The cochrane collaboration and its worldwide contributions to anaesthesia research and care

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 523-525

  Smith, A F ^a   Cracknell, J ^b   Moller A M ^c   Pace, N L ^d  

^a ROYAL LANCASTER INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^c Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; DROTRECOGIN; PLACEBO;

ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; AUTHOR; BISPECTRAL INDEX; BLEEDING; CHECKLIST; CHRONIC PAIN; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONTRACT; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DENMARK; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDITOR; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FRAUD; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REGISTRATION; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SEPSIS; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TRACHEOSTOMY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84888255806     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aet295     Document Type: Editorial

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