The Institution also accepts as mandatory the PHS Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals by Awardee Institutions and NIH Principles for the Utilization and Care of Vertebrate Animals Used in Testing, Research, and Training.
The Institution also accepts as mandatory the PHS Policy on Humane Care and Use off Laboratory Animals and NIHH "Principles for the Utilization and Care of Vertebrate Animals Used in Testing, Research and Training.
All procedures involving experiments vertebrate animals received prior approval of the Nathan S. Kline Institute Animal Care and Use Committee, in accord with the provisions of the PHS "Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals" and the "Principles for the Utilization and Care of Vertebrate Animals".
Government Principles for the Utilization and Care of Vertebrate Animals Used in Testing, Research, and Training, The Animal Welfare Act, As Amended, The Public Health Service (PHS) Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, Virginia Tech Policiess Governing the Use of Animals in Research and Teaching".
All procedures were performed in accordance with the US Government Principle for the Utilization and Care of Vertebrate Animals and were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at the University of Florida.
The procedures and experiments involving use of mice were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and are consistent with the NIH Principles for the Utilization and Care of Vertebrate Animals Used in Testing, Research and Education, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and the Animal Welfare Act National Academy Presss, Washington, DC).
Moreover, doctor visits and the number of nights in hospital are proxies for the utilization of health care.
Concentration indexes for health care utilization and health care needs were constructed via probit regression of individual utilization of public health care services, controlling for age, sex, and NCDs.
In 1973, Andersen and Newman [ 17] proposed a framework for evaluating the utilization of health care.
The reason is that the regression controlled for patient characteristics that can affect the utilization of care.
The utilization of nursing care was rather low with 0.9% for formal and 1.7% for informal care.
