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Dam Otten N, Rousing T, Forkman B. Influence of Professional Affiliation on Expert's View on Welfare Measures. Animals (Basel). 2017;7(11)doi: 10.3390/ani7110085.
Dam Otten, N., Rousing, T., & Forkman, B. (2017). Influence of Professional Affiliation on Expert's View on Welfare Measures. Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 7(11), . https://doi.org/10.3390/ani7110085
Dam Otten, Nina, et al. "Influence of Professional Affiliation on Expert's View on Welfare Measures." Animals : an open access journal from MDPI vol. 7,11 (2017). doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani7110085
Dam Otten N, Rousing T, Forkman B. Influence of Professional Affiliation on Expert's View on Welfare Measures. Animals (Basel). 2017 Nov 15;7(11). doi: 10.3390/ani7110085. PMID: 29140262; PMCID: PMC5704114.
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Animals (Basel). 2017 Nov 15;7(11). doi: 10.3390/ani7110085.

Influence of Professional Affiliation on Expert's View on Welfare Measures.

Animals : an open access journal from MDPI

Nina Dam Otten, Tine Rousing, Björn Forkman

Affiliations

  1. Section for Animal Welfare and Disease Control, Department of Veterinary and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark. [email protected].
  2. Epidemiology and Management, Department of Animal Sciences, Aarhus University, 8830 Tjele, Denmark. [email protected].
  3. Section for Animal Welfare and Disease Control, Department of Veterinary and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark. [email protected].

PMID: 29140262 PMCID: PMC5704114 DOI: 10.3390/ani7110085

Abstract

The present study seeks to investigate the influence of expert affiliation in the weighing procedures within animal welfare assessments. Experts are often gathered with different backgrounds with differing approaches to animal welfare posing a potential pitfall if affiliation groups are not balanced in numbers of experts. At two time points (2012 and 2016), dairy cattle and swine experts from four different stakeholder groups, namely researchers (RES), production advisors (CONS), practicing veterinarians (VET) and animal welfare control officers (AWC) were asked to weigh eight different welfare criteria:

Keywords: animal welfare; expert opinion; stakeholders

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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