Authors' reply to Whitlock and Saied and colleagues

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
² INSERM Research Center for Epidemiology and Biostatistics (U897)-Team Neuroepidemiology, Bordeaux, France.
³ Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA meikermann@partners.org.

Comment

Karim Ladha et al. BMJ. 2015.

. 2015 Sep 30:351:h5143.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.h5143.

¹ Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
² INSERM Research Center for Epidemiology and Biostatistics (U897)-Team Neuroepidemiology, Bordeaux, France.
³ Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA meikermann@partners.org.

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