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. 2014 Jul 1;122(7):A188–A191. doi: 10.1289/ehp.122-A188

NINDS’s Streamlined Recommendations for Reporting Standards.

NINDS’s Streamlined Recommendations for Reporting Standards

Randomization

  • Animals should be assigned randomly to various experimental groups and the method of randomization reported.
  • Data should be collected and processed randomly or appropriately blocked.

Blinding

  • Allocation concealment: the investigator should be unaware of the group to which the next animal taken from a cage will be allocated.
  • Blinded conduct of the experiment: animal caretakers and investigators conducting the experiments should be blinded to the allocation sequence.
  • Blinded assessment of outcome: investigators assessing, measuring, or quantifying experimental outcomes should be blinded to the intervention.