Research setting in regional anaesthesia: a call for action

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesia, Liverpool Hospital, South Western Sydney Clinical Campus, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
² Department of Anesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
³ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and University of Toronto, ON, Canada.

Editorial

Alwin Chuan et al. Anaesthesia. 2025 Apr.

. 2025 Apr;80(4):357-361.

doi: 10.1111/anae.16518. Epub 2024 Dec 10.

¹ Department of Anaesthesia, Liverpool Hospital, South Western Sydney Clinical Campus, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
² Department of Anesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
³ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and University of Toronto, ON, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: outcome measures; priority setting; public patient involvement; regional anaesthesia; research.

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