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Affiliations

¹ From the Department of General Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (D.E.); Melbourne Children's Trials Centre (A.J.D.), Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (D.E.), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (D.E.); Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, and Intensive Care, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland (L.V.); Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland (L.V.); and Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (A.J.D.).

Editorial

Daryl Efron et al. Anesthesiology. 2017 Aug.

. 2017 Aug;127(2):209-211.

doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000001736.

¹ From the Department of General Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (D.E.); Melbourne Children's Trials Centre (A.J.D.), Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (D.E.), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (D.E.); Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, and Intensive Care, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland (L.V.); Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland (L.V.); and Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (A.J.D.).

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Association between Exposure of Young Children to Procedures Requiring General Anesthesia and Learning and Behavioral Outcomes in a Population-based Birth Cohort.
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