title: Technical team approaches to rodent care: cost savings, reduced risk, and improved stewardship.
abstract: With the increasing decentralization of animal care operations, lack of training and higher-density animal rooms make achieving humane assurances difficult. To offset these problems, some facilities have developed centralized animal care programs, including dispersed teams of qualified animal care specialists.
authors.affiliation: Advanced Veterinary Applications, 7307 Nevis Rd., Bethesda, MD 20817. Pathology Associates International (contracted to NINDS NIH). Animal Care Section, Division of Intramural Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Hampshire
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: McNickle
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Davis