An approach to identify bias in scent detection dog testing

摘要: Numerous scientific studies show the increasing importance of trained scent detection dogs in a wide field application. Methods used for testing are heterogeneous and therefore susceptible potential bias. Nevertheless, no accepted quality standards or adequate guidelines performing have been published peer-reviewed literature yet. Therefore objective this systematic review was to evaluate publications on dog including test procedures identify methodological issues that could potentially bias confound study outcome. Using databases Pubmed (www.pubmed.gov) CAB (http://ovidsp.tx.ovid.com), research conducted 23th July 2015 find work dogs. Additional were recruited through supplementary hand search. After specific exclusion process, 54 left final evaluation. Factors influencing outcome with identified. We critically analyzed how authors discussed flaws. Finally, we able condense information into best practice standard regarding target odour, type task experimental set-up, samples training testing, design, trainer procedure breeds.