations." Expected outcomes of this workshop included: x Interactive sessions for the workshop attendees to draft a mock performance standard on postͲapproval monitoring (PAM) of ongoing research projects with laboratory animals, to better understand the process involved in the development and implementation of performance standards; x Opportunities for the workshop audience to discuss ways to share performance standards; and x A rapporteurͲprepared summary of the presentations and discussions at the workshop.
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... Chapter 5 summarizes the detailed steps involved in the development and implementation of performance standards and includes some examples of how one institution designs new performance standards. Chapter 6 presents the results of the breakout sessions during which working groups drafted a mock performance standard on PAM for ongoing research projects with laboratory animals.


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